Ethard Wendel Van Stee's Historical Fiction Books Page
Whether in the form of novels
or plays, Van Stee delivers historical fiction that entertains as well as
informs:
The Monks of Arden, Madimi,and
Buboes (romance), The Hangman
and
The
Bloodstone (mystery), Moira's Scythe (slave days in North Carolina), The Remarkable Life of Frances Emily Steele,
and A Woman of No Means
(an emancipated woman).
Whatever happened to style in writing? Has it grown so
transparent as to disappear altogether?
Good writing is good writing, wherever it is found. My goal is to help you
become a sculptor of words as you pursue the art of fiction. Some of what I
have gleaned over the years, as heir to an older tradition, I offer to you
in this extended essay
Madimi and
The Monks of Arden available now.
Please order all books through your local bookseller,
Keep that young adult reader in your family with
her nose in a book. The Monks of Arden is a another gem from the pen of
Ethard Wendel Van Stee. Set in medieval England, it will keep her enchanted for
hours. Princesses disappointed in love, wicked knights who seek to take
advantage of them, they’re all here. Don’t miss it. Available from all outlets including your local
bookseller as well as Internet book stores.
Madimi should definitely be a best seller, better than Dan Brown. It
is a
marvelous mix of mystery, blood and gore, sex, and supernatural forces. You have
painted many vivid representations of various ages 13th – 20th
century. I love your splendid, rich vocabulary and language, details of history,
geography and daily lives of people, their clothing, their utensils jobs, baths
etc. It’s a gripping page-turner, as they say. One reason I like your work so
much better than, for instance, Tolkein, is that, while you have overlaid the
piece with supernatural forces, your references to historical people and places
are accurate, and even add to our understanding and appreciation of some of the
roots of our Western civilization. Bravo. Well done.
