The writing business is a harsh mistress. Plenty of really good books just fail to catch fire, subsiding under the waves after a few weeks, never to be heard from again. Even big-time household name novelists often have early or simply forgotten novels that have been eclipsed by their later, more celebrated works. That doesn’t […]
Sometimes, historical fiction just doesn’t take you far enough. The Mughal Empire? The Renaissance? Ancient Rome? The building of the pyramids? Kid’s stuff. For readers with a love of history, romance, and adventure, Jean M. Auel’s game-changing 1980 masterpiece Clan of the Cave Bear kicked off a whole new genre of stories that take place […]