Kit Cole's Blog
November 18, 2015
An image of 1850s fashion
It’s always important for me to keep a visual image of my characters. This is how I see Major Trenton and his sister in my mind.
October 25, 2015
A map of 1887 Washington
As Major Trenton James Harris makes his way though 19th century Washington D.C. I found this map in my online research.
Map of Washington, D.C., and environs : with marginal numbers and measuring tape attachment for instantly locating points of interest within a radius of twenty miles from the Capitol
February 20, 2015
New book cover designed by Amanda Trickey
All images were obtained via standard royalty free license. Image credit �� Rob Byron/Dollar Photo Club & �� Perseomedusa/Dollar Photo Club where necessary. Cover art design by Amanda Trickey Art.
Sometimes you get really lucky in the friends you make on the interwebs, and this is one of those times.
The super-talented Amanda Trickey has designed a new cover for Justice for all Time and I couldn’t be happier with it. Check it out and give the woman props in the comments and on the twitter (she’s��@trickeytricky ).
She’s looking for new clients, so hit her up on twitter if you’ve got book cover requests – she’s fast, really good and super-easy to work with.
October 16, 2014
Nurse Penny’s Day Dress
A printed muslin day dress, circa 1855, with gathers to pointed V at front waist, tiered skirt, bust approx 76cm, 30in, waist 61cm; together with an American Braided Wire Co bustle with printed eagle trademark 1870s or 80s (2)
Found this dress today on Pinterest and it’s exactly what I am looking for!
This is what Penny wears to her first dinner in the 1850s in Washington.
October 12, 2014
Free weekend on Kindle
This is awesome – we just hit 1000 downloads for Justice for all Time‘s free weekend on Kindle!
Love it. I really hope you all enjoy it and that I get bunches of new reviews from it!
June 30, 2014
A take-off from Justice for all Time
Sometimes your fans are really smart, as in the case of C. Hawkins on Amazon:
Well as you suggest, Captain Harris is going to get his own story, though not exactly in the way you would like – so I hope you still enjoy it when it’s done. My feeling is that Captain Harris is only able to come so far, only able to wrap his very traditional head around SO much before he may actually implode. Therefore I am sending someone his way to distract his recently broken heart and her name is Penny.
The working title is Time has no meaning here, but that may change.
I’m four chapters in and trucking along – stay tuned for more soon!
June 27, 2014
The Asylum
This is St. Elizabeth’s Hospital – an asylum that was built in Washington D.C. in the 1850s and the site of this scene I am writing for Penny’s arrival in 1856.
May 28, 2014
April 12, 2014
So you want to write time travel?
This is a good piece about writing time travel – take a look at Monique’s article on Kobo Writing Life.
Originally posted on Kobo Writing Life:
By Monique Martin
Writing time travel takes someone who loves history, but can embrace fantasy. It’s reality-adjacent. It also helps if you were dropped on your head as a small child because you have to be crazy to want to do it. Of course, all writers have a certain baseline of crazy, but I think time travel writers have an added masochistic streak.
Like their cousins, the historical fiction writer (I’m parsing out non-fiction, because they’re a completely different kind of crazy, amiright?), the time travel writer has to love history and research. Love it so much you might actually own vintage pantaloons or civil war bandages. Love it so much last Halloween you went as Haile Selassie. Love it so much that if you ever met Thomas Alva Edison, you might sock him on the nose.
You have to love it because you’ll spend the next few months (or…
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January 26, 2014
Modelling Donatella after my favourite thief
Ok, a bit of a spoiler-alert, Dona is a thief, like Neil Caffrey from WHITE COLLAR. I love Neil and I’m kind of modelling Dona after him.
