Gill Paul, herself a bestselling author, looks at how top-selling books mirrored the times they were published in. They weren’t only contemporary, either; historical fiction and fantasy are high on the list, perhaps not surprisingly to those who know the genres. Gill’s latest novel, Scandalous Women, is about the authors of two of these bestsellers. […]
Review: Later Stuart Queens, 1660–1735
Linda Porter reviews a new and timely book about the later Stuart queens. This is an important and interesting collection of essays, she says — but how many will be able to afford to read it? Historia readers may be taken aback by a review of a book with the eye-watering price of more than […]
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The New ‘Hybrid’ Author
Award-winning author C.C. Humphreys on his move from traditionally published to hybrid author. ‘Hybrid’, my Concise Oxford informs me, is ‘the offspring of two plants or animals of different species.’ Like a Tigon… or is it a Liger? I owned a Honda Accord a few years back. Part electric, part petrol. Also hybrid. I am […]
The Return of the Novella
Jon Watt of indie publisher, Type & Tell, hails the return of the novella and looks at the possible benefits for authors. The novella has had a tough few decades. For much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries it was an admired format, with Tolstoy, Fitzgerald, Kipling, Conrad and Woolf all embracing short form. But […]
A Step to Publication
As HWA team up with the Dorothy Dunnett Society to launch a brand new short story competition (Dorothy Dunnett pictured above), here’s Imogen Robertson on how competitions helped her get published. Have you heard that the Historical Writers’ Association are launching a new open short story competition for Historical Fiction with the Dorothy Dunnett Society this […]