Expanding research horizons: Hunting Vikings!
Story finding-time … off to new (nothern) shores! It’s a given that historical fiction writers have to do their research. The writer has to be so much “into” her era…
Historical fiction: little lives matter most
The big in the small: Why I avoid the epic As a writer of historical fiction I never wanted to write the big and epic. AsĀ my plots are character-driven…
Tony Riches: Why You Should Consider Writing a Trilogy
Listen to one of my fave histfic-writing colleagues, and very much admired pro: welcome, Tony Riches! For most writers, completing one book would seem more than enough of an achievement,…
Wine, music, and hullabaloo … Reading “Tilda & Leo” in Aachen
Or: What’s the horse doing there? I wondered where that horse would go in the old town of Aachen. When driving down for my reading I followed that horse box…
Historical fiction doesn’t get better than “Hild”: my review
The time has come that I stand up and cheer for an author’s achievement. What. A. Read. “Hild”. Is. I spent a much too long time reading Nicola Griffith’s “Hild”…
Story first — kill your darlings!?
The thin line between accuracy and boredom To be honest with you, I never understood the often-cited dictum of “kill your darlings” in writing. Every writer has them, just like…
Hey, writer, that’s not realistic …
Or: Artistic freedom in historical fiction Following my post about which internal obstacles sometimes restrain me (or why I shy away where I shouldn’t) I also encounter instances where I’m…
Viking Romance “Yule Flight” published!
I’m excited to announce that as of today you can download and read my FREE Historical Romance novella “Yule Flight” from Smashwords! The Viking warrior Markus has recently become a…
Pigeonholing — Or the question of genre
This post is to prepare and pave the way for a series of oncoming blogs about my preferred genre(s) of writing. So first, I’ll dwell on the use of “genre”…