by bapadmin | Feb 7, 2021 | Blog
Grab your copy of A Venomous Love I’m excited to share that A Venomous Love is on the short list for the CIBA awards (Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards) in the mystery and mayhem category. You can visit their website...
by bapadmin | Mar 21, 2020 | Blog
A Venomous Love is now live See what readers are saying: A VENOMOUS LOVE by Chris Karlsen – Victorian Detective, Historical Thriller, Suspense Mystery Chris Karlsen’s Books Read An Excerpt Here Puzzled, Ruddy asked, “You say the...
by Drue Hoffman | Nov 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
Cranberry Brie Bites Yields: 24 Prep Time: 20 minutes Total Time: 35 minutes 1 8oz. tube of crescent dough Cooking spray for pan Flour for surface 1 8oz. wheel of brie ½ cup whole berry cranberry sauce ¼ cup chopped pecans 6 sprigs of rosemary cut into 1” pieces....
by Drue Hoffman | Nov 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
Baldric: A broad belt or girdle, often richly ornamented, passing over one shoulder, across the breast, and under the other, supporting sword, dagger, or bugle. From the Lady of Shalott by Lord Tennyson *The gemmy bridle glittered free Like to some branch of stars we...
by Drue Hoffman | Sep 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
I am speaking for myself in this article. But I believe with many of the genres we love, we enjoy them because the hero or heroine elicit either sympathy or empathy. For example, in Bernard Cornwell’s historicals, we empathize with the men on the battlefield....
by Drue Hoffman | Apr 7, 2018 | Blog, Historical Factoids, Victorian
Historical Factoids – 2018 Victorian Era England London’s famous fog of the period is not exaggerated. At time during the year appeared yellow in color, was at the worst in November. In the winter months, the fog stretched to the surrounding towns and villages....
by Drue Hoffman | Apr 7, 2018 | Blog, Historical Recipes
Historical Tidbit Medieval Recipes A modest list of spices available to the medieval cook: Cardamom, cinnamon, clove, cubeb (tailed pepper), galangal, ginger, grains of Paradise, mastic, nutmeg, mace, black pepper, long pepper, saffron, sugar, sumac, salt. Source...
by Drue Hoffman | Apr 1, 2018 | Historical Factoids
Victorian period In Victorian London each parish in the city had a jakesman (refuse officer) who cleaned out the public facilities. The carts of “refuse” was transported out of the city at night. During the Victorian period, powdered chalk and cuttlefish...
by Drue Hoffman | Apr 1, 2018 | Historical Factoids, Medieval
Medieval Three of the most celebrated medieval English victories are: Crecy, Poitiers, and Agincourt. All three took place during the Hundred Years War between England and France. Crecy: 1346. Poitiers: 1356, and Agincourt: 1415. Eleanor of Aquitaine,...
by Drue Hoffman | Apr 1, 2018 | Blog, Historical Factoids, Historical Recipes
Recipes from all Ages Here’s some of the spices they had in the 1300’s in England. Most came back with the English knights who went to the Crusades. black pepper, cinnamon, ginger, saffron, nutmeg, cloves, mace, Spiced...
