Historical Fiction Research

(or: How to Distinguish Fake News Six and a Half Centuries Before Snopes) Your long-AWOL blogger is back, once again bringing y...

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...