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  • Mixing real people with imaginary characters in Historical novels

    When it comes to picking your characters for a historical novel you have almost as many possibilitie...

  • Writing my novel set in 16th Century Venice

    After five novels with twin plots (present and historical), I’m currently working on my very first...

  • My Favourite Character

    Everyone has a favourite character from a book they have read. Well, I have a favourite character I ...

  • Setting my novels in Renaissance Italy

    Almost all of my historical mystery novels are set in Renaissance Italy....

  • Creating Scene-By-Scene outlines for Historical Novels

    My brother once told me that he sometimes imagines me writing, and he sees me in a smoking jacket an...

  • The Hero’s Journey and Historical Novels

    The idea of The Hero's Journey in Historical Novels is that all stories follow a pattern in which a ...

  • Writing the first chapter of a Historical Novel

    Writing the first chapter of a Historical Novel. Often the first chapter in any genre is the hardest...

  • Future Historical Novels

    I sometimes wonder what historical novels of the future will be like. What would a writer a hundred ...

  • My favourite historical novel

    Answering the question ‘What is your favourite historical novel?’ is surprisingly difficult. The...

  • Fact and Fiction in Historical Novels

    A major question any writer addresses before they start to write any form of historical fiction is: ...

  • Writing characters for historical novels

    I’m often asked how writing differs for me when I’m working on a novel set in the past or one in...

  • Researching To Write Historical Novels

    In researching to write historical novels, the internet is an indispensable tool as a first port of ...

  • Writing profiles for your Historical Novel characters

    For almost all historical fiction there are two types of character populating the novel or short sto...

  • MEETING THE NEW CAST

    There is a delicious early stage in the process of writing a novel in which I meet the cast. By that...

  • WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? (WDIAM)

    So, I’m now totally digitised. My wife, Lisa (known in our household as The Web Goddess) is fully ...

  • THE COMING WAR

    In the lead up to the two great wars of the 20th century, anyone with any awareness of the world aro...

  • LOST IN TRANSLATION

    One of the great thrills of being a writer is receiving finished copies of your latest book. The buz...

  • NOT SO SECRET HISTORY

    Like many people, I’ve been thinking back to the events of September 11, 2001, and I began to wond...

  • THE LONELINESS OF A LONG DISTANCE WRITER

    My brother once told me that he sometimes imagines me working on a book and pictures me putting on a...

  • SACRED COWS

    It’s not only Hindus who have sacred cows – we all do. But, as I get older (and I hope, wise...

  • SHORT STORY: THE ADVERTISEMENT

    He first met Hannah through an advertisement in the local newspaper. He had no income so he used the...

  • SHORT STORY: FLORA AND JACK

    When they were first married they would go on long picnics in Epping Forest. That was before Nigel a...

  • SHORT STORY: A WORLD LIT ONLY BY FIRE

    I left the camp to hunt as the dawn broke across the eastern sky. The snow was ankle-deep, cold righ...

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