Not in my wildest dreams did I imagine receiving almost 800 responses to a survey I launched seventeen days ago. One hundred maybe or, if luck intervened, perhaps two hundred
Last week I mentioned Jerome de Groot’s book, The Historical Novel. The book’s chapter headings are indicative of the scrutiny de Groot offers his readers in the realm of historical
I’m currently writing a story with two timelines, one for Martin Devlin living through WWI and the second for his granddaughter, Grace Hansen, in the early 1990s. The storyline emerged
Because I write historical fiction, a blogger friend recommended Jerome de Groot’s book, The Historical Novel. Though it’s been on my desk for a while, this week I finally found
This picture is in my grandfather’s army scrapbook. Since I know he was with the army of occupation and he has this picture, I imagine he was there. Must have
This post first appeared in One Writer’s Voice on June 8, 2010. Many of us know (or have known) someone who fought in one of the world wars – a
This post first appeared in One Writer’s Voice on June 29, 2010. Still as applicable now as it was then. MKT The first historical fiction I remember reading was one
In planning this blog, I’ve considered a range of potential topics. As I said in my first post, I want to concentrate on the writing of historical fiction so I’ve
A few days ago over at One Writer’s Voice I wrote about blogging and strategy and concluded with a commitment to reset my own strategy for blogging and writing. Not
The historical fiction author behind A Writer of History...
