Contests for historical fiction writers

Contests for historical fiction writers

Last updated Sep 5, 2024 | Blog

If you’ve completed a work of historical fiction or are nearing that revision finish line, you might be thinking about ways to get your story out into the world. One of the best ways to get some attention (and some cool cash) is by placing in writing contests. Short...
Returning to a writing project

Returning to a writing project

Last updated Sep 5, 2024 | Blog

Real life gets in the way. If, like most of us, you have a “normal” job in addition to your writing, or you have a family, kids, hobbies, or any other assorted drama that comes with being a human being at some stage your writing schedule has taken a slight knockback....
Out of time: how to avoid anachronisms in historical fiction

Out of time: how to avoid anachronisms in historical fiction

Last updated Sep 5, 2024 | Blog

Historical fiction is a conjuring trick, an interpretation of bygone times which doesn’t pretend or promise to present the absolute truth. Instead, writers of historical fiction reinvent the past, often venturing further than the known facts. They invoke a past...
Making research pay

Making research pay

Last updated Sep 5, 2024 | Blog

Many of us find that research is the best part of writing. We spend years hunting down every conceivable detail. Knowing how New York might have smelt on 4th July 1776, the taste of a roasted dormouse in Pompeii’s heyday, whether Cardinal Langton, author of the Magna...
Bringing historical festivities back to life

Bringing historical festivities back to life

Last updated Sep 5, 2024 | Blog

Celebrations, feasts and traditions have always been part of what makes us human. They bound our ancestors to their ancestors and can do the same for characters in historical fiction. Some feasts are moveable; all can be moving, both to characters and to readers. Some...