Today I am pleased to post an interview with Christy English. At the moment, I am half way through Christy’s first novel, The Queen’s Pawn, enjoying her interpretation of Eleanor of
I am delighted to welcome Jenny Barden to A Writer of History. Jenny’s debut novel Mistress of the Sea has received enthusiastic endorsement from readers and writers of historical fiction.
Before she became the 19th century’s greatest heroine, before he had written a word of Madame Bovary, Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert traveled down the Nile at the same time.
Several weeks ago, Geri from B.R.A.G. Medallion contacted me. This organization’s mission is “to recognize quality on the part of authors who self-publish both print and digital books” and to
Author Jeri Westerson has been writing historical fiction for a while. She loves to write medieval mysteries with an “enigmatic, flawed, sexy, and very different protagonist” called Crispin Guest who
After six years of collecting bookmarks related to various bits of research for my writing, I have a lengthy list of WWI, WWII and Depression era URLs. A few are
Most days I feel like a split personality – part of me living in battlefields surrounded by the sights and sounds of war or enduring the daily hardships and uncertainties
After conducting the historical fiction survey and discovering a bunch of favourite authors, I decided that I should read as many of them as possible – not all their work
As James Patterson said in a quote I used several days ago: “Brands are nothing more than trust.” I asked each of the top historical fiction authors I interviewed what
Jennifer Niven is an accomplished writer of both fiction and nonfiction. Her latest novel, Becoming Clementine, launches tomorrow, September 25. Jennifer graciously agreed to be interviewed for A Writer of
The historical fiction author behind A Writer of History...
