: About Me

Writing historical fiction is not for everyone, for certain. I like non-fiction because it is what really happened, but sometimes a true story doesn't have a whole lot of interest. There may be some interesting facts, but not all of the story is interesting. So, historical fiction is the best of both. Take the historical facts of an event or time in someone's life and add a little imagination! I was in a college writing class which was teaching us different forms of fiction when I discovered an amazing story. I read a book about the Sultana, a steamboat that sunk during the Civil War. The ...