How to Stay Sane When You’re Writing Insanity

**WARNING: A few WWII descriptions ahead. Read please, as we should never forget, but read at your own risk.**

Usually I’m entrenched in research about kilts and Henry VIII’s tantrums or the latest terms teens are using. Yes, I write historical romance and YA contemporary romance. But over the last few months I’ve been working on something completely different. Different and hellish.

My grandmother & her sister in Smolensk, Russia. The person they tore out of the picture, whom my aunt is look...