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Thoughts on Writing The King’s Daughter
Becoming an author wasn’t anything I’d ever imagined doing throughout most of my life. In fact, the very idea of it, when it came, found me like a deer caught in the headlights. The more common tale for the authors I know is that they had dreamed of writing books ever since they were children. That wasn’t the case for me. If the idea had been suggested any earlier in my life, I would have found the notion utterly laughable. It wasn’t until a New York Times best-selling author nudged me that I caught on. The resulting experiment led to the inspiration for my first book. Let me explain. I…
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ARCHIVE: Elizabeth’s Side of the Story, a guest post by Samantha Wilcoxson
I am often asked why I choose to write about the women in my books. In the case of Elizabeth Woodville, protagonist of Once a Queen, I felt the need to tell her side of the story. You see, in the first book in my Plantagenet Embers series, Elizabeth comes across just as harsh and scheming as many expect her to be. It is difficult to shine in comparison to her daughter, Elizabeth of York. After finishing the trilogy, I felt like it was time to return to the beginning and give voice to a few secondary characters, including Margaret Beaufort, Elizabeth Woodville, and Reginald Pole. In Plantagenet Princess, Tudor…
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ARCHIVE: Why I write Historical fiction set in the Middle Ages, a guest post by Elizabeth Chadwick
There are two reasons that I write historical fiction set in the Middle Ages. One goes back to Childhood and the other to my teenage years. If neither had happened I might still have been a writer, but who knows what my chosen subject would have been. To begin at the beginning I need to tell you how I came to be a writer in the first place. I told myself stories throughout my childhood, but they were verbal – I never wrote anything down, and I didn’t tell them to other people; they were just for me. My earliest memory of telling stories goes back to being three years…
