It’s been around two months since the inaugural History Through Fiction Conference in Beverly, MA. I previously published a Part One blog po...

Butter yellow may be trending in 2026, but in vogue colors aren’t a new phenomenon. I recently read The King in Yellow , by Robert W. Chamb...

This weekend I had the pleasure of being the keynote speaker and leading a masterclass on what we can learn from Charles Dickens about writi...

After blogging about Finnish Iida Turpeinen’s Beasts of the Sea last month, I’m sticking with the Nordic theme for the next book I’m writin...

Happy 2026 and welcome back to my Neo-Victorian Voices series , in which I review books written in the twenty-first century but set (at leas...