
Author Tony Riches on writing a six-book Elizabethan Series
Tony Riches is a full-time UK author of best-selling Tudor historical fiction. His latest novel is Bess: Tudor Gentlewoman which is the sixth novel in his Elizabethan series. I’ve read

Tony Riches is a full-time UK author of best-selling Tudor historical fiction. His latest novel is Bess: Tudor Gentlewoman which is the sixth novel in his Elizabethan series. I’ve read

A few days ago, I wrote about my writing journey from 2006 to 2017. Today’s post completes the look back from 2018 to 2025. One thing that became clear as

Just the other day I realized that I’ve began my writing journey almost 20 years ago in 2006 when the concept for what became Unravelled first took shape. That realization

Mother’s Day is a poignant reminder that my mother passed away two years ago. She was a wonderful woman – both mother and dearest friend – whose character and values

You might recall that I’ve written two novels for my grandsons – the first, The Magical Tree, was written in 2022 when the older boys were 6 and 8; the

Author David O. Stewart joins us today to talk about his writing journey. David writes both fiction and non-fiction – more about that in his interview. We met quite a

Alina Adams has contributed to A Writer of History in the past with a post on the ease of writing historical fiction and another on why historical fiction must keep

Author Kate Braithwaite and I were chatting via social media and emails – as people do these days – and discovered that we had both written historical fiction and contemporary

I was on a Zoom call with an author friend of mine who writes biographical historical fiction – the type of stories I love to read! During our conversation, the

I’ve been traveling for a week and the preparation for that travel preoccupied much of my time in the week beforehand which means that I am a little late with
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