by Diane Morris | May 23, 2023 | AI, Body-snatchers
My husband and I were recently discussing the claim that Artificial Intelligence (AI) would pretty much destroy mankind. We had a hard time getting our heads around that idea, but we could envision AI writing blogs and other documents. Since I’ve been writing...
by Diane Morris | Jun 2, 2022 | Body-snatchers, Life & Times, surgeons & surgery
The business of body-snatching thrived in Jane Austen’s England. It also flourished in Scotland (1), Ireland (2), on the continent (3), and in the United States (US) and Canada. The success of the body-snatcher or Resurrection man (as he was sometimes called)...
by Diane Morris | Mar 24, 2022 | Body-snatchers, Life & Times, Resurrection Men
A previous blog described some of the lessons I learned researching and writing about body-snatchers (1). In Jane Austen’s day (particularly the early 1800s), body-snatchers dug up the dead at night and delivered the fresh cadavers to the surgeons at...
by Diane Morris | Nov 14, 2021 | surgeons & surgery, Writing
My trilogy is finished. The series–titled Surgeon’s Duty–is set in Regency England (specifically 1816 and 1817) and follows a hospital surgeon and several body-snatchers (a.k.a. resurrection men). The body-snatchers dig up newly buried bodies and...
