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Conference Interview: Diana Gabaldon
Rebekah Simmers has been interviewing writers who will be presenting at the HNS UK 2024 conference. RS: We are so thrilled that you will be joining us for the HNS 2024 UK Conference! What are you looking forward to about the conference? DG: I’ve never been to this conference, so looking forward to meeting new…
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Writing Across Worlds
By Alix Christie When I got the call that summer day in 2015 inviting me to visit McDonald Ranch, I let out a whoop at the wheel of my rental car. I was on the Flathead Indian Reservation in northwestern Montana doing preliminary research for what would become my second historical novel, The Shining Mountains. It’s the 19th-century story…
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Conference Interview: Elizabeth Fremantle
Rebekah Simmers has been interviewing writers who will be presenting at the HNS UK 2024 conference. RS: We are thrilled that you will be joining us for the HNS 2024 UK conference. What are you looking forward to about the conference? Can you share a teaser for your presentation? EF: I’ll let you in on…
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How Did People Speak in the Good Ol’ Days?
by John Kachuba Writers of historical fiction know that it’s not only important to get the history right, it’s equally important to create a sense of that history for the reader. Historically accurate settings and details of clothing, architecture, foods, technology, etc. go a long way toward helping the reader fully immerse in the story. But…
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HNS 2024 First Chapters Competition Category Winners Announced Today
The Historical Novel Society First Chapters Competition is a major new writing competition for excellence in historical fiction for the first three chapters of an unpublished novel. First prize is £1,000. Nine Category Winner Awards for £500 each. In its first year, the competition received over 400 high-calibre entries. The nine Category Winners are announced…
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Making the Genre Pivot
by Donna Jones Alward Do we all remember 2020? Of course, we do. It was the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the beginning of life as we knew it changing. My life was no different. My husband was facing a potential layoff; in the meantime, lockdowns meant he started working from home. In addition to…
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I Feel a Bit Like History Myself…
By Helen Hollick Way, way back in time (well, circa 1997), I heard about a new group which was to be called The Historical Novel Society. I was, then, a rookie author of historical fiction, having been accepted by William Heinemann (Random House UK) in April 1993, one week after my 40th birthday. I can’t remember…
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Romanticising Scotland: The Impact of Historical Fiction by VEH Masters
Culross is a very pretty village set on the opposite of the Firth of Forth to Edinburgh and one of the locations used to film the Outlander series. Sitting in a café there I got chatting to a lovely American who was on an Outlander tour. ‘We did Edinburgh yesterday,’ she said, ‘and we’re doing the Highlands today.’ ‘Wow…
The Historical Novel Society UK 2024 conference
International conference for readers, writers and publishers of historical fiction
The Historical Novel Society UK 2024 conference 