Still Under Construction
After over a month, I am still finding my way around the blog builder. It is now December 22, and I am determined to get something workable by January 1, 2026. We will see how that goes.
Hazel Hart is a writer and editor of historical and contemporary fiction.

After over a month, I am still finding my way around the blog builder. It is now December 22, and I am determined to get something workable by January 1, 2026. We will see how that goes.
First, this post is mainly my trial run on how to organize blog posts on the WordPress site. I can publish a post, but I have no idea where on the site it will appear, or even if what I…
It is November 12, 2025 as I write this. I have read instructions, watched videos, made multiple attempts to edit this page, and I haven’t had much success. Here’s hoping this will work. If you are reading this, I have achieved today’s goal.
The Night Before Christmas, my first novel, took thirty years from the first draft to publication.

In the 1960s, I majored in English thinking once I learned the rules of grammar and sentence structure, they would stay the same. Little did I know. New style guides come out every year with updated rules.
And then there are the words. What was a receipt in the nineteenth century is a recipe now. As soon as I figure out how to add a link to the post, I’ll do that.