Author Sharon Kay Penman’s passion for the history of King Richard III led me to Leicester, England to visit the King under the car park.

Author Sharon Kay Penman’s passion for the history of King Richard III led me to Leicester, England to visit the King under the car park.
Explore the life and techniques of the painter Johannes Vermeer at the Vermeer Centrum in his hometown of Delft, Holland.
I have been a fan of Sharon Kay Penman’s novels since before there was Facebook, and before every author had a blog. If you’d have told me then that thanks to social media I would one day not only meet the author that inspired me to choose history as a college major, but that she would hand me a cupcake for coming to her book reading, I would not have believed you.