A couple of months ago I was invited to join the ladies who post on a blog called Favorite PASTImes. It focuses completely on historical fiction (which I’m having a lot of fun with since that’s the direction my novel writing has taken). On Mondays several of us rotate posting about all sorts of historical things, from new historical novels to things we’ve learned in our research to things that happen on a particular date. We interview an author each week and spread that info over Tuesday and Wednesday. Thursday is a book review, and on Friday we announce the person who won the week’s book give-away. It’s been a great experience and I’d love for you to check out what we have there, especially if you enjoy reading historical novels.

It’s my turn to have a post today, and I wrote about tear vases — something you might have heard of but that was new to me when I visited the Center for Biblical Antiquity a few weeks ago. Hop over and check it out!