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When Silence Says More than Words: Glorious Boy by Aimee Liu
Aimee Liu describes her novel, Glorious Boy (Red Hen Press, May 2020), as being a “story of [an] unusual family, yanked apart by [the ...Read Article
Making Wine and Beer? Resources for Historical Novelists
Wine and beer were important beverages for our ancestors, and odds are you may have to know something about how they were made ...Read Article
New books by HNS members, May 2020
Congrats to the following authors on their new releases! If you’ve written a historical novel or nonfiction work published (or to be ...Read Article
Ask the Agent: Isobel Dixon and Graeme Macrae Burnet
WRITTEN BY RICHARD LEE Isobel Dixon is MD and Head of Books at Blake Friedmann Literary Agency in London and President of the (...Read Article
Not Just for Kids: The Graphic Novel and Historical Fiction
WRITTEN BY HUGO FREY It was back in the later 1980s that the literary world first got excited about the graphic novel. All ...Read Article
Mercies of the Past: Power and Punishment on the Norwegian Island of Vardø
WRITTEN BY KATHERINE STANSFIELD Kiran Millwood Hargrave is an award-winning poet, playwright, and novelist. The Mercies is her first novel for adults. Her ...Read Article
New Voices: Louise Fein, Natalie Jenner, Michael L. Huie, and Rita Woods
WRITTEN BY MYFANWY COOK Memories, tragedy and hope are all interlaced in the past worlds created by debut novelists Louise Fein, Natalie Jenner, ...Read Article
Taking Up a Challenge: Wolf by Herbert J. Stern and Alan A. Winter
WRITTEN BY MYFANWY COOK In writing their novel Wolf (Skyhorse, 2020), Herbert J. Stern and Alan A. Winter were faced with two major hurdles. ...Read Article
Evacuation: Elisabeth Gifford on The Lost Lights of St Kilda
WRITTEN BY SALLY ZIGMOND When I opened the first page of Secrets of the Sea House back in 2014, I knew I’d found ...Read Article
A Mirror to the World: Historical Fiction for Children & Young Adults
WRITTEN BY LINDA SEVER Children’s fiction has a huge responsibility and an equally big opportunity to produce inclusive books which accurately reflect ...Read Article