I’ve been able to milk out my Ella Wood trilogy for not just one fabulous trip to the South, but TWO. My husband and I combined our 18th anniversary with research for Ella Wood (book 1) when I had just started writing it back in 2014 with a trip to Charleston, SC. For our 20th, […]
Blood Moon: Military Innovations of the Charleston Campaign
This is the final post in a four-part series about writing and researching my upcoming young adult historical fiction novel, Blood Moon, the second book in my Ella Wood series. (Part 1: Women’s Education; Part 2: African American Soldiers. Part 3: Early Photography.) The Civil War provided the turning point from the old European style […]
Blood Moon: Early Photography
This is the third post in a four-part series about writing and researching my upcoming young adult historical fiction novel, Blood Moon, the second book in my Ella Wood series. (Part 1: Women’s Education; Part 2: African American Soldiers.) Photography plays an important role in Blood Moon. By the start of the Civil War, photographs had become […]
Blood Moon: African American Soldiers
This is the second post in a four-part series about writing and researching my upcoming young adult historical fiction novel, Blood Moon, book two in my Ella Wood series. (Part 1: Women’s Education.) I’m certainly getting an education in the events of the Civil War. In particular, the events that took place in and around […]
Blood Moon: Women's Education
This is the first post in a four-part series about writing and researching my upcoming young adult historical fiction novel, Blood Moon, the second book in my Ella Wood series. Every novel I write takes me on a new journey of discovery–especially when I write in the historical fiction genre. Little did I know that […]