Time traveling Bella Salas falls for Elizabethan caps: linen beauties with elaborate embroidery, a luxurious be-feathered velvet topper, and a plain woolen head covering that helps her escape from a mean suitor.

Enjoy an Elizabethan Cap at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum

How much have times changed when it comes to weapons and war? Learn more when you read Tangled in Tudor Times. In this book Software Engineer Bella Salas tumbles through a stained-glass window into the era of Queen Elizabeth the First, and finds romance and suspense in the shadow of the Roman Emperor Hadrian's ancient wall. In this podcast episode I share: What's a Weapon? Tudor Weapons, Novel Excerpt - Is that a Gun?, and Finally the late Soul composer Kevin Starr asks us  War, what is it good for?

In Tangled in Tudor Times time traveler Bella Salas finds food crops, medicinal plants, and magic herbs springing forth in Elizabethan gardens and fields. What did she see?  EXPLICIT

In Tangled in Tudor Times time travelling heroine Bella Salas, and her hosts’ son Pip, are on a hunt for a Roman Dragon who has been napping in England’s North Country for nearly two thousand years. Thoughts of the Tudor import pottery, majolica, are interwoven with a review of Romans in Britain, from the time they plant their first boots on the ground, until they leave several centuries later.

What is embroidery? What techniques did Tudor makers use when they embroidered? How is tapestry work different from embroidery? Why were Tudors drawn to this art form? Who embroidered in the Elizabethan era?  Author LR Shimer reads aloud from Tangled in Tudor Times as Time traveler Bella Salas works on an embroidery project for Queen Elizabeth the First. 

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In Tangled in Tudor Times time traveler Bella Salas needs a place to stay. She puts up in a priory. But during Queen Elizabeth the First's era, priories aren't what they used to be. It all started with Henry the VIII and the "Kings Great Matter".

In August of 2021, I participated in the San Mateo Library program A Fine Romance, and was honored to read aloud from Tangled in Tudor Times, the first of six time travel romantic suspense books in my Tudor Times and Tales series. In anticipation of Tangled in Tudor Times' release this month, I'm reading from the book I shared at A Fine Romance.

The sounds of Greensleeves — thanks to Creative Commons artist Dobroide at freesound.org. Did Queen Elizabeth's Daddy, Henry VIII,  compose Greensleves? Why do people like the idea of Henry VIII composing this song ? Why are these Elizabethans making music? Because the local folk need it to dance. Sharing story from the Tangled in Tudor Times chapter, La Volta.

Paloma reached for the box and opened it to display an antique, gold-rimmed miniature painting. "It’s uncanny," she said. "This woman really looks like you." My sister laughed. "I bet you think you’re going to find a time portal back to the sixteenth century when you get to London."

There's so much history that doesn't fit in a light novel and that's where this historical tidbits podcast comes in.