My deepest thanks to Yvonne Lorenzo for reviewing Abducting Arnold on LRC a few days ago (don’t worry: if you didn’t pick up your copy then, you can do so now!). Yvonne is the sort of reader every novelist wants: perceptive, eager, sensitive. She especially thrilled me by noting that Abducting Arnold transported her “back to that critical moment of history, the birth of America.” Acting as a time-machine for readers is exactly what I’d hoped to do! I despise historical fiction that dresses characters with modern sensibilities in breeches while sprinkling a few candles about almost as much as … Continue reading More “Libertarian Summer Reading”