Historical Fiction Research

It's been very Yeatsian out there lately. A glance at any newspaper, or my Facebook feed, is enough to give rise to despair, or at t...

When my husband and I decided to re-create this famous portrait of 15th century composers Guillaume Dufay and Gilles Binchois, little di...

How is a picture frame like point of view in fiction? I love pictures that provide their own frames. Maybe it's a shot through a wi...

Meet the kitty who photobombed the ruins of ancient Malia, a Minoan city on Crete. This little charmer appointed herself our guide, and p...

This is Part 3 of what is now my four-part post about our recent trip to Greece. (Unless it turns into five parts, which is entirely poss...

This post concerns the second phase of our recent trip to Greece. Anyone who missed the bit on Athens can find it here . We picked t...