https://booksbywomen.org/blending-history-into-fiction-gail-cleare/ Tue, 15 Nov 2016 11:26:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://booksbywomen.org/blending-history-into-fiction-gail-cleare/#comment-48080 Tue, 15 Nov 2016 11:26:16 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=16719#comment-48080 Thank you Jennifer. It’s advice I always give other authors, but so hard to do it myself!

]]> https://booksbywomen.org/blending-history-into-fiction-gail-cleare/#comment-48079 Tue, 15 Nov 2016 09:55:52 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=16719#comment-48079 Great article! It is so easy to get swept up in your research and add too much, thereby overwhelming the reader. Good advice about where to draw the line! I especially like your phrasing, ‘sprinkling the historic details lightly’.

]]> https://booksbywomen.org/blending-history-into-fiction-gail-cleare/#comment-48056 Thu, 03 Nov 2016 14:49:50 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=16719#comment-48056 Thanks, Diana! I hope you enjoy the read.

]]> https://booksbywomen.org/blending-history-into-fiction-gail-cleare/#comment-48053 Thu, 03 Nov 2016 11:42:35 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=16719#comment-48053 The ‘journey’ of research often throws up such fascinating surprises and sends you in directions you did not expect. It must have been difficult to back track and rewrite the story from a personal viewpoint but I expect the joy of knowing Mary so well by the end was rewarding ~ as if you’d uncovered a person in your life who became part of your very self. I’ll check the book out and write a review.

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