Patricia Furstenberg, Writer of Historical Fiction, Children's Books
Travel via Stories
Laura Lyndhurst’s FATAL, new release on Amazon Contemporary Urban Fiction, is a tense, morally complex contemporary thriller set in modern suburban England. Congratulations, Laura!
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This week brought news I have been quietly hoping for since my latest novel When Secrets Bloom first found its readers: a review from the Historical Novel Society. Penned by Williamaye Jones, the review is available on their website and is published in their print magazine Historical Novel Review HNR Issue 115 (February 2026).
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In fifteenth-century Transylvania, marriage was not a private affair. It was a public instrument. A legal mechanism. A way of (finally) being seen.
Continue reading “A Proven Historical Pressure Cooker: Marriage as Surveillance”
We are creatures of imagination and we understand the world by telling stories about it. Before chronicles hardened into dates and rulers. Before ink fixed memory into law. Stories softened fear, explained loss, they gave shape to grief. In Transylvania, where mountains fold memory into stone and winter teaches patience, stories do not merely entertain. They endure.
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Too Far Standing Still is the third fast-paced, character-driven psychological drama / suspense novel set in New York City, written by talented Lisette Brodey.
How far would you go to realize your dreams?
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