Quenby Olson

Tag: history

The Perils of Travel in Historical Fiction: A Guest Post by Caroline Warfield

April 24, 2017

Fiction, historical

Travel presents a challenge to any writer of historical fiction. I once asked my brother, a navy veteran, how long it would take to sail from Ostia to Genoa and he said, “That would depend on the ship, the tides, the winds, and the weather.” Not much help! Luckily there are sources that can give…
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How to be Pregnant (in Regency England)

April 19, 2017

historical

My next release, The Firstborn (yes, I WILL find a way to slip that into every conversation from now until… oh, let’s say summer) features a baby named George. He’s chubby and smooshy and spits up on people at inopportune moments, but let’s go back a bit and examine what it was like to be…
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