If anyone in the 19th century was going to celebrate Christmas in a truly outstanding fashion, you know that person had to be Queen Victoria, who helped enormously to popularize the holiday in Great Britain and set its traditions in … Continue reading
Ah, holiday customs. At my house, we’ve developed a new one over the last few years: after exchanging presents and eating Christmas dinner and pulling crackers (we lurrrrve Christmas crackers!) and nibbling at dessert, we usually play a rollicking game … Continue reading
See, there’s a part of me that mourns that THIS is the question that pops up like a jack in the box. The country I was born in – the one that doesn’t exist in atlases any more – was … Continue reading
Award-winning author Patricia Rice presents three romantic novellas from her celebrated Crystal Magic series–together for the first time in one collection.
Continue readingSo many people joke that in Australia everything’s different. Compared with the US and the UK, Christmas is also different. For me, anyhow. Australia is one of the most secular countries on Earth. This has led to Australians claiming certain … Continue reading
I walked into the Starbucks this morning (I’d run out of coffee beans, don’t judge) and they were playing Christmas music. I was prepared – it’ not like it doesn’t happen every year at this time – but I still … Continue reading
by Brenda W. Clough For the historical fictioneer there are two ways to research. One is of course through books. Paging through dusty tomes, plowing through period letters, digging up the original documents, oh yes. You can grow old this … Continue reading
My typical Christmas Day is a writing day. When I get tired of writing, I watch DVDs, for I can’t face Christmas advertisements. This is one of the many effects of being Jewish in Australia. This year, however, some friends … Continue reading
As you may have guessed, my tree is a mixture of many, many faiths and traditions—as a storyteller’s tree should be. I’ve been sharing ornaments over the Internet on social media, and several of my BVC cohorts have volunteered special ornaments or decorations from their own homes. (They also understood that if they didn’t cough up a story, I would write a story about the decoration involving the Flying Spaghetti Monster, squids, and probably Cthulhu.)
Continue readingI have a friend who BUGS me. He comes up with – or finds – these wonderful ideas and then parks them in front of me and says disingenuously, “Wouldn’t that make a good story?” followed by repeated pokes of, … Continue reading
