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When I began to write my historical novel  Brookhaven , my jumping off point was a family story. My father often told me about my great-gran...

The writing of my historical novel  Brookhaven  took about 150 years.  I must have seen something like this before, but I can’t recall a spe...

When I was writing my historical novel  Brookhaven , I initially relied upon two main sources – the records of births and deaths in the old ...

My historical novel  Brookhaven  has no illustrations. I spent an estimated third of my research time hunting for them.  The novel is set in...

A reader of Brookhaven sent n email, asking if I modeled the McClure Lumber Company in the novel on the Pearl River Lumber Company. A great-...

It was a year ago that the manuscript for my historical novel was attached to an email and sent to the publisher who requested it. I felt an...

I was born and grew up in New Orleans, a city saturated with French, Spanish, American, and Black American history and culture. Louisiana la...

In writing  Brookhaven , one of the sources I relied upon for research, book referrals, and general information about the Civil War was a we...

Writing one historical novel does not make one an expert in the genre. I have written exactly one historical novel, Brookhaven, a romance s...

In the early 1980s, the Young family Bible was passed down to me from my father. We had looked at it together much earlier, especially the f...

It’s been two weeks since I read a book about the Civil War, and it feels strange. My draft novel is done, at least for now. It’s not so muc...

My story connected to the Civil War has passed the 70,000-word mark, and the ending is in sight. I’m not sure when it was that I realized I ...

I learned a very hard lesson while writing a historical novel. I learned how hard it can be, and it’s hard for both the research you do and ...

For more than a year, I’ve been researching / writing/ researching / writing a historical novel set during the American Civil War. It’s loos...

The idea has been in my head for years – a story about my great-grandfather. But I knew only a few facts about him, passed down by my father...

The four, soon to be five, novels in the  Dancing Priest  series are set in the near future, at least far enough away from the actual p...

I’m looking at a web site called  English Historical Fiction Authors . Its audience is authors who write period historical novels. The ...