My love affair with things Medieval seems to have started a long time ago, and began—as is not surprising to anyone who knows me—with music. My family loved Christmas. My sisters and I used to sing all the old carols, and some of the new ones, though I never thought...
I believe in magic. It’s difficult not to believe in something that surrounds us every day. There is an enchantment in the turning of the seasons and a strength in the elements that make up the natural world. If you doubt that, just go outside on a clear night and...
Born enemies, is their destiny to become lovers? Since time out of mind, two clans have contested for dominance in bonny glen Bronach, known as the glen of sorrows. But now, fierce young Rory MacLeod has taken over as chief of his lands and vowed to seize all rival...
Those of us who love Steampunk recognize it’s a genre like no other. When people find out we’re into this particular world, they inevitably ask, “What’s Steampunk, anyhow? Can you tell me?” Usually, I have trouble doing so. I give them the whole Alternate Victorian...
It might be said that Buffalo, New York—renowned worldwide for its monster snow storms and oft-disappointing sports teams—is an unexpected setting for a Steampunk adventure. As a native born and bred in that great, gray, gritty city on the edge of the mighty Niagara,...
CHAMPION OF SHERWOOD Excerpt/Laura Strickland The village of Oakham, Sherwood Forest Midsummer 1235 "Lark! Falcon! Will the two of you not give over with your nonsense and get out from under foot so I might get my work done?" Half exasperated and half amused, Linnet...
Excerpt: Nottingham Castle"”April 1216 "The Sheriff of Nottingham is dying, and Geofrey of Oakham is dead." The stark words penetrated Rennie's sleep the way hunger might, or a bad ache. Uttered in a deep, smoky voice, they wove through her senses and drew her...
