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Red Pencil: Dawn’s Early Light
Cindy Vallar analyzes the work behind published manuscripts. In this issue, she profiles Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris’s Dawn’s Early…
New Voices: Suzanne Burdon, Chris England, Allegra Jordan & Mark Wiederanders
Comedy, tragedy, love, risk and complex personalities fill the pages of debut novels by Suzanne Burdon, Chris England, Allegra Jordan…
City of Ladies by Sarah Kennedy Prompts Look at Women’s Roles in Tudor England
Besides being a wonderful work of historical fiction, City of Ladies by Sarah Kennedy is a poignant look into the…
GI Brides: Duncan Barrett and Nuala Calvi illuminate the phenomenon of Wartime Girls who crossed the Atlantic for Love
Nuala Calvi, half of the GI Brides writing team, discovered a few years ago that her grandmother had been married…
Sundance Rides Again?
Even though I’m not a particular fan of Westerns, I did enjoy the classic movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance…
Kickstarter: A Great Resource for Authors. Teralyn Rose Pilgrim talks about her experience
How Kickstarter Works Kickstarter.com is a website where people ask for money to fund a project and offer each backer…
What Price Success? For Pam Jenoff becoming an author has had to coexist with her dayjob
Pam Jenoff has the kind of career any writer might envy. She has written seven successful novels; the eighth will…
Researching the Historical Novel Part 4: Dress, lifestyles, weapons, and time-online and print resources
Dress, lifestyles, weapons, and time: Here are more free online resources that historical novelists may find useful in…
Mind the Gap – Conn Iggulden talks about how he came to write the Wars of the Roses series and the lengths he goes to for research
Wars of the Roses: Stormbird is the first of Conn Iggulden’s three novels focusing on that bloody period of English…
The Dangerous World of Rare Books
Murder, suspense, love, loss and William Shakespeare: The Bookman’s Tale by Charlie Lovett has all the ingredients of the perfect…
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