What are the ingredients of favourite historical fiction? This post from 2012 may be worth revisiting … In his book Hit Lit: Cracking the Code of the Twentieth Century’s Biggest
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
Continuing to bring together popular posts on A Writer of History. These are from 2016. The Art of Esoterica or Historical Fiction Research Using Paris in Ruins as an example, this
Continuing to feature popular posts year by year – here’s a look at 2014. A number of these posts derive from an examination of the 2013 reader survey results. Favourite Historical
Last week, I listed popular posts from 2012 as a way of sharing past writing with new readers and of curating a list for future reference. Today, I’m featuring a
Something seems to be happening at A Writer of History. Let me explain. Attracting followers is a slow process. For the longest time, you think no one is interested –
Today I’ve assembled a group of readers’ perspectives on the power of fiction. In a future post, I’ll include comments from readers who are also authors. Please add your thoughts
Readers and writers – a symbiotic relationship. Ideas spark writers to create stories and build worlds and characters for readers’ consumption. Readers add imagination and thought to interpret those stories,
I’ve dug into responses from readers on the topic of why they are reading more or less than in the past. A little over 1000 people chose to comment on
This year’s survey report is now available. It’s taken me quite some time to compile the results because … as you know I spent the last five weeks recovering from
The historical fiction author behind A Writer of History...
