Strong Romance Heroines in Historicals: Has Their Time (Finally) Arrived?, by...
Happy Tuesday, RU Crew! We have a special treat in store for you today. Author Hope Tarr returns to RU to discuss strong heroines in historical settings–has their time finally arrived? Besides a great...
View ArticleLate Regency Period Technology: Flintlock, Percussion Lock and Your Plot
Weapons expert Adam Firestone returns with another of his regular columns. If you haven’t seen Adam’s previous posts you may wonder what a weapons expert might be able to contribute to a blog aimed at...
View ArticleDeepening Motivation and Plot in Historical Fiction with Marci Jefferson
Welcome debut author Marci Jefferson! She’s going to give us a few hints about plotting and deepening motivation in a historical – read on! As an avid reader, I enjoy almost any historical novel. And...
View ArticleShaken, Not Stirred: The British Military Martini, or a Saga of Victorian...
The Victorian Era was a marvel unto the ages. For more than sixty years, a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence reigned in Britain – and much of the...
View ArticleWriting Historical Dialogue
If you're writing historical fiction, how do you convey a sense of period to your reader? “The past is a foreign country,” LP Hartley wrote in The Go-Between. “They do things differently there.” They...
View ArticleDiana Gabaldon’s Outlander Hits the Small Screen
For the book that made it nearly impossible for librarians and book stores across the world to agree on a genre or classification, the transition from page to small screen is nothing short of...
View ArticleWriting the Inspirational Historical
The research required to write a believable historical in any period can be daunting. But writing them gave me a reason to acquire many beautiful and fascinating books. However, because I’ve invested...
View ArticleWriting WWII Historical Fiction
My interest in WW2 began back in college with a late night viewing of 1942’s Mrs. Miniver. There are no battle scenes, though we do see Walter Pidgeon head off in his boat to save soldiers from the...
View ArticleResearcher vs. Storytelling in Historical Fiction
Research is an essential part of writing. Fiction or non-fiction, contemporary or historical, at some stage in the process every writer needs to refer to books and/or the internet to find out something...
View ArticleRegency Travelers and Paterson’s Roads
One thing I’ve noticed in working with authors of historical romance is that we tend not to have an instinctive grasp of pre-mechanized transportation. The food, clothing, language that we use today...
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