by Lucia Robson | Jul 21, 2018 | Blog
When writing of times long past, I always wonder what people found funny. What insults did they use and what invective? What jokes did they tell in taverns and saloons? After finishing a novel set in one era I shift the source materials to another room to make...
by Lucia Robson | Mar 29, 2018 | Blog, Featured On Front Page
My Address Book Is Where I Find Myself Here’s how out of touch I am with modern technology: A friend called to ask...
by Lucia Robson | Aug 19, 2017 | Blog, Featured On Front Page
Loquacious Scribble and the Tuesday Club “Oh, we can make liquor to sweeten our lips Of pumpkins and parsnips and walnut tree chips.” (Vexed and Troubled Englishmen: 1590-1642 by Carl Bridenbaugh) The vexed and troubled English colonists in 17th-century...
by Lucia Robson | Jul 13, 2017 | Blog, Featured On Front Page
On the Road Again The human itch to hit the road goes way back. Much has been written about journeys, starting with the epic poem, the Odyssey. Attributed to the Greek poet Homer,...
by Lucia Robson | Feb 25, 2016 | Blog, Featured On Front Page
Now and then someone will ask where I get my ideas. I resist the temptation to give Isaac Asimov’s answer: “A post office box in Cleveland.” I skip from one era, event, person, or country to another for my novels, so curiosity about what inspires them is...
by Lucia Robson | Oct 24, 2015 | Blog, Featured On Front Page
In 1979, Ballantine Books gave me a contract to write a novel about the Comanches, a culture and tradition completely unknown to this Anglo-American East Coast native. That first venture into historical research raised an unexpected question. In 1836 what made the...