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MacCorp News April 2023
What's Next: The Moonstone Brooch Why do I enjoy writing historical fiction? Because the world is already created. I don't have much of an imagination when it comes to creating anything from the future. I must not have a forward-thinking mind. It hit home this week when I had to create a computer used decades from now. What would…
MacCorp News March 2023
The Moonstone Brooch update: Well, as usual, what I plan to write doesn't always appear on the page. My muse believes she's in charge and maybe she is. I start with a general idea and write it in the form of a story synopsis, complete with characters who I think will be in the story. But the story rarely ends…
MacCorp News February 2023
From The Moonstone Brooch (Book 13) Research File President McKinley was assassinated on September 6, 1901, inside the Temple of Music at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. The president was operated on by a Buffalo gynecologist because the famed Dr. Roswell Park, the Exposition's chief medical officer and an expert on gunshot wounds, was in Niagara Falls…
MacCorp News January 2023
What's Next: The Moonstone Brooch (Book 13) When Barclay “Clay” Archibald MacIntyre, an investigative reporter, finds a moonstone brooch hidden in his late uncle’s library, he triggers the magic and is swept up into a swirling fog that carries him back in time to Buffalo, NY. He arrives at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition on the day President McKinley is assassinated. Knowing…
The Bloodstone Brooch Author Notes
The Bloodstone Brooch didn’t turn out to be the book I set out to write. Early on, Tavis and his family took over the story, and Teddy Roosevelt, Lillian Wald, and Jacob Riis became minor characters. The Topaz, The Sunstone, and The Bloodstone will probably become known as the Viking Trilogy. But now, we are done with the Vikings, and…