In The Deadliest Lie, we learn about Miriam’s tutor, Hector, and why her father purchased a tutor for her. Aunt Hannah explains: When...

Okay, okay. I get other questions too. Lucy asked, “Why did you feel you had to write a mystery about her?” “You mean why did I have to...

I began imagining Miriam bat Isaac when in 1987 I encountered Maria Hebrea. I was taking a course on the historical development of...

When I make presentations to organizations and book clubs, I am often asked these two questions: How did you come to create Miriam bat...

Without steel needles, sewing was a difficult craft in the first-century CE. The women had a few simple garments with little shape. The...

I’ll be in Pequannock on Sunday, June 4 from 11:00—5:00 PM at the Street Festival on the corner of Jackson and Turnpike, Pompton Plains...

If you read this blog regularly—and I hope you do—my guess is you read novels regularly too. So, I thought you might enjoy knowing how...

Every once in a while, I prepare a column on some aspect of novel writing for Book Daily. I was looking over some already published,...

Perhaps to you the word “alchemy” conjures up images of sinister laboratories, black-robed sorcerers, or even quackery. Still, for...

The Romans were especially clever at establishing severe methods of execution. Crucifixion was a long-drawn out penalty, not exactly...