Throughout the Middle Ages people were terrified of being poisoned and with good reason. Writing in 1470, Peter of Abano, identified 70 d...

I must declare an interest. I based a character in my Stravaganza series on John Dee. William Dethridge is an Elizabethan alchemist, mathe...

Perhaps it is a little wrong-headed of me to pick a fraudster and fake like Cagliostro as my hero, but there is something about the w...

Research for a historical novel can take you to some interesting places, no doubt about that, and it also gives you a chance to...

By Teresa Flavin This month’s sketch is the preliminary drawing for a pen and ink illustration in my young adult novel, The Crimson Sha...

By Teresa Flavin Elizabeth Bird, who blogs for the excellent School Library Journal, recently wrote this entertaining post about the gr...