Visit Sarah Johnson's blog "Reading the Past" http://readingthepast.blogspot.com/
where she has posted a guest blog I wrote about my research for The Sword and the Well in Syria shortly before the civil war.

Also, I just got back from Denver where the North American Historical Novel Society Conference board and I started planning next year's conference. Mark your calendars; it's going to be great. My board of hardworking, devoted and brilliant folks will see to that. They are: Maryka Biaggio, Daniel Willis, Theresa Guzman Stokes, Meenoo Mishra and Susan Pruett.