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Dirt & Bones: Living Quarters

Bysuehar

In my current novel (Working title: HORSES OF THE WEST SUN, previously BONE FIRE), I based the houses of the River People on the rectangular, semi-subterranean dwellings used by the Dudeşti people who settled in what is now Romania during the sixth millennium B.C. These houses are built to endure rain and cold weather. By…

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Happy Thanksgiving 2013!!

Bysuehar

It’s not about the “stuff,” although we are so very blessed with things, gadgets, and belongings. It’s not about the “stuffing,” although we will enjoy a feast. It’s all about the love! HAPPY THANKSGIVING and many BLESSINGS TO ALL!! (Class of 68 photograph, Christine Nettleton; Boy and Grandfather Photograph, Lori Nixon; cat photograph, Monia Kanebog;…

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Corsets & Lace: Haute Couture – The Victorian Age

Bysuehar

My current novel-in-progress is entitled GILT. It’s set during the 1870s in New York City. I’m definitely a country girl (actually a backwoods girl), but the first time I visited New York (I was seventeen.), I fell in love with that huge, gritty (grittier then than now), glorious, amazing metropolis. In subsequent visits, both on…

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MAKING STRANGE

Bysuehar

Wild Word Friday! When my family first moved to our little town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, some of the phrases and words used by local folks weren’t familiar to us.  One of these phrases was MAKING STRANGE.  When you were introduced to a baby for the first (or fifth) time and he began to wail, his…

Interview

Bysuehar

Last Saturday, I had the privilege of being interviewed by Ray Case, the editor of “Encompass Magazine.” The magazine is regional to the southwestern area of Michigan, but Ray and the staff have wonderful plans for expansion, and I’m very excited that they chose to interview me for one of their articles. I will let you…