B is for Bly and Bisland

Busy blog this month. Here is what’s going on: 1. This year for the April Blogging from A to Z Challenge, I’m writing about the 1800s. In particular, I’ll be focusing on the events surrounding  Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s race around the world in 1889 in...

R is for Race Around the World

While doing research for another novel, I stumbled across the name Nellie Bly. She was a reporter who gained fame in the late 1800s for racing around the world in an attempt to beat the “record” from Jules Verne’s novel, Around the World in 80 Days....