Historical Fiction

Researching The Living and the Lost

by Ellen Feldman

WCAG Heading It’s a truism that writers are always squirreling away random observations, eavesdropped…
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Oh, Those “Girton Girls!”

Barbara Bodichon

by Nancy Springer

WCAG Heading In 19th century England, while sons of the well-to-do were sent…
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Dominus: New Excerpt

Dominus one

by Steven Saylor

Spanning 160 years and seven generations, teeming with some of ancient Rome’s most vivid figures, Steven…
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Elizabeth Bentley: The True Story That Inspired a Novel

Elizabeth

by Karin Tanabe

WCAG Heading When I decided that I wanted to write about a woman…
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A Woman of Intelligence: Featured Excerpt

by Karin Tanabe

WCAG Heading Karin Tanabe’s A Woman of Intelligence is an exhilarating novel of post-war New York…
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USS Franklin: Attack, Survival, and Triumph

by P. T. Deutermann

WCAG Heading My novel, Trial by Fire, is based on the true…
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Ancient Rome’s Short-Lived Teen Emperor: Practical Joker, Drag Queen, Transgender?

by Steven Saylor

WCAG Heading Psssst! Have you heard about Elagabalus? They say he invented the world’s…
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The Sound of America in 1914

by Mariah Fredericks

WCAG Heading In 1914, the hot ticket on Broadway was On Trial, a play…
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The History Behind the Mystery: Safecracking 101

by Ashley Weaver

WCAG Heading One of my favorite parts of writing historical fiction is the new…
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A Tour of the Belasco Theatre

by Mariah Fredericks

WCAG Heading It’s always wonderful when a novel becomes a cheap excuse to…
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