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The Fortunate Ones: Mary Tod talks to Catherine Hokin
WRITTEN BY MARY TOD Mischling. Mixed blood. Hitler’s evil at work, classifying everyone with even a drop of Jewish blood. Author Catherine ...Read Article
Oh, Canada!: Understanding a Nation Through Its Novels
WRITTEN BY LEE ANN ECKHARDT SMITH My vast and rugged country is not known for having a particularly dramatic backstory. When compared to ...Read Article
History & Film | Little Women: The Amy March Rorschach Test
WRITTEN BY BETHANY LATHAM The first volume of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women was published in 1868 to great success; film adaptations have ...Read Article
Let the Battles Begin: Alan Fisk Talks to Robert Fabbri About His New Series
WRITTEN BY ALAN FISK Known for his nine-book Vespasian series, Robert Fabbri has moved back three centuries in his latest historical novel, Alexander’...Read Article
A More Sophisticated Horror: Alma Katsu’s The Deep
WRITTEN BY BETHANY LATHAM Alma Katsu has something she’d like to say to readers who love historical fiction but think they aren’...Read Article
An Unlikely Partnership: Ghost of the Bamboo Road (a Hiro Hattori Novel) by Susan Spann
Susan Spann has recently published Ghost of the Bamboo Road, (Simon & Schuster 2019), the seventh novel in her Hiro Hattori series, set in 16...Read Article
Lies In White Dresses by Sofia Grant – an inspiring tale about female friendship in the Divorce Capital
In her new novel Lies in White Dresses (William Morrow, September, 2019), Sofia Grant chronicles the story of three women who visit a “divorce ...Read Article
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott Reveals the Story Behind Doctor Zhivago
One of the most highly anticipated historical novels to hit shelves this fall was Lara Prescott’s The Secrets We Kept (Hutchinson, September 2019). ...Read Article
Historical Trades: Saddlery, Logging, Coopering, Blacksmithing
If the characters in your historical novel are involved in the ancient trades of saddlery, logging, coopering or blacksmithing, these book and website ...Read Article
Six Historical Novelists Come Together to “Search for the Women” in Ribbons of Scarlet
I think I can safely speak for many historical novelists when I say that writing a historical novel isn’t easy. Historical novelists ...Read Article