A Peek at my Writer’s Journey

I like to say I inherited my love of baking and gardening from my mother; a love of horses, reading, and writing from my dad—and the wanderlust gene from both. When I traveled to Southold, L.I., with my mother in 1999 to discover our roots, passions collided: my love of faith, family, travel, history, and writing. Little did I know …

Is Quaker the New Amish?

Is Quaker the new Amish in fiction? I think that would be lovely! I recently participated on a panel at a writer’s conference where the question what do you think is the next hot genre in historical fiction? was asked. Having read Suzanne Woods Fisher’s Phoebe’s Light, the first book in her exciting Nantucket Legacy series, I suggested just that – …

A Degree of Separation?

Have you ever experienced what seemed a degree of separation? It felt too amazing to be a coincidence? It happened to me as I chatted with my seatmate on my return flight to Washington state from Virginia, and while it may have been a degree of separation – multi-layered actually – it was definitely a God thing. I recently traveled …

From Mowsley, England to Southold, Long Island, NY

Last fall I had the incredible opportunity to visit Mowsley, England and speak at St. Nicholas, the 13th century church my ancestor, Barnabas Horton, would have been baptized at in July of 1600. He later wed Mary Horton, and though the records no longer exist, it was very likely at the same Anglican church. Mary and Barnabas, my ninth great-grandparents, …

A LOUIS L’AMOUR STYLE WESTERN ROMANCE by HOWARD WORLEY

While a Louis L’Amour style western romance is a departure from the inspirational historical fiction I usually review, the inspiration is there. I’ve known the author all of my life. He is my dad. And if I ever thought it was too late to accomplish a goal or realize a dream, he has blown those excuses away like so many …