Castles, Customs, and Kings: True Tales by English Historical Fiction Authors
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Barden, Jenny
Jenny Barden has had a love of history ever since an encounter in infancy with a suit of armour at Tamworth Castle. Training as an artist, followed by a career as a city solicitor, did little to help displace her early dream of becoming a knight. Impelled by a fascination with the Age of Discovery, she has travelled widely throughout the Americas, and much of the inspiration for her novels has come from retracing the steps of early adventurers in the New World. Jenny has four children and now lives in Dorset with her long suffering husband and an ever increasing assortment of pets.
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Batten, Prue
A former researcher/journalist with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the Australian version of the BBC) Prue Batten majored in history at university. She finds it a gentle irony to be moving back to the era she found most fascinating then, the Middle Ages. Prue spends as much time as she can by the water and with her dogs, has a huge affinity with gardens and embroidery, and takes pleasure and contentment in The Small Things.
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Beard, J. A.
J.A. Beard is a history-loving restless soul married to an equally restless soul and has two very restless children. He’s tried his hand at several careers, including intelligence analysis, programming, and research science. Though he likes to declare himself the Pie Master,
he’s yet to prove his worth in the brutal baking show-downs of Celebration, Florida.
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Bennetts, M.M.
A former book critic for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Christian Science Monitor, M.M. Bennetts is an historian specialising in early 19th century Europe and the author of two best-selling novels set amidst the turbulence of the Napoleonic wars: May 1812 and Of Honest Fame. An avid cross country rider, Bennetts is also an accomplished pianist and accompanist. She is now at work on a third novel, Or Fear of Peace. She blogs regularly about history.
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Bilyeau, Nancy
Nancy Bilyeau is a novelist and magazine editor who has worked on the staffs of InStyle, Good Housekeeping, and Rolling Stone. She graduated from the University of Michigan and lived in the American Midwest and Toronto, Ontario, before moving to New York City. She is descended from Pierre Billiou, the Huguenot settler who built one of the first stone houses in New York in 1665. Her Tudor-era mystery thriller The Crown was short-listed for the CWA’s Ellis Peters Historical in the 2012 Dagger Awards. The second book in her series, The Chalice, was published in North America and the United Kingdom in March 2013. Nancy is currently writing her third mystery novel, The Covenant.
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Bohannon, Teresa Thomas
Teresa Thomas Bohannon holds an M.A. in history, with a special concentration in women’s studies. Her Regency Romance novel A Very Merry Chase was inspired by the writings of Georgette Heyer. Her historical fantasy novel Shadows in a Timeless Myth was inspired by her desire to write revisionist history that explored the roles of women who lived outside the box.
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Brant, Lucinda
Lucinda Brant writes bestselling Georgian historical romances with wit and adventure, and crimances—crime with lashings of romance. All her books are set in the 18th century, spanning 1740 to early 1780s Georgian England, with occasional crossings to the France of Louis XV.
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Brown, Debra
Debra has enjoyed varied creative pursuits and has worked in the interior design field. While making jewelry, she watched all the period dramas she could find. Her Victorian story The Companion of Lady Holmeshire was written when they ran out. She is now working on The Dante and Evangeline Series. Its first novel, For the Skylark, was inspired by the Dickens’ character Miss Havisham. Debra runs the English Historical Fiction Authors blog and the Goodreads group Historical Info for Historical Fiction Readers.
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Brown, Phillip
Phillip Brown is a retired computer consultant who has been collecting and researching Victorian art for nearly 40 years, particularly the Pre-Raphaelites. He has always found it fascinating how art of the time reflects social life and attitudes and the lives of the artists. It’s an exciting time for Victorian studies and exhibitions, and they can lead to so many exciting discoveries.
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Byrd, Sandra
Bestselling author Sandra Byrd has now published more than forty books, recently focusing especially on England-set historicals. Her novels To Die For: A Novel of Anne Boleyn and The Secret Keeper: A Novel of Kateryn Parr were selected by Library Journal as Best Books Picks for 2011 and 2012. Roses Have Thorns: A Novel of Elizabeth I published in April, 2013. Please visit www.sandrabyrd.com to learn more and for the most up-to-date information on her forthcoming series, Daughters of Hampshire, also set in historic England.
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Calkins, Susanna
Susanna is the author of A Murder at Rosamund’s Gate and From the Charred Remains (St. Martin’s Press /Minotaur Books), a historical mystery series featuring Lucy Campion, a crime-solving chambermaid in plague-ridden 17th century London. Susanna received her PhD in early modern English history from Purdue University.
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Campbell, John
As a classically trained musician, John B. Campbell developed an interest in history while touring Europe in his youth. An interest in creative writing came along with his mid-life crisis. Campbell’s debut novel, Walk to Paradise Garden, earned an editor’s desk review wherein Harper Collins described his book as, “compulsively readable.” The author lives north of Milwaukee, WI with his wife Pamela and their two dogs.
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Collison, Linda
Linda Collison’s novel, Star-Crossed, was published by Knopf in 2006 and chosen by the New York Public Library to be among the Books for the Teen Age—2007. Her fiction has won awards from the former Maui Writers’ Conference, the Southwest Writers, and Honolulu Magazine. Her short stories, essays and articles have appeared in Ladies Home Journal, Skydiving, American Baby, Parachutist, Sailing Magazine, Cruising World, and RN. Her nautical historical novels include Barbados Bound and Surgeon’s Mate.
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Cowell, Stephanie
Born in New York City, Stephanie Cowell fell in love with history, music, Shakespeare, and art almost at once. She started to write stories very young, and by the age of twenty had won prizes twice in a national story contest. Stephanie is married to the poet and spiritual director Russell Clay and they make their home on the Upper West Side of New York City where they live in an apartment with thousands of books. To Stephanie, being an historical novelist is one of the best things in the world!
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Davison, Anita
Born in London, Anita began writing 17th century historical family sagas, then tried out Victorian romance. She now feels she has found her niche with 17th century historical biographical novels with her latest book, Royalist Rebel, released by Claymore Books in early 2013 under the name Anita Seymour. She writes reviews for Romantic Historical Lovers and the Historical Novel Review Blog.
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Denning, Richard
Richard Denning is a historical fiction and fantasy author. He works as a GP in the West Midlands. He has always been fascinated by historical settings as well as by horror and fantasy. Other than writing, hi
s main interests are games of all types. He is the designer of a board game based on the Great Fire of London. His most popular book is The Amber Treasure—Dark Ages historical fiction.
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Denvil, Barbara Gaskell
Barbara Gaskell Denvil was born in Gloucestershire, England. Moving to London, she built up a career publishing numerous short stories and articles while also working as a critic and editor, television scriptwriter, and publishers’ reader. She then spent many hot and colourful years sailing the Mediterranean and living in various European countries. Finally, she has moved to rural Australia where she lives amongst the parrots and wallabies and writes historical fiction.
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Elliot, Grace
Grace Elliot leads a double life as a veterinarian by day and author of historical romance by night. She is addicted to cats and is housekeeping staff for five adorable moggies—Wallace, Gromit, Pilchard, Widget, and her daughter Noni. Grace started writing as an escape from an emotionally demanding job and believes all intelligent people need romance in their lives—as an antidote to the modern world.
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English, Christy
After years of acting in Shakespeare’s plays, Christy English is excited to bring the Bard to Regency England in her recent romances published by Sourcebooks Casablanca (How To Tame A Willful Wife, Love on A Midsummer Night). Christy indulged her obsession with Eleanor of Aquitaine and 12th century England and France in her historical novels The Queen’s Pawn and To Be Queen.
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Gilbert, Lauren
Lauren Gilbert lives in Florida with her husband. Lauren obtained a degree in English and Art History, and is a member of JASNA. An avid reader, she has always dreamed of writing, and has a stockpile of notes and manuscripts started and laid aside. Heyerwood: A Novel is her first published novel.
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Grace, Maria
Though Maria Grace has been writing fiction since she was ten years old, those early efforts happily reside in a file drawer and are unlikely to see the light of day again, for which many are grateful. She has one husband, two graduate degrees and two black belts, three sons, four undergraduate majors, five nieces, six cats, seven Regency-era fiction projects and notes for eight more writing projects in progress. To round out the list, she cooks for nine in order to accommodate the growing boys and usually makes ten meals at a time so she only cooks twice a month.
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Higginbotham, Scott
Scott Higginbotham is the author of A Soul’s Ransom, For a Thousand Generations, and A Matter of Honor, novels which complement one another. All the books are historical in nature and are populated with characters and contexts that connect with modern readers. He believes that books should serve as a means of escaping the trials of daily living, where the impossible becomes possible, and where readers are refreshed and left with good and enduring truths.
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Higgins, Marie
Marie Higgins is a best-selling, multi-published author of sweet romance—from refined bad-boy heroes who make your heart melt to the feisty heroines who somehow manage to love them regardless of their faults. Visit her website/blog to discover more about her.
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Inbinder, Gary
Gary Inbinder is a retired attorney who left the practice of law to write full time. Gary holds a J.D. from the University of La Verne (California) where he received an American Jurisprudence Award for Legal Writing and a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Illinois, Chicago. Gary is a member of the Historical Novel Society and the Bewildering Stories Editorial Review Board. His short fiction, articles, and essays appear in Bewildering Stories, Halfway Down the Stairs, Morpheus Tales, Humanitas, Touchstone Magazine and other publications. Fireship Press published his novels The Flower to the Painter (2011) and Confessions of the Creature (2012).
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Jones, Sherry
Internationally best-selling novelist and award-winning journalist Sherry Jones has been writing professionally since the age of 18, when she landed her first newspaper reporting job in her hometown. She says, “I strive for beautifully written page-turners that explore relationships and power, especially women’s power in a man’s world. My novels portray women in history who have achieved power over others as well as—especially—over their own lives, in spite of patriarchal limits. I hope that, in telling their stories, I can inspire others to dream big, to aim high, to dare to make a difference no matter how impossible doing so might seem.”
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Keyworth, Philippa Jane
Known to her friends as Pip, Philippa Jane Keyworth has been writing since she was twelve in every notebook she could find. Add to this her love for reading, history, and horse-riding, and you have the perfect recipe for writing Regency romances. Pip’s debut novel, The Widow’s Redeemer (Madison Street Publishing, 2012), brings to life the romance between a young widow with an indomitable spirit and a wealthy viscount with an unsavory reputation.
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Kyle, Barbara
Barbara Kyle is the author of the acclaimed Tudor-era “Thornleigh Saga” novels The Queen’s Lady, The King’s Daughter, The Queen’s Captive, The Queen’s Gamble and Blood Between Queens and of contemporary thrillers. Her books have been published in seven countries, with over 400,000 copies sold in North America. Barbara is known for her dynamic workshops for writers. Before becoming an author Barbara enjoyed a twenty-year acting career in the U.S. and Canada. She and her husband live in Ontario.
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Lewis, Diane Scott
Diane Parkinson (Diane Scott Lewis) writes book reviews for the Historical Novels Review and worked at The Wild Rose Press from 2007 to 2010 as a historical editor. She has three published historical novels: Elysium and The False Light, and her sequel to The False Light, Without Refuge, which was released in March 2012. Her debut novel, The False Light, will be re-released by Books We Love, re-titled Betrayed Countess.
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Lofting, Paula
Paula Lofting works as a psychiatric nurse and writes in her spare time. She lives in Sussex and is an active member of Regia Anglorum re-enactment society. It was always her ambition to write a novel. In her forties, she began on the journey that has led her to her first book, Sons of the Wolf, the first in a series of books about the Norman conquest of England. She is currently working on the sequel The Wolf Banner.
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Lortz, Rosanne E.
Rosanne E. Lortz is a medieval enthusiast, a book addict, and a native of Oregon. She taught high school history for several years before “retiring” to stay at home with her four boys and write historical fiction. Her debut novel, I Serve: A Novel of the Black Prince, is a fourteenth century adventure/romance. Her second book, Road from the West: Book I of the Chronicles of Tancred, begins a trilogy set during the First Crusade.
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Luce, Wanda
Wanda Luce’s great passion for British Literature was born in the stories spun by Charles Dickens and Jane Austen. The old-world vocabulary and sentence construction as well as the historical settings of their books hold a strong enchantment for her and propelled her into a love of writing Regency-era novels. At present, she resides with her husband and two sons in Utah.
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McGrath, Caro
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Carol has a degree in Russian Studies and English from Queens University, Belfast, where she was taught by Seamus Heaney. She took an MA in Creative Writing at QUB in 2003 and followed this with an MPhil at Royal Holloway (University of London in English and Creative Writing). She currently reviews for the HNS Review. Carol’s debut novel, The Handfasted Wife, first in the trilogy The Daughters of Hastings, is published by Accent Press and can be purchased for all e-readers and as a paperback from Amazon.
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Moss, Tom
Tom Moss is a textile technologist by profession and currently manages a specialist weaving concern in north Cumbria, England, just a few miles south of the border between England and Scotland. Fascinated by its turbulent history, Tom’s passion is the Border Reivers—a people whose history is replete with theft, murder, and family feud; a people who had no love for either monarchy or authority. Tom’s blog has more than 100 posts about the Border Reivers at http://wwwborderreiverstories-neblessclem.blogspot.com/.
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O’Brien, Anne
Anne O’Brien lives in the Welsh Marches, indulging her love of history by writing about medieval women, their lives, loves, and the influences that shaped them. Anne Neville, wife of Richard III stars in Virgin Widow, splendid Eleanor of Aquitaine in Queen Defiant. The King’s Concubine features Alice Perrers, mistress to Edward III, and Katherine de Valois relives her marriage to Henry V and affair with Owen Tudor in The Forbidden Queen.