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New Voices: Hazel Gaynor, Natalie Meg Evans, Kristen Harnisch & Judith Starkston
Hazel Gaynor, Natalie Meg Evans, Kristen Harnisch and Judith Starkston plant the seeds for future success with their debut novels. When we are ...Read Article
Reckless – the Racehorse who Became a Marine Corps Hero
Tom Clavin’s latest book, Reckless – The Racehorse who Became a Marine Corps Hero, details the life of a sorrel mare that played ...Read Article
Art in Historical Fiction Interview Series featuring Alicia Foster
Welcome to week nine of our series, our final post. It’s my pleasure to introduce Alicia Foster, author of Warpaint. In 1942, during ...Read Article
Would Barbara Cartland approve? Dukes, maidens, and fallen women in three new historical romances
My education in historical romance began early, plundering the box of Barbara Cartlands my grandmother kept under her bed. In Cartland’s novels, ...Read Article
Art in Historical Fiction Interview Series featuring Cathy Marie Buchanan
Welcome to week eight of our series. It’s my pleasure to introduce Cathy Marie Buchanan, author of bestseller The Painted Girls. Set ...Read Article
The Heart and Stomach of a King: Queen Elizabeth’s influence on female characters in historical fiction
Elizabeth I is one of the most iconic women in English history. Partly this is because she survived to a ripe old age, ...Read Article
Art in Historical Fiction Interview Series featuring Stephanie Cowell
Welcome to week seven of our series. It’s my pleasure to introduce Stephanie Cowell, author of Claude & Camille. Cowell has brilliantly ...Read Article
The Great War from a Country House
In a recent Canadian newspaper article, the television series Downton Abbey was cited as one of the major inspirations for North American aspirations ...Read Article
Art in Historical Fiction Interview Series featuring Maryanne O’Hara
Welcome to week six of our series. It’s my pleasure to introduce Maryanne O’Hara, author of Cascade. When Desdemona Hart Spaulding, ...Read Article
Researching the Historical Novel – Part Three
WEBSITES USEFUL TO HISTORICAL NOVELISTS Here are two websites with collections of interest to historical researchers, one of which is strong on anthropology ...Read Article