Renee Yancy

Renee Yancy has been living vicariously through historical fiction since she was a young girl. Some of her favorite books are Shogun by James Clavell, Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, and Cold Sassytree by Olive Ann Burns.\n\nShe discovered Anya Seton and Pearl Buck in her teens, and spent her freshman year in high school reading every book about Cornwall, England that she could find. She is an archaeology buff as well and plans to go on a dig someday. Her goal is to make her stories as historically and archaeologically accurate as possible.\n\nEvery object she describes, from jewelry, dishes, furniture and glassware, are actually in museums all over the world. The food and recipes in her books are authentic recipes gleaned from intensive research. She has visited Ireland, Scotland, and England to stand in the places where her characters lived. \n\nShe is presently working on a novel about the Pandemic Flu of 1918.\n