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We still have some Lazy Days of Summer book reviews coming down the pike, but I couldn’t wait to launch this next blog series. I wanted to share little bits of my Viking novel, God’s Daughter, with you, so I decided to go the PicMonkey route and give you pinnable quotes and pictures. I will freely admit it took me… Read More
Okay…hope you have about five minutes to watch this…then please respond below! I hope you will share my excitement! I couldn’t wait till my regular Monday posting schedule to let you all know!
Let’s just say my dear friend Michelle Griep has a knack for catchy titles, as evidenced above. Don’t fear. We aren’t advocating opium use in any way, shape, or form today. Rather, Michelle’s going to share some of her research for her recent release, A Heart Deceived. Michelle Griep And why do I love Michelle? Hm. She wrote about Vikings… Read More
Viking Mother painting by Frank Stick Just wanted to share my guest post on Viking author Gina Conkle’s lovely website today! http://ginaconkle.com/vikings-were-human-too-by-guest-blogger-heather-day-gilbert-2/. Hope you can check it out. In the post, I discuss women in Viking society. I’d written this before the Vikings miniseries came out–but feel free to comment over there about how history confirms/doesn’t confirm the direction they’re… Read More
VIKINGS miniseries on The History Channel As you probably heard, the Vikings miniseries launched on The History Channel Sunday night. As I mentioned on my FB author page, #Vikings was the top trender that day on twitter. It’s nice to look up #Vikings and find stuff about ACTUAL Vikings for a change, and not the football team. Not that I… Read More
One of my fave histfic books ever. Not too many details yet evokes a time period. Driving first-person storyline. I just read an excellent post by Baker acquisitions editor Chad Allen here: http://www.chadrallen.com/2012/11/29/the-not-very-sexy-essential-to-your-books-mind-blowing-success/. Basically, he was in a situation where he had to explain what need would be met by the book he presented to the publishing committee. In other… Read More