I'm the Canadian historical fiction author of the Passage of Time saga. I was lifestyles editor/writer for a daily newspaper & taught ESL in South Korea. The Butterfly Shawl is the 2nd book in the time travel romance series. The setting is early Denver at the time of the Pike's Peak gold rush.

Sandra, I'm new to Bluesky and may have inadvertently direct messaged you. My apologies. I wondered if you wanted to do a guest interview on my blog. No money involved!! You can view the blog interview I did with British author M J Watts via my author website: www.helentdoan.com

Thanks, Sandra. You, too.

Congratulations, Paul.

Thanks, Shanna Lee.

The hardest, but most fun, are writing love scenes. I've been told my dialogue is natural sounding so I guess that is the easiest part of writing for me.

Glad you're back. It's easy to get sidetracked. What worked for me was relocating my office from a busy spot in the house, to what used to be the spare bedroom. It has a door I can close.😜
Here's a photo of me hiking New Zealand's Tongariro Alpine Crossing.

I agree. I'm an author and my time travel books focus on the 1850s/1860s in the American west. They were exciting times, with the Pike's Peak gold rush & and the birth of the fledgling Cherry Creek settlements of Auraria & Denver City. Certainly movie worthy! Get the popcorn ready...

Some of my husband's military minatures.

He died in 1985...he was older than me. He had a ton of unpainted soldiers that I kept until a year ago, when I gave them to someone I knew would appreciated them. My husband was on the D-Day invasion & wounded on the way to Caen.

Hi Paul...my late husband painted military miniatures. His focus was the Napoleonic age, but also did WW2 and American Revolution figures. No matter the era or the focus, it's a nice hobby.