Fathers Day Novel Gifts The history of Fathers Day as seen today is not even a hundred years old. Ms Sonora Louise Smart Dodd of Spokane,Washington is credited with pushing for the special day in the US. She was not satisfied with just Mothers Day to honor mothers. However, some scholars argue that Fathers Day […]
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Amazing Some of the Firsts of the Civil War #histfic, #historical #fiction
Some of the firsts of the Civil War include: the first periscope (used in trench warfare), the first successful submarine (the Hunley named after the inventor and made from an old steam boiler), the first repeating rifles, the first rifle scopes, first ironclad navies, first army ambulance corps, first workable machine gun, first cigarette tax, […]
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I had a great time on my #novel tour through the #south. My book has #strong #female characters on both sides of the #civilwar
Continue ReadingRESEARCH FOR THE NOVEL
In researching for my novel, Asunder, A Novel of the Civil War, I had a lot to learn. I dug through volumes of googled information as well as from books and pamphlets and actual Civil War era documents. I toured the battlefields multiple times. On one trek I walked the entire distance through chest high […]
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