It arrived! And it is gorgeous. This is the face of an author who can't stop grinning, and still can't quite believe it. Thank you Storm Publishing Kathryn Taussig for a dream come true #TheShakespeareSisters #Newbook #HistFicMay #WW2 #amreading Available here: geni.us/50-Storm

The hardest thing to research was probably the politics. I'm not a political animal at all, and the Italian politics of the time was very different to anything I'm familiar with! #HistFicMay

Day 10 of #HistFicMay asks what was the hardest thing to research. For me it's the campaigns where sources are in Spanish, French or Danish. Copenhagen 1807, Tarragona 1811 and Castro Urdiales 1813 were all a challenge though my translating has improved massively.

The best thing to #research? Everything. I love the research! Questioning the county archaeologist was fun and he gave very generously of his time and expertise. Thank you Bill! #HistFicMay Twitter great source too. Thank you Alison Fisk & Durotriges Project

#HistFicMay 10: Found contradictory or incomplete accounts of several things: a man's right jure uxoris to sit in the Lords; the process when succeding to a title; the Queen's drawing room in June 1820. Was there still a pillory at Charing Cross?

#HistFicMay The hardest thing to research was Blackbeard's "unknown" timeline - so much of his life is documented in scattered pieces of facts.

I'm not sure about the hardest thing to research. Since I write speculative fiction, I love gaps in history because I fill them in with my own ideas. I do find animal death quite triggering, so the fire which killed Margaret Tudor's horses was tough to read about. #HistFicMay

#HistFicMay 11. The research gem in my WIP concerns my great-grandfather who died in 1941 when working on this mooring vessel that exploded on a mine in the Grand Harbour #Malta. I also named the protagonist of my WIP after him. #WritingCommunity #HistoricalFiction

#histficmay D11 During the Battle of Stamford Bridge, a lone, unarmoured Viking supposedly blocked the bridge & held off the Anglo-Saxon forces killing about 40 of them. I definitely had to add this scene to The Last Saxon King.

#HistFicMay Day 11 - Research gem. The so-called "Great Emu War" took place in 1932 when the Australian Army attempted to eradicate emus that were destroying crops in the Western Australia Wheatbelt region where Pete grew up. (Spoiler alert: The emus won.)

D11 #HistFicMay: My research gem so far has been the “happy” sound of major chords played on a guitar. Crediting KSJammin (Kevin) with this bit of info and also my introduction to gypsy jazz.🎶🎵

#KindleUnlimited All seven books in the Juniper Junction Cozy Holiday Mystery Series are now available in KU! Not in KU? The first two books will be FREE next week—stay tuned! amazon.com/dp/B07SV5593Q

#HistFicMay Day 16: what's the best thing about your subgenre? #historicalmystery is fabulous because the reader can learn something and solve a murder at the same time. amymreade.com/cape-may-histo… Bwah hah hah.

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#HistFicMay Day 18. What subgenre would I love to write and why? Domestic and psychological suspense because I love to read those books. Can't do it until I've run out of ideas for #hisfic and #mystery! amymreade.com

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Come say hi this weekend! Lots of great vendors and I'll be there with books! @willowcreekwinerynj