The Story of a Novel
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October 6, 2020
Dear Friends .. things may look a little different for a while. Please bear with me as I adapt to the new WordPress block editor and switch to a new
Recently, the New York Times featured Madeline McIntosh, CEO of Penguin Random House. Wondering what such an influential member of the publishing industry had to say, I read the article
Griffin Brady, author of The Heart of a Hussar, talks about the inspiration for this novel and its sequel, The Hussar’s Promise, and shares some of her research journey. Griffin
When you write a novel where one of the main characters is raped, you need to dig very, very deep to understand what that means in terms of the physical,
I met Patricia O’Reilly at an Historical Novel Society conference in 2014. As travelling companions on the writing journey, we kept in touch with occasional emails and Facebook comments. Today,
Maggie Humm is an international Virginia Woolf scholar and Emeritus Professor at the University of East London. Her novel Talland House is a work of historical fiction that interweaves people,
I often write the broad strokes of a story first with the basics of setting, the primary actions that occur and the dialogue that moves the story along while revealing
Sometimes I come across a unique bit of history while researching for one of my novels. As I’ve mentioned before, Paris in Ruins, the novel I plan to self-publish relatively
Having looked at setting and character, I thought it would be useful to consider world building as it relates to historical fiction. If you’ve read or watched Tolkien’s The Lord
Last week, I wrote about Amazon’s best sellers list for women’s historical fiction. Let’s take a look at other fiction categories. MYSTERY, THRILLER & SUSPENSE FICTION – 8 out of
The historical fiction author behind A Writer of History...
