Friday Finds – May 29, 2026 | Cozy Weekend Reads & Thoughtful Father's Day Finds ginaraemitchell.com/friday-finds... @ginamitchell.bsky.social

Historical chemist researchers extracted living clues from three 500-year-old letters written by voivode Vlad III Dracula of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.

#BookReview of The Hope Keeper by Heather Webb www.swirlandthread.com/the-hope-kee... @maireadhearne.bsky.social

When the world demands you choose a side, what part of yourself are you willing to lose?

Smorgasbord Blog Magazine Weekly Round Up 18th-24th May - Big Band Era, Chart Toppers and Movie Hits, Cuisine Oman, Book Reviews, Tai Chi, New Short Story series, Wonderful Bloggers smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2026/05/24/s... @sallycronin.bsky.social

Between Vlad III Dracula, the mortal prince of Wallachia, and the immortal Count Dracula of fiction, Dracula is not a single figure at all. He is a succession of shadows, each generation reshaping the last.

💕Smorgasbord Book Promotions 2026 - Share an Excerpt - Boost one of your books - #Poetry #Art  Burning Butterflies: Poetry About Southern African Flora and Fauna by Robbie Cheadle smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2026/05/23/s... @sallycronin.bsky.social @robbiecheadle.bsky.social

Winding Up the Week #471 bookjotter.com/2026/05/23/w... @bookjotter.bsky.social

#BookReview of Walking to the Foot of the Sky by Miriam Mulcahy | @mirmulcahy.bsky.social www.swirlandthread.com/walking-to-t... @maireadhearne.bsky.social

Medieval letters with folded paper locks were shaped by risk and control. By letterlocking folded pages showed tampering. From Vlad III Dracula’s seals to Mary Queen of Scots epistles reflected how secrecy and survival shaped written messages.

Looking forward to #newrelease by @abelfrageauthor.bsky.social Welcoming my 24th book baby - Queen of Shadows is here! www.annabelfrage.com/2026/05/21/w...

Write Smarter with Rebecca Spelman www.swirlandthread.com/write-smarte... @maireadhearne.bsky.social

Roberta Writes - TDWC26, W3, and The Flower Hour roberta-writes.com/2026/05/19/r... @robbiecheadle.bsky.social

Smorgasbord Posts from Your Archives 2026 - Posts from last six months of 2025 - #Writing #Expletives by Laura Lyndhurst smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2026/05/20/s... @sallycronin.bsky.social

Faust: Unraveling the Great Enigma - S2 E6 Before The Library rebeccasreadingroom.ca/2026/05/19/f... @rebeccabudd.bsky.social

How Short Stories Actually Hold Entire Lifetimes and Why It's Important alluringcreations.co.za/wp/how-short... via @patfurstenberg.bsky.social

Simple Pleasures: Reading and Eating - When Secrets Bloom by Patricia Furstenberg, a Review and a recipe for stuffed cabbage rolls latinosenglishedition.blog/2026/05/20/s... @patfurstenberg.bsky.social

Faust: Unraveling the Great Enigma – S2 E6 Before The Library Before We Meet Faust Before entering Faust’s study, before meeting the man who has read everything and yet feels empty, Sarah and I felt the need to pause. Goethe does not begin his great drama with despair. He begins with remembrance.…

Reading and cooking: Robbie Cheadle reviews When Secrets Bloom on Latinos USA and I share a historical recipe for Transylvanian sarmale with mushrooms, not pork.

When an empire falls, what truly ends… and what quietly survives?

Lies to Forever by Marlene M. Bell | A Fast-Paced Domestic Thriller Filled with Betrayal and Suspicion ginaraemitchell.com/lies-to-fore... @ginamitchell.bsky.social

There are places that tourists visit, photograph, and then forget. And then there are those places that get lodged in your heart for years. Like the sound and the sight of the sea just before dawn or the smell of smoke caught in a jacket long after the fire has died.

When history is reduced to a single moment of fire and impact, what remains of the men who stood within it? #HistoricalFiction #NavalHistory

Friday Finds – May 15, 2026 | Thoughtful Reads, Outdoor Favorites & Spring Celebration ginaraemitchell.com/friday-finds... @ginamitchell.bsky.social

Heroica - Ms Morton's troika of courageous ladies www.annabelfrage.com/2026/05/15/h... @abelfrageauthor.bsky.social @alisonmorton.bsky.social

#BookReview of #LoveScene by Anna Carey www.swirlandthread.com/love-scene-a... @maireadhearne.bsky.social

Smorgasbord Posts from Your Archives 2026 - Posts from last six months of 2025 - #shortstory - The Great Escape of Walter T Pickett by Jim L. Wright smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/s... @sallycronin.bsky.social

How Short Stories Actually Hold Entire Lifetimes and Why It's Important looks at emotional intensity, the challenge of writing historical fiction short stories and how to do it.

Let us Talk of Many Things; of Books and Queens and Pirates, of Mystery and Kings NEW ANTHOLOGY COMING SOON! `~°•○☆○•°~` COURAGE: Tales of History, Mystery and Hope `~°•○☆○•°~` ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.com/?spref=tw #historicalfiction #readingcommunity #NewBook

RJ's Adventures in Temecula by Eva Legre-Zigre | Children's Book Review ginaraemitchell.com/rjs-adventur... @ginamitchell.bsky.social

Pre-Order TODAY. This anthology gathers an extraordinary fellowship of historical storytellers, each lending their voice to a different century, a different trial. OUT 17 June.

New Book Announcement: COURAGE: Tales of History, Mystery and Hope mybook.to/COURAGE-Anth... Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision to face it. 15 #HistoricalFiction #shortstories #preorder now Out 17 JUNE #TuesNews #readingcommunity #HistFic #anthology

When the world you know begins to fade, do you fight to preserve it… or find the courage to begin again?

History is often written by those in power but shaped, quietly and irrevocably, by those who stand close enough to witness, and brave enough to remember. Is history defined by those who rule… or by those who bear witness? #HistoricalFiction #BookLove #weekendreads

COVER REVEAL - Courage: Tales of History, Mystery and Hope, a historical fiction anthology. 15 lives drawn from across time, each poised at the brink of fear. They endure. They remain.

Fabulous review by Patricia Furstenberg of my A MISCHIEF OF MURDER #CosyMystery #1970s #DevonVillage alluringcreations.co.za/wp/a-mischie...

#GHOSTENCOUNTERS What distinguishes this book is no urgency to convince, no reliance on spectacle just measured curiosity not apparitions to be feared, shaped by empathy not alarm drawing the reader into echoes of national upheaval that ripple through time alluringcreations.co.za/wp/ghost-enc...

So excited to share: COVER REVEAL - NEW ANTHOLOGY COMING SOON! ♡◇•°☆☆☆☆☆°◇♡ COURAGE - Tales of History, Mystery and Hope ♡◇•°☆☆☆☆☆•◇♡ "Courage is not the absence of fear – it is the decision to face it." ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.com/2026/05/cove... @helenhollick.bsky.social

I am excited to serve as a volunteer judge for the 2026 History Through Fiction Short Story Contest. Submissions open June 15 - August 15. For historical fiction writers.

✨️Woo-hoo! #ComingSoon: COURAGE: Tales of History, Mystery and Hope Pre-order May 25 🗓 Out June 25 Courage is not the absence of fear. It is the decision to face it. Fifteen lives. Fifteen moments at the edge of fear. None turn back. #Courage #HistoricalFiction #Anthology

Sister Rosa’s Rebellion by Carolyn Hughes, the Weight of Silence #MedievalFiction #BookReview #TuesdayBookBlog 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #BookReview "The novel’s power comes from its precision: the daily frictions of a woman whose skill makes her valuable and whose gender makes her dangerous." Mybook.to/wsb #BookLove #HistoricalFiction #Transylvania #weekendreads #Bookx

In GHOST The Lingering Spirits Of North Devon , mother and daughter share their personal experiences, dispelling the belief that spirits are to be feared. #Devon #GhostStories #BookLovers #weekendreads

Roberta Writes - d'Verse: Haibun Monday & Esther Chilton's Writing Challenge roberta-writes.com/2026/04/28/r... @robbiecheadle.bsky.social

🏰 A #medieval #Monday on my blog: Real Places in Historical Fiction: Brașov in When Secrets Bloom alluringcreations.co.za/wp/real-plac...

Smorgasbord Blog Magazine - A-Z World Cuisines with Carol Taylor - Discovering the Cuisine of Norway…The Land of the Midnight Sun! smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2026/04/22/s... @sallycronin.bsky.social

King Henry V had much to prove—to himself as well as the rest of Europe. By the time the English reached Agincourt, they were starving, exhausted, and easy pickings. Or so the French thought. THE AGINCOURT KING #KU buff.ly/43Zbjhz / #Audio: www.chirpbooks.com/authors/merc...

Smorgasbord Book Promotions - New Book Spotlight - #Fantasy #Magic - Tales from the Irish Garden: The Missing Pieces by Sally Cronin smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/s... @sallycronin.bsky.social

Ascent: A story of danger, adversity, and love by Cathie Dunn @cathiedunn.bsky.social alluringcreations.co.za/wp/ascent-a-... #BookReview #historicalfiction #weekendreads

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