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A 250+ Jane Austen Birthday Link List
Happy Birthday, Jane Austen! On the very happy occasion of the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth on December 16, 1775, PLW is pleased to...
Harriet and Dred Scott
The recent Paper Lantern Writer anthology, Echoes of Small Things, contains stories about minor events that may have changed history. Μy story,...
A Storm is Brewing for Richard the Lion Heart in this Historical Fiction Short Story
A storm is brewing in Châlus-Chabrol. King Richard the Lion-Hearted and his loyal men are days away from conquering the castle of the Viscount Aimar...
Snip, Snip, Snip!
Today is my thirtieth wedding anniversary, and what a marriage it’s been. Full of camaraderie, communication, and, of course, challenges. We might...
Finding My Historical Passions ~ by Guest Blogger Jackie Lapin
Happy Halloween and welcome to PLW's October Fifth Friday. Today's guest blogger is Jackie Lapin, the mastermind of The Historic Traveler, which...
The History Behind “A House of Salt”
In our newest anthology, Echoes of Small Things, the Paper Lantern Writers shoes to look at how small acts can ripples through echoes and change the...
What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor? Do any of your Historical Fiction characters have a substance abuse problem?
What do You do with a Drunken Sailor, early in the morning? This may be a humorous sea shanty, but there are consequences for overindulging. The use...
Behind-the-Scenes of “The Lady Ranger of Yosemite”
The Horse Girl “The Lady Ranger of Yosemite” is the first time I’ve written a protagonist based on a real person. I cut my teeth on literary fiction...
Are Anniversaries Celebrated in Your Historical Fiction?
Anniversaries – the date on which an event took place in a previous year. History is full of anniversaries spanning the globe from deaths....
Eighty Excellent Online Historical Collections
I'm taking a break during this long, hot summer month and hope you enjoy this Eighty Excellent Online Historical Collections list link,first...
Words with a Wordsmith: Jane Loeb Rubin
What was the inspiration for your most recent book? Over There, the third book of the Gilded City...
Discovering History Through Mythology: The Road to Avalon
Anyone who has known me for some time understands my often peripatetic quest to collect myths and folklore from around the world. I have spent years...
A VERY Fashionable Historical Fiction List Link
I just finished a first draft of a new short story and because I wanted to explore the intersection between two different institutions—haute couture...
How Managing a Horse Boarding Ranch Informs My Historical Fiction
At 70 years old, I have an interesting, second career and “day job”. My husband and I live on and manage a horse boarding ranch, Equisance (Equine...
Do you need to be a historian to write great historical fiction?
Writing historical fiction can be a bit of a balancing act. It’s a tightrope walk—between being authentic enough to engage readers, and being...
8 Favorite Film Adaptations of Historical Fiction from Around the World
When I was ten years old, my mother told me that a famous American film Gone with the Wind will be playing at the movie theater in my hometown of...
Coming soon – a new Mary Fox adventure
I am convinced that my feisty Tudor heroine Mary Fox hates me. Why? Because I keep putting her into ever more desperate situations, and watching to...
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking
“All happy food memories are alike; all unhappy food memories are unhappy after their own fashion,” writes Anya Von Bremzen, playing on the opening...
Link List – Historical novels with a travel theme
The novel I am currently writing is The River of Fire, the third in my Mary Fox series, and it sees my Tudor-era heroine travelling from Norwich in...
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