The facts are a constant thorn in the side of every author of historical fiction. HF readers hate it if you get your facts wrong so you sweat blood on research. God help you if you make a mistake. I once had a reader take me to task over a… Read More »WHY HISTORY IS A PAIN IN THE BUTT by Colin Falconer
I recently wrote a long post for my own blog on why I love writing short stories, and in the process I discovered that six other of the members of the Historical Fiction Authors Cooperative (HFAC) have written short historical fiction as well (novellas or short stories). I am not… Read More »Historical Fiction Shorts – Glimpses into the Past by M. Louisa Locke
For the chronicler, the charm of history lies in the fact that—if only he waits a sufficient time before setting down his tale—he can always trace the fall of an empire to the loss of a horseshoe nail. Hermann B. Deutsch, The Incredible Yanqui. It’s difficult to subscribe to any… Read More »Lee Christmas, Soldier of Fortune by David Gaughran
Stories come from all sorts of places. Surprisingly, the idea for Timber Rose came from two 1908 books on sex and self, What a Young Wife Ought to Know and What a Young Husband Ought to Know. The first was given to a friend as a gag gift when she… Read More »Origins of Timber Rose by J. L. Oakley
The dramatic stories of dark deeds, love and power surrounding the foundation of Rome are hard to resist. What particularly intrigues me is that significant political change against oppressive rulers often eventuated as the response to the unjust death of a woman. One such woman was Virginia but the most… Read More »Dying for Rome: Tarpeia by Elisabeth Storrs