Alternate Scene from ‘The Bee-Loud Glade’

Publisher’s Note: With today’s official release of The Bee-Loud Glade, we thought it would be enlightening to ask author Steve Himmer to provide an outtake from his debut novel. The following excerpt did not make the book’s final cut for reasons that...

The Decorative Hermit: Inspiration for a Novel

KENSINGTON, MD — Inspirations for novels come from various places, sometimes even a television show. In “The Worst Jobs in History,” program host Tony Robinson examines the 18th-century hermit, living in the Georgian Age of landscape art, “lurking in...