by Chris Karlsen | Mar 23, 2023 | Blog
My father taught history. The politics, culture, and people of different periods was a common topic in our house. When I decided to do what I’d secretly wanted to try for many years, write, my long quiet muse went in search of people and events to build a...
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 | 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 | 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...
