Today’s guest post is from Yvonne Zipter, author of Infraction. Yvonne has written three poetry collections, two non-fiction books, and is the author behind the nationally syndicated column Inside Out
While living in Hong Kong, I discovered Qi Gong. My friend Tita and I signed up for a class at the Helena May Club and every Tuesday, we learned this
Write what you know. Isn’t that what everyone preaches? We authors are supposed to dig into our own experiences to discover the gems that will inform our stories. I scoffed
Not long ago, I talked about building a brand – an author brand. In concert with the work I’ve been doing on the M.K. Tod brand with Katie Birks Branding
With a dual timeline story sketched out, it was important to understand what Hong Kong looked like in 1912/1913, the time period for the historical timeline of The Admiral’s Wife.
J. Fremont‘s debut novel, Magician of Light, tells the story of René Lalique beginning with his adolescent years in Paris, his journey from student to leading glass manufacturer, and his
Some years ago, when I was interviewing quite a lot of reader-nominated ‘favourite historical fiction authors’, I asked those authors: Do you think of yourself as having a brand? Elizabeth
I’ve been going through old posts with the thought of organizing them better for those who visit A Writer of History and came across this one I wrote in 2012.
Lenora Good of Coffee Break Escapes was an early reader of Paris In Ruins. In our back-and-forth exchanges, I discovered that Lenora has written a novel and also writes poetry.
One of our special guests at the HNS North America 2021 conference was Libbie Hawker. Libbie is a prolific and excellent writer with many novels to her credit. A recent
The historical fiction author behind A Writer of History...
