Your historical fiction depends upon your ability to use historical detail. This is a different world for your reader. You have to supply the images and they have to be the right ones for this world. What is the street Read more…
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All right, maybe not exactly. But I write about them the same way. I got a funny look from someone the other day when I said that, so I’m going to explain the similarities. First — non-sex related unless you Read more…
We live in a different age than most of our characters. Judging or condemning someone because of their gender, their sexual orientation, their religion, or their color is wrong in our time. Our characters lived in a different time. Don’t Read more…
I’m going to do a short series on my own rules for writing historical fiction. Now these are my rules. I obviously can’t and won’t try to force them on anyone else. In at least one case, I wish I Read more…
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CHAPTER THREE Caitrina de Berkely snapped off her thread and examined the seam she had finished sewing. There was no doubt. The seam was crooked. She frowned in disgust at the gray underskirt and glanced across the sunlit bower at Read more…
If you have a book for sale on Amazon or other vendor sites, you know that getting it up there is merely the first hurdle. Once your book is listed how do people find it? Even if it’s the greatest Read more…
Jennifer Hudock, author of Goblin Market, is going to guest post about one of the most dreaded necessities of being an indie author. Writing the Novel Description. Jenny did a great description for her own novel so I think she Read more…
To be honest, I doubt that it’s anything personal. I doubt that Amazon has ever even noticed me, but, frankly, that’s no comfort. To make a long story long, a week ago I uploaded my novel, Freedom’s Sword, to KDP Read more…