Historical Fiction Archives

GUEST BLOG: Inspiration For Writing THE LAST KING by M.J. Porter

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 12 January 2021

The Last King is set in the AD 870s in Mercia, one of the ancient kingdoms of England. If you’ve watched or read Bernard Cornwell’s The Last Kingdom books then it’s just...

GUEST BLOG: Putting the Mystery into History: Writing Historical Sleuths by E.M. Powell

Historical Mystery Dayna Linton - 11 January 2021

Like so many readers out there, I love a good whodunit. I hugely enjoy trying to figure out page by page which suspects are the ones to watch. Who may be for...

GUEST BLOG: Do You Believe In Ghosts? by David Fitz-Gerald

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 23 December 2020

Do you believe in ghosts? If you do, you’re not alone. From a quick internet search, it appears that between one-third and one-half of us do. One website suggests that forty-five percent...

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 - 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...