When Neil and I were making plans to visit Eastern Europe, one of the reasons we selected a river cruise was the opportunity to see the Iron Gate Gorge in Serbia. Many ancient peoples settled in the Gorge area. One of the sites, Lepenski Vir, dates back to 6500 B.C. Perfect “fodder” for my novel…
So…we’re in Belgrade, Serbia, and our tour today includes a walk around the Kalemegdan Fortress. The fortress dates back to the 1700s, but a fortified settlement has occupied this same high bluff since 300 B.C. In one form or another, the fortress has seen at least 115 battles and was razed to the ground 44…
One of our guides describes the shape of Croatia as that of a bird flying. Check out the purple image on the map, and you’ll see her description is accurate, with one “wing” of Croatia lying along the Adriatic Sea and the other slanting inland to follow the Danube River. As I mentioned in my…
I have loved horses since I was very young, and one of the “characters” in my novel-in-progress, BONE FIRE, is a horse. Horses from 5000 B.C. (the timeline of the novel) were quite different from horses today. They were smaller, with large heads, and the insides of their legs were striped, like zebra legs. One…
When I began the research for BONE FIRE, it didn’t take me long to decide that I needed to visit the area where most of the novel takes place — the lower Danube River. After a few months of consideration, my husband Neil and I decided that a Viking River Cruise was exactly what we…
Since about 2001, I’ve been studying a re-constructed language that is considered the mother tongue of most European languages. Linguists tell us that more than 400 languages have their roots in that ancient Indo-European tongue. You might enjoy seeing a map that puts that all into perspective: The dark green areas are countries in which…
The first day of our trip, Neil and I leave home at noon, and on our way to the airport we stop at our local Main Street Cafe to have lunch. An easy beginning! Then we drive a short 12 miles to our local airport, Chippewa International and board the flight to Detroit Metro Airport:…
Congratulations to Gail Storey who won our March Free Book, A BROKEN KIND OF BEAUTIFUL by Katie Ganshert. Gail, I’ll get the book in the mail to you ASAP! We’ll be giving away another book in May! Hooray! Happy Reading! Sue
Congratulations to Gina Weatherly who won our January 2015 Free Book, UNBROKEN!! I’ll mail your new book to you ASAP, Gina. Happy Reading!! Many Blessings, Sue
Maybe you’ve recently seen — and loved — the movie UNBROKEN, but the book is even better!! That’s why we’re giving away a copy on my blog this month!! UNBROKEN (A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption) by Laura Hillenbrand was hailed as the top nonfiction Book of the Year by…
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