Author of the Omegaverse History of the American Revolution
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It’s Out!
Ahhhhhh! AmazonRomance.ioGoodreads Stubborn Things is now available. I hope you have as much fun reading it as I did writing it. Abijah and Matthew were a treat to write, if not a treat for…
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Captain Thomas Preston’s Worst Fear: Porteous
Warning for a brief description of torture. The above is an actual post in the pro-independence newspaper the Boston Gazette, taken out a mere five days after the Massacre by the captain accused of…
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Visiting Bunker Hill
The actual memorial is beautiful and was erected over a process that took 18 years (between 1825 and 1843). It’s surrounded by green grass and, for a couple weeks in June of this very…
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Ensign John Ness Ends Up in a Mess
Let’s continue with our quest to explain the context of Boston’s relationship with the British regulars leading up to the Boston Massacre… in advance of Stubborn Things, which comes out in 9 days (eep!)…
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It Gave Me Nightmares and Made Me Cry: The Corpse War of 1793
Mercy: I can’t write omegaverse on the American Revolution, the premise is too weird. Twin: people mix fantasy tropes and genre premises into similar time periods all the time! Ahem. Which brings me to…
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When No One Trusts the System: Alexander Ross and John Riley
Today we continue to set the scene for the Boston Massacre and the rising tensions between the British soldiers and townspeople. Specifically, let’s look at the issues when soldiers committed crimes against the local…
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Visiting Lexington, Concord, and Battle Road
And the very spots that inspired We Are Not Strangers… All along Battle Road (then Bay Road), you will find these sorts of markers. It’s quite sad that we don’t have their names, but…
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Joseph Otis, Odious Gaolkeeper
Trigger warning for this post. Sometimes you read things so upsetting you want to jump through the page/screen and scream, and reading about revolutionary Boston’s gaolkeeper did that to me. The Boston gaol was…
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History, Fiction, or Both?
Obviously, I’m a fiction writer. I obsessively research so I may use details as a trampoline to spring into a (hopefully) compelling story. And I like to think I’m very explicit about that fact…
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Matthew Kilroy – Investigating Hewes’ Account
In a biography published in 1835, George Robert Twelve Hewes (yes, the same one involved in the tarring and feathering of Malcolm incident) relays a very curious and detailed story about how he witnessed…