by Alena Mentink | Mar 7, 2025 | History
Have you ever taken time to read through an old newspaper? I did so quite a bit as I researched for A Time of Proving. Newspapers give an excellent feel for the writing style of the time and also provide insight into what occupied people’s minds....
by Alena Mentink | Mar 6, 2025 | Books, Home to Osceola
My Home to Osceola series is fictional. The characters are created out of my own head and the plot is formed as I put those characters through hard circumstances. You won’t find my stories in the history books, sorry to say (or perhaps not so sorry since no real...
by Alena Mentink | Mar 5, 2025 | Books
With another book that just released, now seems like the perfect time to talk about why I choose to write historical fiction. There could be a couple answers for that. The History, of Course. I love diving into the past and exploring the way things used to...
by Alena Mentink | Mar 4, 2025 | Books, Home to Osceola
With most of my books, I can remember the moment an idea took fire and started spinning itself into a book. One scene jumps to life vividly, and then bit by bit, the rest of the details of the story follow. Not every author works that way. To each their own...
by Alena Mentink | Mar 3, 2025 | Home to Osceola
People talk about having “a sense of place.” You know how it is, the ties you have to a certain area, whether that’s a specific house or piece of land or part of the country. Both Jase and Miriam crave that sense of belonging in A Time of...
