Historical Fiction Survey – who responded?
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
March 31, 2012
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
This post appeared earlier on One Writers Voice. Some time ago, I posted a piece written by a friend of mine, Michael Kirk, on how to research your connections to WWI. Mike
During WWI, official war diaries were a matter of standard practice, recording day by day the events that occupied millions of men. The following post originally occurred in One Writer’s
This is a tag/you’re it game, a Lucky Seven writing meme: Go to page 77 of your current MS Go to line 7 Copy down the next 7 line/sentences, and
Several years ago, I read Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri and was transported into the world of a family who emigrated from India to the United States. In a new series
A book I read about the craft of writing encourages authors to appeal to every sense – sight, sound, taste, smell, touch – when writing a scene or dialogue. As
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
While on leave in London, June 1918, my WWI soldier, Martin Devlin, visits the home of his sweetheart, Cynthia Gibson. For some reason – probably because I knew the town
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
AN OPEN REQUEST … After researching the reasons why people read historical fiction for a blog post, and finding almost nothing, I decided to create a survey to discover more
The historical fiction author behind A Writer of History...
