Beneath the Same Stars has received a “BIG 5-STAR” review from Chick Lit Café. “A historical fiction masterpiece…. This novel deserves to win awards…. highly recommended to all historical fiction readers.” Read the full review…
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Note: This blog post was submitted today as a speak-out to the Brookings (SD) Register, my local newspaper. Imagine a large piece of prime farmland where your relatives have lived for generations, getting married, working hard,…
I’m trying to finish a novel. I’m under contract to produce a poetry anthology. I have a speech to prepare. No shortage of things to do. But sometimes a writer has to take time to…
I’m writing to ask your help. Perhaps you’ve been following the strong nonviolent resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline, particularly on the part of native peoples who have established the Red Warrior Camp in its…
This past Saturday I drove down to Flandreau, South Dakota, to meet some Dakota friends who are advising me on the novel I’m writing about the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. At the end of our…
A little celebration today: I just completed another major portion of my novel-in-progress about Sarah Wakefield. Onward and upward! As a little marker in this climb, I thought I’d share with you this photograph of…
Sarah Brown Wakefield For those of you who enjoy photographs and are interested in the U.S. Dakota War of 1862, here’s a heads-up! I’ve just started “Sarah Wakefield Fictional Biography Project,” a Pinterest board where…
Yesterday I received word of the death of Elden Lawrence, a Dakota elder who has sometimes assisted me in my research on my historical novel-in-progress. Elden’s Dakota great-grandfather, Lorenzo Towanetiton Lawrence, led to safety three…
I spent much of the past few days at Wingsprings, near Martin, SD. This is the home, still being constructed, of my friend Craig Howe, a brilliant architect and scholar, and a proud Lakota. Photographs…
This is a fun photo from today’s Brookings Register, the newspaper in the town where our family resides. It shows Brookings as it appeared sometime during the 1890s. We were able to locate our house…
You might recall that I’m currently working on a novel about the life of Sarah Wakefield, who wrote a book about her captivity among the Dakota Indians during the US-Dakota War of 1862. If you’d…
Henry Sibley oversaw the military commission. On this date, November 5, in 1862, a military commission concluded the trials of more than 300 Dakota men and condemned them to death for participating in the US-Dakota…
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