Historical Fiction 101 ‹ CrimeReads

Once upon a time, I was writing contemporary romance, but now I'm celebrating the launch of my second YA historical. Like most time travelers, I'm not entirely sure how I fell 500 hundred years back into the past, but I love it here, and I plan to keep writing historical stories for a long time!

I was very intimidated (okay, terrified) when I first started writing historical fiction. What if I got something wrong? What if my inbox flooded with a million "well, actually" messages from well-meaning professors who wrote their entire dissertations on the topic?

As I grew more experienced writing historical, I've grown more confident about the process, and now I'm convinced that writing historical fiction is no harder or scarier than writing fiction set in the present; it's just different.