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
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
Keira Morgan discovered the Renaissance when her grandmother gave her a book about England’s queens when she was five. At university, she studied Renaissance and Reformation history to the doctoral
My time is fragmented into small slices these days – see recent post Writing While Caregiving – and it might not surprise you to know that small bits of time
I attended Surrey International Writers’ Conference this year – a first for me and the first virtual conference for them. They did a superb job of offering interesting and inspiring
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,
So what exactly is setting as it relates to historical fiction? I’ll attempt to answer that, but I know that my answer will be incomplete. In addition, many of the
Tuesday’s post highlighted 8 tips based on guest posts during the past twelve months. Today, I offer six more. Blythe Gifford author of The Witch Finder starts every one of
During 2019, A Writer of History had the good fortune of securing many guest authors to discuss a range of topics related to historical fiction. Below are 8 tips that
The historical fiction author behind A Writer of History...
