Shut Down
by I will be shutting down this site as of March 1. You can find me and my writing as Edie Cay on www.scarabskinbooks.com and blogs …
Category: Writing
First Chapters Collection
I’m a Paper Lantern Writer, a collective of historical fiction authors, and we are releasing our first volume of FIRST CHAPTERS. It’s free to download at our brand new Paper Lantern’s store. It’s offered as both .epub and .pdf downloads, so it is compatible with whatever e-reader (or other device) you use.
Distraction Ideas
With all the news of Covid-19, we are all in need of some relief from our worry. And, if some of us are self-isolating or …
Gail Byrd’s Pages and Pelicans
I wanted to pass along a friend’s blog post–Gail Byrd is a lovely person, a talented actress, and was one of the very first people …
Books / Inspiration / Writing
Research Phase
This is one of those Nerd Posts: a blog about books and research. And if you parse writing into high school cliques, with literary fiction being the Cool Loners, the commercial men’s fiction as being Popular Athletes, romance the Popular Girls, and Sci-Fi as the kids who play D&D and can’t leave it at home, then Historical Fiction is the realm of the Straight-A, Kind of Annoying Super Nerd. I’m just going to raise my hand right now.
Flu Season
I know it isn’t the flu, because we ended up in the Emergency Room the other day with the kiddo, and they swabbed his nose. …
Books / Inspiration / Writing
Pub(lication) Day is Almost Here for A Lady’s Revenge
February and March Events to celebrate Pub Day of A Lady’s Revenge by Edie Cay! Kicking it off with Pub Day Pub Fun at Servente’s Saloon in downtown Sonora.
Books / Inspiration / Writing
A Lady’s Revenge
I’m very pleased to announce A LADY’S REVENGE by Edie Cay will be published on February 1, 2020. It’s just a few weeks away as …
A Search for Peace: Ann Weisgarber’s The Glovemaker
Published in February 2019 issue of The Historical Novel Review The poorly-defined middle ground Our world is neither black nor white, which might be why …