Our nation is wrapping up another Thanksgiving holiday as millions of people travel back to their homes tonight.  Most of us look forward to the fourth Thursday in November Thanksgiving and the f… Source: Thoughts of our nation’s first Thanksgiving–Dec. 18, 1777–as we wrap up this weekend Continue reading

Take a break from the election post-mortems and join me on Tuesday, November 15 at 7:30 p.m. as I speak to the Historical Society of Fort Washington at its headquarters, Clifton House, 473 South Bethlehem Pike, Ft. Washington, PA  19034. General George Washington and the Continental Army were encamped at Fort Washington and Whitemarsh after the Battle of… Continue reading

Please join me on Tuesday, November 15 at 7:30 p.m. as I speak to the Historical Society of Fort Washington at its headquarters, Clifton House, 473 South Bethlehem Pike, Ft. Washington, PA  19034. General George Washington and the Continental Army were encamped at Fort Washington and Whitemarsh after the Battle of Germantown on October 4,1777 and up until… Continue reading

On this day in 1777, around midnight, British General Lord Grey and his troops performed a barbaric attack on Paoli’s General Anthony Wayne and his troops as the patriots waited in a Paoli farm hoping to ambush the British who were camped in nearby Tredyffrin. Using only their bayonets, 53 patriots were killed and over… Continue reading

September 11, 1777 was the start of that period of the Revolutionary War called The Philadelphia Campaign.  That was the date of the Battle of Brandywine, the first major engagement of the patriots… Source: The Philadelphia Campaign and Becoming Valley Forge Begins–The Battle of Brandywine, 9/11/1777 Continue reading

Last chance to stock up on your summer reading with The Elevator Group’s $10 per book Summer Book Sale, now extended through Labor Day, September 5!  Click here to purchase direct from The Elevator Group at http://www.TheElevatorGroup.com. All of our award-winning and  best-selling books are now on sale through Labor Day, September 5, 2016. Act now because prices go back up… Continue reading

Catching up on a great review   for my novel Becoming Valley Forge in  July’s Main Line Today magazine.    “This exacting work of historical fiction from Paoli’s Sheilah Vance explores the lives of ordinary men and women—a former slave, a farmer, Army volunteers—as revolution engulfs the region. The perfect beach read for a patriotic month.”  Thank… Continue reading

Stock up on your summer reading with The Elevator Group’s $10 per book Summer Book Sale from now through September 1.  Click here to purchase direct from The Elevator Group at http://www.TheElevatorGroup.com. All of our award-winning and  best-selling books are on sale through September 1, 2016. Enjoy and happy reading! Continue reading

I love Amazon.  They transformed publishing so that self-published authors and independent publishers like me could compete with the big five New York publishers.  Amazon didn’t stigmatize or separate people who self-published, like I did with my first novel, Chasing the 400.  Amazon made it possible for me to even think about then becoming an independent publisher… Continue reading