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.
I recently saw an advertisement for a contest in which the winner would get to spend the night in a haunted hotel in Las Vegas. There was a prize if that person could record paranormal activity. I immediately wanted to…
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.