The Battlefield as Heroin
When you think of all the things people might get addicted to, war isn’t the first thing that springs to mind. But as one of
When you think of all the things people might get addicted to, war isn’t the first thing that springs to mind. But as one of
When planning for the 2018 release of her novel Between Silk and Sand, Marissa Doyle knew she wanted certain things on the cover. Moreover, she
When my great great great grandparents Rachel Starr and Jacob Strader reached Vermilion County, Illinois in the autumn of 1822, they had multiple households of
Once I had delved into genealogy thoroughly enough, I began enjoying one of the rewards I would have missed if I had invested myself in
Old Dogs Do Learn New Tricks I am sixty-eight years old. That means I’m at the point where age alone is enough to affect my
Even as the final episode of Game of Thrones wound down to its closing moments, the howls of outrage reverberated around the globe. “How could
HANGING OUT BY THE DOJO, SAN FRANCISCO, 1981 The headquarters dojo of Goju-Kai Karate-Do USA was for many years located at Eighteenth and Collingwood in
Any writer in the creative arts can share a version of this story. It is invariably something that has directly happened to them: They’re at
This is the recipe of Mary Rautiainen Smeds (1893-2001). This treat was often known among her family and friends simply as Grandma’s coffee bread. Her
It was 2014, and Sara Stamey needed a cover for her novel The Ariadne Connection. It wasn’t the plan that I be the person to
The first image you see here is the end result of my 2015 assignment to generate a cover for Realms of Darkover, edited by Deborah
When Kristine Smith asked me to come up with new covers for her “Jani Kilian” series of science fiction novels, she had a particular item