That is really interesting.

In the 1930s and 40s, the US Dept of Agriculture published guides on how to spot quality clothing and take care of things you own. The guides were surprisingly sophisticated. This guide on men's suits covered fabrics like gabardine, serge, covert, and tropical worsted.

Manuscript draft of the Secret Garden

The whole thread is a hoot but the first one is my favorite. 😄

🧵The nosegays of SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995): a thread.

A tiny detail that I *love* about this movie is the small bouquets of flowers used in the decor. I'd always liked them, but paying closer attention tonight I spotted them in nearly every other scene!

I hope I may be forgiven a little shameless-plugging this #westernwednesday . To celebrate the release of THE SMOKING IRON AND OTHER STORIES, both my earlier collections are 99¢ on Kindle all month! #westerns #westernwriters

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All right, I feel much better about the legibility of my handwritten drafts now. #classiclit erature #classiclit

Elisabeth's lore:

Age: in spirit I belong to my great-grandparents' generation
Sign: vinyl, for author events
Birthday: mad as the proverbial hare
Height: can't reach the top shelf
Status: eligible
Kids: not yet
Tattoos: nope nope nope
Favorite color: coral

Jane Long is sometimes referred to as 'the mother of Texas.' How tough was this pioneer lady? This tough:

In late 1821, Jane's husband, Dr. James Long, decided that he and a band of about 50 men were going to wrest Texas from Mexican rule, leaving Jane in a small stone fort on

Anybody who follows me should know that my feed swings back and forth regularly between the Old West and the English countryside. It's okay, it's normal, it's just me.

Happy Mother's Day!

To celebrate, take a minute to read (and share) this poem by Christina Rossetti:

Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome
Has many sonnets: so here now shall be
One sonnet more, a love sonnet, from me
To her whose heart is my heart’s quiet home,
To my

Annnnd I did not have 'hastily call up beekeepers to remove swarm of bees from front yard' on my bingo card for this afternoon...

I read a less-than-stellar whodunit yesterday and now I need some Josephine Tey as a palate-cleanser.

TOT reader David Robertson shared this great photo, which comes with an equally great comment. Says David: 'In the summer of 1910, Max Coleman and some other cowboys are eating at the Sam Arnett chuckwagon, camped where Meadow, Texas is today. Ray Savage, the night guard, is

On the path where Keats composed 'Ode to Autumn' just around the corner from the Hospital of St John, the inspiration for the almshouse in Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire. Winchester is idyllic England through and through, the countryside I imagined before I visited the UK.

Another very normal matchday in Köln apparently #effzeh

Currently at #2 in Historical Fiction > Short Stories and #19 in Westerns > Short Stories on the Kindle new release charts! amazon.com/gp/product/B0D… #westerns #westernwriters #historicalf

Oh, how I would like to spend Saturday afternoon in Archias Winters' bookstore on New York Street in 1911...

Serious question: if Gnabry is out of the Euros, does Robin Hack have a shot at the Germany squad?

Writers: does your WIP/story have a theme song? If so, what is it?

Sometimes mine do and sometimes they don't. For my next Western mystery novel it's 'Going Home' by Celtic Woman.