I have prevailed upon one of my friends to be a guest today—Regency author Camille Elliot, who also writes Christian romantic suspense as Camy Tang. She grew up in Hawaii, where she started reading Regency romances when she was thirteen years old. She graduated from Stanford University in psychology with a focus on biology, and…
There comes a time in a woman’s life when she needs a new corset, that most intimate and reality-altering bit of personal engineering. A corset is the bane of young Lizzie’s existence, if you’ll recall from the opening pages of A Lady of Resources. But for me, circumstances were different. I didn’t want one to…
Do not mess with steampunk women, for you are crunchy and taste good with absinthe.
I feel a bit like a ball in an old-fashioned pinball machine, careening from one culture to another and back again in the space of a few minutes. Why? Because I’m an author who writes both steampunk as Shelley Adina and Amish fiction as Adina Senft … and because I’m at a steampunk event in…
An old proverb that no Native American person probably ever said goes something like, “You can’t judge another man unless you walk a mile in his moccasins.” That may be true in life … but for me, it’s certainly true when I’m writing. Because I’m a costumer. Several years ago I was researching a Regency…