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...
How to write convincing male characters in historical fiction

How to write convincing male characters in historical fiction

Last updated Sep 5, 2024 | Blog

Even taking into account titans like Bernard Cornwell, the vast majority of historical fiction authors are women. As are their readers. Now, you should be incredibly suspicious of anyone who claims to be an expert in masculinity. Chances are, they are trying to sell...
Giving your book a second soul: using other languages effectively

Giving your book a second soul: using other languages effectively

Last updated Sep 5, 2024 | Blog

The idea that another language gives us a second soul comes from Charlemagne. As a polyglot and ruler of a multilingual territory, he understood what other languages meant to individuals and to societies. Tolstoy understood it too. In War and Peace, his aristocrats...
Marketing hacks for historical fiction writers

Marketing hacks for historical fiction writers

Last updated Sep 5, 2024 | Blog

For many writers, marketing a book is the hardest part of the publishing process. It requires us to go out into the world and smile at people and make them like us — all the reasons we chose to become writers in the first place (not). And after a while, all the book...