The crest of Salas de los Infantes tells the Lara side of the story.  I spent two years writing my darling baby novel and more years rev...

My recent trip to Spain had many life-changing moments. Most relevant to my writing, I got to see the legend upon which I based my novel  Se...

Yes, I killed some of my darlings.  It took a number of months of intense writing and fretting, but at last I completed the revisions ...

I don't usually learn the hard way. But the tenacity needed by a writer these days seems to have dulled my previously incisive percept...

Today at  Unusual Historicals  I get to share with you the medieval phenomenon that occupied my every waking moment for three years, all t...

Imagine for a moment that you are Mudarra González. You’ve just come of age, having been raised in tenth-century Medina Azahara among splen...

This is an accurate depiction of what happened to Seven Noble Knights at Literary Idol. Skewered. (Art by Ayal Pinkus) As I...