A Year of Reading 2016
40 books in 2016 – several for research purposes, a number for reviews or articles, and a good number for pleasure – have to have some of those! Some were superb, others I
December 13, 2016
40 books in 2016 – several for research purposes, a number for reviews or articles, and a good number for pleasure – have to have some of those! Some were superb, others I
S.M. (Stuart) Harris is the author of The Northeast Quarter. He began writing professionally for the theater in 1991 when he was invited by the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York to
Michael Bolan is an Irishman based in Prague who writes historical fiction with a strong fantasy element. He’s the author of The Devil’s Bible Series is an adventure set in
Yesterday, I wrote the penultimate – I don’t think I’ve ever had occasion to use that word before – chapter for my WIP. And today I will write the last
If I were cleverer or a more experienced writer, I would have written my novels as a series. Planned them out in such a way that novel one would have
Some time ago, I began but did not finish Maria Duenas‘s debut novel The Time In Between a sweeping novel set in WWII Morocco. It still sits accusingly on my
Lucille Turner’s first novel, Gioconda, was inspired by the life of Leonardo Da Vinci. Her second, The Sultan, The Vampyr and the Soothsayer, is set in Constantinople, the subject of
Please welcome Elaine Cougler author of The Loyalist Trilogy who has just launched the The Loyalist Legacy, novel three of the trilogy. After exchanging Facebook comments for many months, Elaine and
Derek Birks and I met in 2014 at the Historical Novel Society conference in London where we talked about our respective time periods and the passion we share for writing
I’m delighted to welcome Derek (D.K.) Wilson to the blog. Armed with a degree in History and Theology, Derek has been writing historical fiction and non-fiction since the mid 1970s and
The historical fiction author behind A Writer of History...
