Review: Anne Crawford's The Yorkists |
The Yorkists: The History of a Dynasty by Anne CrawfordHambledon Continuum, 2007ISBN: 978 1 85285 351 8I was excited when Anne Crawford's The Yorkists: The History of a Dynasty appeared on my Amazon s...
Posted by Susan Higginbotham on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:51:00 PST |
The New, Improved Traitor's Wife |
This is a new edition of my novel, with even a shiny new ISBN number, 1-58348-475-2. I've made some minor stylistic changes and corrected some typographical errors that have been nagging at me for two...
Posted by Susan Higginbotham on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:49:00 PST |
In Which I Swear To Indiscriminately Report on Books No More |
Having spent a dark night of the soul dwelling on my unworthiness as a blogger to review books, I've decided I should raise the tone of this blog, in the hopes of someday being deemed worthy to f...
Posted by Susan Higginbotham on Fri, 25 May 2007 08:53:00 PST |
I'm Not Worthy |
I'm not sure what is the funniest thing I've heard this week: Monica Goodling's statements in front of the Judiciary Commitee or this comment by Sheila Kohler, who's just published a historical n...
Posted by Susan Higginbotham on Fri, 25 May 2007 08:48:00 PST |
Westminster's Despenser: Abbot Nicholas de Litlyngton |
Nicholas de Litlyngton, abbot of Westminster from 1362 until his death in 1386, has been misidentified by Dugdale and many since as an out-of-wedlock son of Edward III. As E. H. Pearce pointed out in ...
Posted by Susan Higginbotham on Mon, 07 May 2007 06:55:00 PST |
A New Short Story |
I visited my Amazon page today and was pleased to find that my Amazon Short, a short piece of historical fiction called The Justiciar's Wife, is available for download now, for the princely price of 4...
Posted by Susan Higginbotham on Sat, 05 May 2007 04:26:00 PST |
Coming Up Roses |
As we know thanks to Sarah, Philippa Gregory is set to write three novels set during the Wars of the Roses: The White Queen, The White Princess, and The Red Queen. Gregory's popularity can't help...
Posted by Susan Higginbotham on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 06:48:00 PST |
A Snippet and the Order of the Garter |
At Windsor Castle, Will, now the Earl of Salisbury, preened in his new robe, powdered with little blue garters. "How do you like it, sister?""It suits you well," Bess said absently, though she was not...
Posted by Susan Higginbotham on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:20:00 PST |
My Friend the Semicolon; And Its Relation the Comma |
I love semicolons; I really, really do.What prompted this revelation is a discussion that I've been having at the day job. (Yes, the glamour of my day job overwhelms even me at times.)Regardless of th...
Posted by Susan Higginbotham on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:21:00 PST |
Geraldus Redux |
I don't know if you overseas readers have noticed this, but we in the United States have been awfully apologetic lately. We've had a radio host apologizing for making racist remarks, we've had the pre...
Posted by Susan Higginbotham on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:46:00 PST |
