Why on earth would he be in a log cabin?” Writing historical fiction is hard, and, sometimes, librarians are bad for morale. By the 2019 conference, I’d been writing for three years ...

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In contemporary publishing, novels fixated on the past rather than the present have garnered the most attention and prestige.

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Pacing is crucial in dialogue. Short, punchy exchanges can create a sense of urgency or conflict, while longer monologues can slow things down for moments of reflection or exposition. Varying the ...

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Trust” by Hernan Diaz uses a unique storytelling technique of a story within a story. If you enjoy historical fiction, check ...

Ellis Peters’ A Morbid Taste for Bones introduced the historical detective ... making it a key entry in noir detective fiction. The intense modern crime writing in this novel brings back to ...

I was better at writing for the movies than as a fiction writer ... so you immediately think they’d be a good script, but the rules for one are very different from the other, and it doesn ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to South Korean author Han Kang, a 1998 participant in the University of ...