Tag: historical fiction Archives · Wendy Orr

Dragonfly photo sent by my cousin when she heard the title Happy birth day to my newest baby: Dragonfly Song. You’ve been a long time coming. The dragonfly theme in the book…

I’ve just spent a day with the archaeologist Sabine Beckmann in Gournia, Crete. I’ve found and held sherds of pottery that are more than 4000 years old, held a stone tool that…

Sometimes it’s difficult to distinguish research from ‘bright shiny object’ distraction. When you’re planning a new book that needs solid research for its background, every new thread seems so exciting that it’s…

As a little gift for the Year of the Goat, I’m posting the first chapter of Across the Dark Sea, which begins with the first day of Tet, the Vietnamese New Year.…

Inspiration, story ideas – they’re all around us, in everything that we see and hear, think and do, every day of our lives. But sometimes a particular story needs more specific inspiration,…