Silent films and the era in which they were popular (approx. 1891-1927) have fascinated many. But have you ever wondered what it would be...

You’ve likely heard of movie scenes, even whole characters, being cut from a film, forever lost during the editing process. The same goes...

What girl wouldn’t want a few extra clothes; especially at someone else’s expense? How about a closet full of them? In Dear Maude, Emily...

Some say love is the universal language. I happen to believe that music is, because, despite the language a song is written in or how...

Bordello, cathouse, brothel, house of ill repute, call them what you will, but a story about early New York wouldn’t be complete without...

Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism were all the rage in 1910. Think Picasso and Matisse, and you’ll have a good idea of what the art world looked...

In time travel fiction, something—a machine, a watch, a phone booth, standing stones, etc.—transports the character(s) back in time. For...

From Typhoid Fever to the Spanish Influenza, early twentieth-century diseases were widespread, often pandemics, which affected young and...

Students used it, teachers used it, and business people used it; in fact, anyone who could write used it. Even today Spencerian Script is...

In Dear Maude, Emily Stanton’s training involves the popular pursuits of a 1910 lady of society, including riding sidesaddle. For those...

Corsets top Emily Stanton’s lists of avoidable undergarments in Dear Maude, For the Love of Maude, and Forever Maude, the books of The...

In Dear Maude, Book 1 of The Dear Maude Trilogy, the protagonist, Emily Stanton, is from St. Helens, a rural town just outside Portland,...

I’m often asked for some backstory on my books—information regarding the people, places, and things from Dear Maude and beyond. Well,...