Writing Historical Romantic Suspense – Beth Henderson

Whether you want to change history (as alternative allows you to do in various ways, just jump in your time machine) or insert characters into an earlier era and give them a crime to deal with or a crime in the making if someone is hunting them, or use actual historical personages – or not – in a real historic mystery setting…well, this workshop will touch on them all.

Norse Scotland

In this year dire portents appeared over Northumbria and sorely frightened the inhabitants. They consisted of immense whirlwinds and flashes of lightning, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air. A great famine followed soon upon these signs, and a little after that in the same year on the ides of June the harrying heathen destroyed God’s church on Lindisfarne by rapine and slaughter. – Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 793

Mount Up! Wagons Roll!

Western adventure is making a comeback. First as Weird West Steampunk, but also in historical romance. So, pack your carpet bag, board the stagecoach, climb aboard the Conestoga or mount your trusty palomino. We’re headed back in time, and we’re headed West!