Author Roland Colton on writing historical fiction
Author Roland Colton stops by today to talk about historical fiction. Roland is a lawyer, a pianist, an author and, at one time, a terrific baseball player. He has the
July 14, 2016
Author Roland Colton stops by today to talk about historical fiction. Roland is a lawyer, a pianist, an author and, at one time, a terrific baseball player. He has the
I met Patricia Parsons, author of several non-fiction and fiction works, at my daughter and son-in-law’s wedding. In that strange process of serendipity, Patricia has now moved from Halifax to Toronto and
John Danielski has two historical novels to his credit: Active’s Measure and The King’s Scarlet, both set in Napoleonic times. He has graciously offered to talk about Beginnings – how
The grit, tragedy and bold strategy of the American Civil War play out in Jim Stempel’s Windmill Point. Am I glad I read it? You bet. Stempel’s writing is vivid and meticulous. He
Mark Richard Beaulieu is a frequent visitor to A Writer of History. When I posted the article Time Travel – The Work of Historical Fiction, he volunteered to provide a perspective
As some of you are aware, TIME AND REGRET, my next novel, was acquired by Lake Union Publishing last January. The process from acquisition to publication has been speedy and
In a previous life, I worked for IBM. More than ten years, in fact, at that icon of the technology world. One of the skills I learned was sales and one
Read authors of the time period. Almost every article on writing historical fiction, offers this piece of advice. Emile Zola, one of the great French writers of the nineteenth century, is praised
It was a no-brainer to set my next novel in Paris, a city so rich with culture, history, beauty, tradition, and flare. With a rough outline of the plot already written, I
Tuesday’s post itemized the topics historical fiction authors should research when writing a novel. Today’s post offers a list of potential sources to explore in order to do so. (Again based
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