In Victorian England, Lizzie Parker wants to keep her life simple and uncomplicated. She loves the people of her village, tending her garden, and caring for her aging father, the local pastor. She falls in love with her father’s curate, but her father has grander hopes for his only daughter.  read more »

Hazel Statham, author of My Dearest Friend, gives advice to new writers in a guest post at http://storycrafters.blogspot.com.

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If you ask any author of historical fiction, they will tell you the most important aspect of writing novel steeped in history is the research. Readers of historical fiction want the authors to transport them to another time and era. They want to visualize and experience everything about a particular century or country of long ago.  read more »

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The town we lived in while residing in Louisiana was a very old hamlet. Most of the houses in our neighborhood were built in the early to mid-1800’s. The whole area was an historical district with most of the houses being on the National Register of Historic Places, including ours. It was a great area to live.  read more »