Historical Fiction Archives

GUEST BLOG: STEPPING BACK IN TIME TO DO RESEARCH by Simon Fairfax

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 18 December 2020

Although his was my fifth novel, it was the first in a new series and a complete departure from my more contemporary series set in the late 20th Century. There were a...

GUEST BLOG: Some of The Background of My Novel, “Into the Unbounded Night” by Mitchell James Kaplan

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 14 December 2020

When you’re writing a novel you’re not thinking about what you’re trying to say. You’re trying to make sense of the world your characters inhabit. You’re learning to experience their world through...

BOOK BLAST: INTO THE UNBOUND NIGHT by Mitchell James Kaplan

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 8 December 2020

When her village in Albion is sacked by the Roman general Vespasian, young Aislin is left without home and family. Determined to exact revenge, she travels to Rome, a sprawling city of...

4 STAR REVIEW: SUMMER WARRIOR by Regan Walker

Historical Fiction Diane Peterson - 8 December 2020

Somerled’s parentage was noble, of the Kings of Dublin, the royal house of Argyll and the great Ard Ri, the High Kings of Ireland. But when the Norse invaded Argyll and the...

HOLIDAY MEMORIES: A Very Victorian Christmas … and What It Owes to Authors by Karen Odden

Holiday Memories Dayna Linton - 1 December 2020

The first author to kick off our "Holiday Memories" is the USA Today bestselling author, Karen Odden! I'm elated to have Karen as our first author. I first discovered Karen's books a few years...

5 STAR REVIEW: THE WALTZ OF DEVIL’S CREEK by Justine Carver

Historical Fiction Diane Peterson - 30 November 2020

Publication Date: October 20, 2020 Judith Campbell is dying, and she cannot take the painful truth about where her son came from to the grave with her. While on her deathbed in Atlanta,...

BOOK BLAST: THE WALTZ AT DEVIL’S CREEK by Justine Carver

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 30 November 2020

Publication Date: October 20, 2020 Judith Campbell is dying, and she cannot take the painful truth about where her son came from to the grave with her. While on her deathbed in Atlanta,...

5 STAR REVIEW: HIS CASTILIAN HAWK by Anna Belfrage

Historical Fiction JoAnne Weiss - 18 November 2020

The Castilian Saga Book 1 Release Date: September 28, 2020 For bastard-born Robert FitzStephan, being given Eleanor d’Outremer in marriage is an honour. For Eleanor, this forced wedding is anything but a fairy tale....

5 STAR REVIEW: WHERE BUTTERFLIES GO by Debra Doxer

Holiday Fiction Dayna Linton - 12 November 2020

Release Date: October 7, 2020 Meira Sokolow had the misfortune of being born to Jewish parents in Warsaw, Poland, in 1912. Before she took her first breath, her fate had been sealed. Residing in...

INTERVIEW: Victoria Sportelli On Her Book LADY MARGARET’S ESCAPE

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 9 November 2020

Today at Novels Alive, we welcome live-long Anglophile and author of Lady Margaret’s Escape, Victoria Sportelli, to our site. On your biography on your website, you mention that you “fell in love with...

BOOK BLAST: Censorettes by Elizabeth Bales Frank

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 5 November 2020

For a young woman of exceptional intelligence and courage, being sequestered from the dangers of WW2 on the idyllic island of Bermuda is maddening. She is determined to get into the fight—then...

GUEST BLOG: William A. Glass on AS GOOD AS CAN BE

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 30 October 2020

Readers of my novel, As Good As Can Be, usually conclude that it’s autobiographical. Some have asked me why I didn’t write a memoir. The answer is that I tried writing one,...