Books and Brews Podcast

A lifelong Sherlockian, Richard T. Ryan is the author of nine Sherlock Holmes novels and currently working on his tenth. He's also written a well-received murder mystery "Deadly Relations which has been produced twice off-Broadway. He pursued graduate studies at Notre Dame where he majored in medieval literature.

Our talk ranged from Knights Templar finding Minnesota in the 1300s to the reasons Arthur Conan Doyle killed Sherlock Holmes to the inefficient bombers of the 1880s and the Scarlet Pimpernel and Mark Wahlberg.

00:00 START 06:20 Drink 1: Watson's Delight 07:20 Reading 1: The Traitorous Templar 11:20 From medieval literature and old English to Sherlock Holmes 16:13 Pastiches, purity, and creative license 18:54 Drink 2: The Baker Street Bramble 20:07 Reading 2: Three May Keep a Secret 21:45 Masters of disguise 25:52 What makes Sherlock Holmes so enduring 30:21 Arthur Conan Doyle's feelings about Sherlock Holmes 35:55 Drink 3: The Moriarty Martini 37:42 Reading 3: The Devil's Disciples 39:24 The importance of getting the details right 43:20 News and fiction Visit our PATREON for AFTER HOURS with Richard T. Ryan

Find Richard at www.mxpublishing.com www.lauravosika.com www.gabrielshornpress.com www.booksandbrews.net

HELP US KEEP BRINGING YOU GREAT AUTHORS!

If you enjoy our interviews or have benefitted from them, we invite you to help us continue our work. It takes a great deal of time and money to produce Books and Brews. We've been doing interviews since January 2017 as a free service to authors. We continue to promote those authors on our social media for years after their interviews. Subscribing, following, liking, commenting and sharing all help us to keep doing what we do.

A $5 tip helps us pay for our many expenses: Libsyn hosting, web hosting, Google meets, providing the drinks for the interview and the many hours of preparation and editing that go into each episode.

Patreon: patreon.com/BooksandBrewswithLauraVosika

Tip Jar: paypal.me/booksandbrewsMN

Books and Brews products: (more to come)

Sponsor an episode to promote your product or service: contact us [email protected]

COMING NEXT MONTH: Beth Duke, amazon bestselling author of southern fiction and time travel

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Gabriel's Horn is accepting submissions for its anthology NEW THEMES: CHILDREN. See Laura's interview at Central Valley Talk See Laura's interview with Rob & Joan Carter at INDIE NOVEL SOURCE

Our theme music is from www.bensound.com.

Books and Brews: the place where beer and literature meet! Michael Colon is a novelist and freelance writer, born and raised in New York City. His author's story is about hard work, perseverance, and believing in the power of imagination. His inspiration comes from various societal abnormalities, the beauty in cultural differences, and his own life experiences.

His debut novel, The Gift from Aelius, is about an artificial intelligence's growing awareness of purpose and life. There is not a science fiction tale as poetic and thought-provoking. In the not-too distant future, A191, a Codex with artificial intelligence, feels like a misfit in Paradise, a walled city in the middle of an endless desert where humans imprisoned his race long ago. He's not like the others of his kind; he longs to meet humans and make peace with them so man and Codexes can be reunited in the world. These thoughts and feelings are not allowed in Paradise; he risks banishment to the desert by the Overseer A. I. who rules by fear and force. The journey reveals the truth about his existence, the Overseer's lies, and the consequences of mankind's untethered technology.

00:00 START 05:31 Drink 1: The Singularity 08:13 Reading 1: Codex 12:53 Will AI begin to think for itself? 15:30 Did AI already try to destroy humanity? 21:21 Drink 2: Paradise 23:28 Reading 2: Starry Desert Night 29:02 Free will and choices 31:10 Numbers, names, and fear of losing our humanity 35:03 Philosophy and Sci-fi 45:12 Drink 3: Bingo 47:06 Reading 3: At the Haven 48:04 Political divide 48:59 Finding your purpose Visit our PATREON for our extended AFTER HOURS with Michael Colon

https://www.clippings.me/users/michaelcolon www.lauravosika.com www.gabrielshornpress.com www.booksandbrews.net ~ ~

If you enjoy our interviews or have benefitted from them, we invite you to help us continue our work. It takes a great deal of time and money to produce Books and Brews. We've been doing interviews since January 2017 as a free service to authors. We continue to promote those authors on our social media for years after their interviews. Subscribing, following, liking, commenting and sharing all help us to keep doing what we do.

A $5 tip helps us pay for our many expenses: Libsyn hosting, web hosting, Google meets, providing the drinks for the interview and the many hours of preparation and editing that go into each episode.

Patreon: patreon.com/BooksandBrewswithLauraVosika

Tip Jar: paypal.me/booksandbrewsMN * Books and Brews products: https://www.zazzle.com/store/books_an… (more to come)

Sponsor an episode to promote your product or service: contact us [email protected]

COMING NEXT MONTH: Richard T. Ryan, Sherlockian tales!

UPCOMING EVENTS: Gabriel's Horn is accepting submissions for its anthology NEW THEMES: CHILDREN See Laura's interview at Central Valley Talk See Laura's interview with Rob & Joan Carter at INDIE NOVEL SOURCE Our theme music is from www.bensound.com.

John Graham shipped out on a freighter when he was 16, hitchhiked through the Algerian Revolution at 19 and was on the team that made the first ascent of Denali's North Wall at 20, a climb so dangerous it's never been repeated. He hitchhiked around the world at 22, working as a correspondent in every war he came across. A US Foreign Service Officer for 15 years, he was in the middle of the 1969 revolution in Libya and the war in Vietnam. As a global peace builder, post Foreign Service, he contributed to peace efforts in Israel and Palestine.

For the last 42 years he's been a leader of the Giraffe Heroes Project, a global movement inspiring people to stick their necks out to solve public problems and giving them tools to succeed (giraffe.org). His speeches, blogs, podcasts and interviews have a global audience.

In our interview, we talked about John's adventures around the globe, being a thrill seeker, his realization of his need to change, and more.

00:00 START 03:43 Drink 1: The Shipwreck 05:13 Reading 1: Cruise Ship Down! 11:25 The Coast Guard's most important rescue ever--and John was there! 14:35 From selfish to selfless 19:15 Helping to end apartheid 22:46 Castro's man and plans on a napkin 33:20 Drink 3: Honey Lemon Spritz 36:19 Reading 3: A Healing Miracle 48:22 "Most significant risks challenge the soul." 49:52 Seeking meaning in our lives Visit our PATREON for our extended AFTER HOURS with John Graham

www.johngraham.org

www.lauravosika.com

www.gabrielshornpress.com

www.booksandbrews.net

SEE OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL FOR BOOKS AND BREWS LIGHT:

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If you enjoy our interviews or have benefitted from them, we invite you to help us continue our work. It takes a great deal of time and money to produce Books and Brews. We've been doing interviews since January 2017 as a free service to authors. We continue to promote those authors on our social media for years after their interviews. Subscribing, following, liking, commenting and sharing all help us to keep doing what we do. A $5 tip helps us pay for our many expenses: Libsyn hosting, web hosting, Google meets, providing the drinks for the interview and the many hours of preparation and editing that go into each episode. Patreon: patreon.com/BooksandBrewswithLauraVosika Tip Jar: paypal.me/booksandbrewsMN * Books and Brews products: https://www.zazzle.com/store/books_an… (more to come) Sponsor an episode to promote your product or service: contact us [email protected]

COMING NEXT MONTH: We have a surprise gest for January 2025

UPCOMING EVENTS: Gabriel's Horn is accepting submissions for its anthology NEW THEME: CHILDREN. See Laura's interview at Central Valley Talk: https://youtu.be/ZKdeLPPgdys?si=wqPHZsAxYqgzjKcV

Our theme music is from www.bensound.com.

J.P. Reedman lives in Wiltshire near to Stonehenge. Born in Canada, she has had a lifelong interest in ancient and medieval history, and is often found lurking around prehistoric sites, ruined castles and abbeys, and interesting churches with camera in hand. She became a full-time writer in 2018.

Series include: I, Richard Plantagenet, 5 books chronicling Richard's life from childhood to Bosworth, and Medieval Babes, a set of standalone novels about lesser-known medieval queens and noblewomen. Her most recent release is Princess in the Police Station, the tale of little Anne Mowbray, wife of the younger 'Prince in the Tower' whose grave was unexpectedly found in the 1960's. The next book to be released will be The Melancholy of Winter, which is about Edmund of Rutland, Richard's tragic elder brother.

In our interview, we talked about JP reading Beowulf as a young child, historical foods and records of the menus of great feasts, whether being a noble is over-romanticized, historical hoaxes, and more.

00:00 START 05:54 Drink 1: Medicine for Melancholy 08:51 Reading 1: The Young Nobles Want to Skate 14:01 Using obscure historical terms 15:37 From fantasy to historical fiction 19:43 Drink 2: Dilly Bean Dirty Martini 22:55 Reading 2: Finding the Bean on Twelfth Night 25:41 The hideous Henry Holland of history 31:15 England and Canada: the story of a war bride 38:39 Drink 3: The Blackberry Raven 42:59 Reading 3: Fighting with Fish 45:53 Boys and mischief! 51:55 Most interesting and important things learned from history Visit our PATREON for our extended AFTER HOURS with JP Reedman

www.x.com/@stonehenge2500

www.lauravosika.com

www.gabrielshornpress.com

www.booksandbrews.net

SEE OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL FOR BOOKS AND BREWS LIGHT:

www.youtube.com/@booksandbrews

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If you enjoy our interviews or have benefitted from them, we invite you to help us continue our work. It takes a great deal of time and money to produce Books and Brews. We've been doing interviews since January 2017 as a free service to authors. We continue to promote those authors on our social media for years after their interviews. Subscribing, following, liking, commenting and sharing all help us to keep doing what we do. A $5 tip helps us pay for our many expenses: Libsyn hosting, web hosting, Google meets, providing the drinks for the interview and the many hours of preparation and editing that go into each episode. Patreon: patreon.com/BooksandBrewswithLauraVosika Tip Jar: paypal.me/booksandbrewsMN * Books and Brews products: https://www.zazzle.com/store/books_an… (more to come) Sponsor an episode to promote your product or service: contact us [email protected]

COMING NEXT MONTH: John Graham, adventurer extraordinaire!

UPCOMING EVENTS: Gabriel's Horn is accepting submissions for its anthology NEW THEME: CHILDREN. See Laura's interview at Central Valley Talk: https://youtu.be/ZKdeLPPgdys?si=wqPHZsAxYqgzjKcV

Our theme music is from www.bensound.com.

Michael C. Keith is the author of an acclaimed memoir––The Next Better Place–a young adult novel––Life is Falling Sideways––and 20 story collections, including, Of Night and Light, Everything is Epic, Sad Boy, And Through the Trembling Air, Hoag's Object, The Collector of Tears, If Things Were Made To Last Forever, Caricatures, The Near Enough, Bits, Specks, Crumbs, Flecks, Slow Transit, Perspective Drifts Like a Log on a River, Let Us Now Speak of Extinction, Stories in the Key of Me, Insomnia 11, Pieces of Bones and Rags, Quiet Geography, The Late Epiphany of a Low-Key Oracle, and Bodies in Recline, Euphony, The Loneliness Channel, and Pings."

He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize several times, a PEN/O'Henry Award, a PEN/Faulkner Award, an IPPY Award and was a finalist for the National Indie Excellence Award for short fiction anthology and a finalist for the 2013 International Book Award in the "Fiction Visionary" category.

In our interview, we talked about how Michael came to be on the road with his father from the age of 8, the places he saw, the kindnesses he remembers, how he got from no school on the road to a Ph.D. and much more!

00:00 START

05:59 Drink 1: On the Road Again

08:45 Reading 1: On the Road

20:15 From years without school to a Ph.D.

24:05 Growing up Nomad: How much of the country did you see?

29:34 Drink 2: Tick of the Clock

34:10 Reading 2: Insomnia

36:34 All about insomnia, causes and cures

44:01 Tales of Larry King

44:48 Drink 3: Love and Fear

48:49 Reading 3: 11:11

51:28 Seeing the same number over and over again

54:33 Pings and the reasons for shorter fiction

Visit our PATREON for our extended AFTER HOURS with Michael C. Keith

• https://michaelckeith.com
• www.lauravosika.com
• www.gabrielshornpress.com
• www.booksandbrews.net

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If you enjoy our interviews or have benefitted from them, we invite you to help us continue our work. It takes a great deal of time and money to produce Books and Brews. We've been doing interviews since January 2017 as a free service to authors. We continue to promote those authors on our social media for years after their interviews. Subscribing, following, liking, commenting and sharing all help us to keep doing what we do.

A $5 tip helps us pay for our many expenses: Libsyn hosting, web hosting, Google meets, providing the drinks for the interview and the many hours of preparation and editing that go into each episode.

• Patreon: patreon.com/BooksandBrewswithLauraVosika
• Tip Jar: paypal.me/booksandbrewsMN * Books and Brews products:
• https://www.zazzle.com/store/books_an… (more to come)
• Sponsor an episode to promote your product or service: contact us [email protected]

COMING NEXT MONTH:

• JP Reedman, historical novelist

UPCOMING EVENTS:

• Gabriel's Horn is accepting submissions for its anthology NEW THEMES: MUSIC; FAITH.
• Laura will be at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, TN on October 26 and 27
• See Laura's interview at Central Valley Talk
• See Laura's interview with Rob & Joan Carter at INDIE NOVEL SOURCE

Our theme music is from www.bensound.com.

Steve Downes is a contemporary Irish poet and novelist, currently living and working in Ireland. Educated in N.U.I. Maynooth, he holds a Degree in Classical History and a Masters in Cultural Anthropology.

Steve has published poetry; science fiction, including Cosmogonic Marbles, Temporal Tome, Gadzooks Armageddon and Botolf Tales (the Botolf Chronicles), Warworld: Shadows & Dominions (part 1), Murder on the Alpha Centauri Express and The Deaths of Guner Zoon; and four children's Books: The Upstairs Cat Series (3 books) & An Apprenticeship to Doctor Vantastic.

Steve continues to write and publish work in many genres.

In 2017 & 2018 Steve exhibited from his collections of historical photographs, Lost Graveyards of Ireland (2017) and A Landscape For Yourself (2018). Among other things, we talked about his painting, the IRA, angsty poetry, and...the world's oldest maternity hospital!

00:00 START

05:26 Drink 1: Irish Coffee

12:28 Reading 1: chase & fight in Dublin

17:53 The Rotunda, world's oldest maternity hospital

23:55 Why the Irish give Dublin's statues...interesting...names

25:52 Tales of the IRA

33:01 Drink 2: The Love and Murder

38:21 Reading 2: Murder on the Alpha Centauri Express

42:07 On marketing

43:07 From high school dropout to a masters in classical history to sci-fi!

48:28 Drink 3: The Mission Impossible

51:57 Reading 3: Dr. Vantastic

55:43 Steve's many genres

Visit our PATREON for our extended AFTER HOURS with Stephen Downes

• https://writerstevedownes.wordpress.com
• www.lauravosika.com
• www.gabrielshornpress.com
• www.booksandbrews.net

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If you enjoy our interviews or have benefitted from them, we invite you to help us continue our work. It takes a great deal of time and money to produce Books and Brews. We've been doing interviews since January 2017 as a free service to authors. We continue to promote those authors on our social media for years after their interviews. Subscribing, following, liking, commenting and sharing all help us to keep doing what we do.

A $5 tip helps us pay for our many expenses: Libsyn hosting, web hosting, Google meets, providing the drinks for the interview and the many hours of preparation and editing that go into each episode.

• Patreon: patreon.com/BooksandBrewswithLauraVosika
• Tip Jar: paypal.me/booksandbrewsMN * Books and Brews products:
• https://www.zazzle.com/store/books_an… (more to come)
• Sponsor an episode to promote your product or service: contact us [email protected]

COMING NEXT MONTH:

• Michael C. Keith, author of poetry, memoir, short stories, and novels

UPCOMING EVENTS:

• Gabriel's Horn is accepting submissions for its anthology NEW THEMES: MUSIC; FAITH.
• Laura will be at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, TN on October 26 and 27
• See Laura's interview at Central Valley Talk
• See Laura's interview with Rob & Joan Carter at INDIE NOVEL SOURCE

Our theme music is from www.bensound.com.

Kathy Murray is a certified personal trainer with over thirty years' experience in the fitness industry. She is a graduate of The Ohio State University where she was a member of the 1983 National Cheerleading Championship Team. After college she competed in and won the United States Aerobic Championship in 1986 and spent the year traveling the world as a Fitness Ambassador and worked as a free-lance educator to teach fitness to European Instructors.

While in Munich, she coached the Munich Cowboys (American Football) Cheerleaders to six national titles in cheerleading and was head trainer/translator for the German Gladiators during a pilot TV show for the International Gladiators. Kathy has owned her personal training business Fit Bodies for 25 years and in 2022 co-authored the Audible book, The Munich Cowboy Cheerleaders based upon her true story of her time coaching the squad. She has recently released it in both paperback and ebook formats. In her spare time she is a competitive triathlete which she has been enjoying for 20 plus years now. She lives in Atlanta with her husband Lutalo, dog Mingus and cat Sassy.

We talked a lot about the impact of travel, experiencing other cultures, and learning languages, in addition to cheerleading and Kathy's time as a coach.

Kathy's Readings:

00:00 Start

08:40 The Competition Starts!

29:40 Speeding Ticket--AGAIN!

48:45 Conflict with Dad (or...Following Our Dreams)

Chris's Cocktail Pairings:

06:35 The Cheerleader

26:35 The Speeding Ticket

46:12 Grumpy Old man

Interview Highlights:

20:15 Life Lessons from Cheerleading and Band

22:00 The Importance of Fitness and Other Thoughts on Exercise

35:50 Other Countries' Attitudes Toward Foreigners and Americans

41:11 Overcoming the Language Barrier

54:20 Doing What You Love

55:54 Friendship with a Celebrity and Traveling the World

Visit our PATREON for our extended AFTER HOURS with KATHY MURRAY

COMING NEXT MONTH:

• Steve Downes, Irish author, poet, and children's writer

UPCOMING EVENTS:

• Gabriel's Horn is accepting submissions for its anthology NEW THEMES: MUSIC; FAITH.
• Laura will be at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, TN on October 26 and 27
• See Laura's interview at Central Valley Talk
• See Laura's interview with Rob & Joan Carter at INDIE NOVEL SOURCE

Our theme music is from www.bensound.com.

Like any good soldier's son, Frank Warner moved with his family from fort to fort, accepted each change, and was ready to move again. Then, in 1960, Frank's father was ordered to Fort Huachuca (WahCHOOka), Arizona. This was the fifth Army post of Frank's childhood, the first place he never wanted to leave. So when his father was ordered to Vietnam in 1963, sending Frank and the rest of the family to Pennsylvania, the uprooting wasn't easy. Frank's book, "Tumbleeweed Forts: Adventures of an Army Brat," describes the joys of living in Fort Huachuca, and the heartache of leaving it behind.

Tune in for a fun conversation and great cocktails, including in red, white, and blue for July!

Frank's Readings:

00:00 Start

10:02 A Bike Race on Base!

30:57 Atomic Dollars

47:01 Leaving Huachuca

Chris's Cocktail Pairings:

06:11 Red, White, and Blue

25:40 The Atomic Cocktail

44:09 Goodbye Sunshine

Interview Highlights:

19:10 This plane is on fii--ire!

23:29 Why Huachuaca? Why it was magical

35:02 Silver Dollars and Stories on Atomic Testing

38:34 Private Jones' Buried Treasure & the Scientist with Alien Technology

43:31 How Tombstone got its Name

50:15 Finding Old Friends

52:12 Dad going to Vietnam, Saving the Ashes

Visit our PATREON for our extended AFTER HOURS with FRANK WARNER

COMING NEXT MONTH:

• Devrie Donalson, comedian and author

UPCOMING EVENTS:

• Gabriel's Horn is accepting submissions for its anthology NEW THEMES: MUSIC; FAITH
• Laura will be selling her books, premium rabbit fertilizer, herbs & more at the Morristown Farmer's Market, 130 W Morris Boulevard, Morristown, TN on July 5, starting at 5 pm.
• Laura will be at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, TN on October 26 and 27
• See Laura's interview at Central Valley Talk
• See Laura's interview with Rob & Joan Carter at INDIE NOVEL SOURCE

Our theme music is from www.bensound.com.

Sharon Bennett Connolly is the best-selling British author of several non-fiction history books. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Sharon has studied history academically and just for fun – and has even worked as a tour guide at a castle. She also writes the popular history blog, www.historytheinteresngbits.com and co-hosts the podcast A Slice of Medieval, alongside historical novelist Derek Birks.

Sharon regularly gives talks on women's history, for historical groups, fesvals and in schools; her book Silk and the Sword: The Women of the Norman Conquest, is a recommended text for teaching the Norman Conquest in the Naonal Curriculum. She is a feature writer for All About History and Living Medieval magazines and her TV work includes Australian Television's Who Do You Think You Are?

Tune in for a fun conversation and great beer!

Sharon's Readings:

00:00 Start

11:16 The Young Bride's First Duties

29:12 Stephen's Coronation

46:43 Matilda at the Helm

Chris's Cocktail Pairings:

08:01 The Nikolaschka from Germany

26: The Mourning Cocktail

43:39 Belgian Brownie

Interview Highlights:

15:21 The Wreck of the White Ship: a king's tragedy

21:33 How oppressed were women in medieval times?

24:06 How a British author ended up on Australian TV

31:33 Widows and abbeys: the real reason

38:17 Why history is important (and a real-life vampire!)

51:50 Women, Leadership, and Leading Warriors

54:43 Do we ever learn from history?

COMING NEXT MONTH:

• Like any good soldier's son, Frank Warner moved with his family from fort to fort, accepted each change, and was ready to move again. Then, in 1960, Frank's father was ordered to Fort Huachuca (WahCHOOka), Arizona. This was the fifth Army post of Frank's childhood, the first place he never wanted to leave. So when his father was ordered to Vietnam in 1963, sending Frank and the rest of the family to Pennsylvania, the uprooting wasn't easy. Frank's book, "Tumbleeweed Forts: Adventures of an Army Brat," describes the joys of living in Fort Huachuca, and the heartache of leaving it behind.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

• Gabriel's Horn is accepting submissions for its anthology NEW THEMES: MUSIC; FAITH
• Laura will be selling her books, premium rabbit fertilizer & more at the Morristown Farmer's Market, 130 W Morris Boulevar, Morristown, TN on July 5.
• Laura will be at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, TN on October 26 and 27
• See Laura's interview at Central Valley Talk
• See Laura's interview with Rob & Joan Carter at INDIE NOVEL SOURCE

Our theme music is from www.bensound.com.

Robert Heath grew up in different places around the world, beginning in Japan in the late '40s. Robert and his eight siblings followed the assignments of their father, a sergeant in the U.S. Army. He ultimately became an educator for 37 years, serving all grade levels from Pre-K through doctoral programs in South and North Carolina. He now lives in the mountains of NC, where he loves writing and hiking. You can find him at face book at BratBob3of9

We talk about Bob's adventures growing up in Taiwan, Japan, Germany and the United States, with one sister and seven brothers, life as a military brat, the fun of large families and lots of boys and the antics kids get up to behind mom's back, U.S. history, bullying...and the day Bob was captured by Chiang Kai-Shek's soldiers and brought face with the military leader himself! Tune in for a fun conversation and great beer!

Bob's Readings:

00:00 Start

08:56 How About a Date?

25:54 Swinging

43:03 Captured by Enemy Soldiers!

Chris's Beer Pairings:

07:52 Bell's Smitten

23:29 Masthead's Tire Swing

39:54 Great Leap's The Hidden General

Interview Highlights:

12:36 How Bob's mother asked out his future mother-in-law

14:47 The stories mom never knew about--and how they led to a book

18:49 US history through personal experience

33:27 Americans in Japan two years after Hiroshima

36:26 Culture shock on returning to your own country

48:40 Do military parents make a point of not talking politics with brats?

51:16 Wild and free: military life or the times?

COMING NEXT MONTH:

• Sharon Bennett Connolly has been fascinated by history for over 40 years and was recently elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, 'in recognition of your contribution to historical scholarship.' She's studied history academically and just for fun and even worked as a tour guide at historical sites.

  One Christmas her husband gave her…a blog – and she hasn't looked back. The blog has given her the chance to share the history she loves – the stories themselves, and the places they happened. And in 2017 she completed her first non-fiction book, Heroines of the Medieval World.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

· Gabriel's Horn is accepting submissions for its anthology NEW THEMES: MUSIC; FAITH

· Laura will be selling her books, premium rabbit fertilizer & more at the Morristown Farmer's Market, 130 W Morris Boulevar, Morristown, TN on May 10, June 7, and July 5.

· See Laura's interview at Central Valley Talk

· See Laura's interview with Rob & Joan Carter at INDIE NOVEL SOURCE

Our theme music is from www.bensound.com.