What’s more important: Beginning or end?
In a recent Globe and Mail article, Paula Hawkins (of The Girl on the Train fame) is interviewed on the occasion of her new novel Into the Water. I was intrigued
May 16, 2017
In a recent Globe and Mail article, Paula Hawkins (of The Girl on the Train fame) is interviewed on the occasion of her new novel Into the Water. I was intrigued
Beyond writing historical fiction, Jennifer Robson and I share Toronto as our home town and I was delighted to meet her in person two months ago. Goodnight From London, Jennifer’s latest
A departure from historical fiction to consider life in general. One of my favourite newspapers is the New York Times. We get the Sunday NYT in Toronto as well as
The Confessions of Young Nero by Margaret George releases today in the US and on March 9th in the UK. What does it take to write such a novel? How
“Because the purpose of business is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two-and only two-basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are
On Tuesday, I mentioned two topics I plan to explore in 2017: successful historical fiction and social reading. As a starting point, I thought it might be useful to see
Yesterday, I wrote the penultimate – I don’t think I’ve ever had occasion to use that word before – chapter for my WIP. And today I will write the last
If I were cleverer or a more experienced writer, I would have written my novels as a series. Planned them out in such a way that novel one would have
Last January Time and Regret was taken on by Lake Union Publishing – a division of Amazon. My experience with the organization has been highly professional, responsive, and very streamlined. In concert
Friend, fellow author and writing coach Barbara Kyle has just released a book called Page Turner: Your Guide to Writing a Novel that Publishers Want and Readers Buy. I can
The historical fiction author behind A Writer of History...
