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Conference Interview – Lisa Highton
Rebekah Simmers has been interviewing writers who are presenting at the HNS 2024 UK Conference Lisa Highton, who joined Jenny Brown Associates as an Associate Agent in 2022 after a history in publishing, offers insight into writing, publishing, and the journey in between. Lisa is interviewing S. G. MacLean at the HNS 2024 UK Conference…
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Conference Interview – Helen Steadman
Rebekah Simmers has been interviewing writers who are presenting at the HNS 2024 UK Conference RS: We are thrilled that you will be joining us for the HNS 2024 UK Conference! Can you share a teaser for your presentation? HS: Alongside Christine Mackie, our session will focus on three audiobooks inspired by several seventeenth-century witch…
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Conference Interview: Chris Humphreys
Rebekah Simmers has been interviewing writers who are presenting at the HNS 2024 UK 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? Can you share a teaser for your presentation? CH: I’m thrilled to be back.…
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Conference Interview: Michèle Callard
Rebekah Simmers has been interviewing writers who are presenting at the HNS 2024 UK 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? Can you share a teaser for your presentation? MC: Talking shop! Teaser – For…
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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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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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The Historical Novelist Confronts Real-Life Characters by Patricia Bernstein
Patricia Bernstein on the pros and cons of depicting real-life characters in historical fiction. Contemporary critics have complained about novelists who depict characters of recent memory, even sometimes pretending to reproduce their thoughts without any proof that these people ever thought any such thing. In the novel Blonde, for instance, Joyce Carol Oates goes so far…
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Taking Liberties by Apple Gidley
Apple Gidley asks two pressing questions about historical fiction. Can a novelist write about any topic regardless of their own cultural background? Should historical novels use footnotes? I write, predominantly, historical fiction but I am not an historian. I do, though, believe that as historical novelists we owe our readers honesty in the facts as…
The Historical Novel Society UK 2024 conference 