Most of my adventures these days happen in my arm chair. Watching foreign-language dramas on various streaming services. I’ve watched enough now to have noticed a curious phenomenon. Of course, I’ve long been aware that English is currently the world’s donor language. However, I’ve now become aware that one word in particular has had broad […]
Money for Nothing This month Money for Nothing received an Indie Reader Discover Award for 2022. And it won in the category Paranormal. Fun! What did the judges say? “Julie Tetel Andresen’s second installment of the Shapeshifter Series, Money for Nothing, is a truly tantalizing murder mystery and fantasy novel complemented with a bit of […]
Yaroslav the Wise (c.978-20 – 1054) was Grand Prince of Kyiv from 1019 until his death. He married Ingegerd Olofsdotter, the daughter of Olaf Eriksson, King of Sweden. Yaroslav’s father was Volodymyr. He, among other things, brought Christianity to his realm (see map, below). Yaroslav’s grandfather was Sviatoslav. He is known to history as the […]
In 2012 Phillip Carter and I visited Ukraine. We started in Kyiv then took the train to Lviv. The train ride took about nine hours. During that time we went to the restaurant car and began to write our book Languages in the World. How History, Culture, and Politics Shape Language (Wiley Blackwell, 2016). Ten […]
As of yesterday all Russian assets in the United States are frozen. I imagine many properties in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida are among the iciest! Here’s what I wrote about this beachfront town on January 21, 2020: Sunny Isles Beach – that’s Санни Айлс Бич (Sanni Ayles Bich) to the locals. Namely, the Russians. You […]
I am delighted to introduce my readers to author and editor Holly Hilliard. We’ve known one another for the past ten years. Ever since she was a student at Duke University. We recently collaborated on a project. I’ll let her tell you about it! Holly Hilliard: What authors inspire you? What kinds of stories put […]
Hibernation. If you know anything about bears, you probably know they hibernate. You might also know about their love for honey and trout and salmon. And maybe you know that mama bears are, well, mama bears. You don’t mess with them. Title image: Courtesy of Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. No copyright infringement is […]
Monday is Saint Valentine’s Day. Cue the flowers and the chocolates. And the free romance novel I’m offering for the day! But first: How did this day devoted to love arise? Saint Valentine’s Day: The Origins Roman Emperor Claudius II had a man named Valentinus executed on February 14, 269 AD. The reasons vary. One. […]
Part of the fun of writing shapeshifter stories is to inhabit the world of the shifter animal. In Wealth Whispers – the third in my shapeshifter trilogy – it’s bears. That is to say: werebears. Werebears: Do Your Research First thing to do when writing a shapeshifter story: read up on the animal. As I’ve […]
Six years ago I first read about online love scams in a New York Times article. At the same time I met the lawyer for a professor at a local university. (I’m in North Carolina). The lawyer told me how the professor had fallen into the clutches of an online love scammer. Long story short, […]