When I was a child, both my grandfathers filled me with wondrous stories of my Scottish ancestors.Β While at bedtime mum was spinning faerytales and ππͺπππΊ ππ°π’π΅π΄ ππ³πΆπ§π§, my grandfathers used my mind as a repository for history that should not be lost.Β Little did I comprehend they were cultivating my growing imagination, feeding my fascination with the past, and hoping to create the next historian in the family.Β
Category: Historical Fiction
Valerie Woebkenberg β Historical Adventures for Young Readers
Adventure without leaving your backyard is often how I describe my books for young readers. I write to create exciting, interesting, and adventurous stories for children, stories that I hope will spark the imagination of the reader.
J. Schlenker β Weaver of Stories
J. Schlenker, a late-blooming author, lives with her husband out in the splendid center of nowhere in the Kentucky foothills of Appalachia where the only thing to disturb her writing is croaking frogs and the occasional sounds of hay being cut in the fields.
Terry Chambers β My Left-Sided Brain
“I had a farm in . . . ” Well that beginning worked well for Isak Dinesen, but my childhood wasn’t as exotic as living on a farm in British East Africa in 1913.
Lanny D. Tucker – Historical Fiction Novelist
Shortly after noon on Sunday, February 2nd, 2003, Lanny Tucker of Greensburg, Ky., was escorted into the Kentucky Correctional Institution for Women in Pewee Valley, Kentucky.