In my novel ‘Rebel Liar,’ a novel of British spying during the American civil war, one of the characters wonders…

Just a few thoughts on shooting a promotional video to publicise a historical novel and posting it on social media…

This epitaph, ‘for your tomorrow we gave our today,’ was published on a Confederate page relating to the American civil…

How to use a description which might not have been in use during the period you are writing about?

I can’t decide whether to use the American civil war era Confederate flag on the book cover for a novel…

Selecting a name for a road or street in Virginia during the American civil war created a pretty interesting problem….

This is a pretty good way of writing character description, or more specifically introducing a character by name. I call…

  Captain Bowen decided that he had punished the Union agent who was imprisoned in the hold of his ship…

Captain Samuel Bowen, master of the schooner ‘Harbinger,’ moved across the deck and opened a door which revealed a flight…

It’s interesting how description can determine what a character is like, what his attitude is, as I discovered when I…