Some historical background for our new audio drama, The Witches of Lublin,  that served as the writers' springboard for creating our fictional story:

Women Klezmers:

"Despite the weight of Jewish custom against women playing music in public, daughters and wives played with their fathers and husbands and women performed on their own. Some of the ( Read more... )

Has everyone seen The Luttrell Psalter Film on YouTube?  Very useful and beautiful if you write (or read) pre-industrial fantasy/historical fiction with a rural setting . . . or just want pretty pictures of the English countryside, its flora & fauna.  A real sense of the textures of the land, and of the kind of work that went into sustaining people ( Read more... )

After 3 days of intense & furious editing of everyone else's Bordertown stories, I am now working on my own. My character is a grad student in cultural anthropology, who had the bright idea of going to B'town to do field work among the elves (or Truebloods, as they call themselves).  Ideally he'd go right into the Realm, but of course no human can ( Read more... )

UNMITIGATED RAPTURE!!!! not only did my dimwitted online researches & subsequent guesses prove to be unexpectedly right on, but our MD friends Eric & Elka just walked me through the entire accident, diagnosis, procedure & recovery so I can put the details right in my story. We did it on Skype, with lots of hand gestures. I am a Happy Writer ( Read more... )