by Stephanie Dray | Sep 19, 2015 | For Writers, Historical Fiction Genre, Miscellany
Last year I threw together a list of 10 Tips for Aspiring Historical Fiction Authors. But to some extent or other, we’re all always aspiring, as I’ve never really known a writer who was satisfied. Now I’m back with ten more tips that might be helpful...
by Stephanie Dray | Aug 14, 2015 | America's First Daughter, American Revolution, Historical Fiction Genre, My Works
Tasty Book Tours is Pleased to Present… AMERICA’S FIRST DAUGHTER Stephanie Dray & Laura Kamoie Releasing March 1st, 2016 William Morrow Historical Fiction In a compelling, richly researched novel that draws from thousands of letters and original...
by Stephanie Dray | May 4, 2015 | Historical Fiction Genre, Other Writers, Reviews
Let me tell you what I regret about Jeannie Lin’s THE LOTUS PALACE. I regret every day that I didn’t read this book. Now, understand that I wanted to read it. I wanted to read it so much that I somehow own three copies–one in paperback, one for the...
by Stephanie Dray | Mar 17, 2014 | America's First Daughter, For Readers, Fun Stuff, Historical Fiction Genre, Research
Laura Kamoie and I get a lot of questions about the basis of William Short’s character in America’s First Daughter. The wonderful Megan Brett did me and my co-author a solid last weekend and went to UVA to help us find a letter in which one of Patsy...
by Stephanie Dray | Feb 13, 2014 | For Writers, Historical Fiction Genre
I’m mostly unqualified to be giving career tips–better to ask someone who has had a long and storied historical fiction career like Margaret George, Bernard Cornwall, Diana Gabaldon, Wilbur Smith, Philippa Gregory, etcetera. But the request comes up...
by Stephanie Dray | Aug 12, 2013 | Daughters of the Nile, Historical Fiction Genre, Lily of the Nile, Miscellany, My Works, Song of the Nile
On August 12, 30 BC, the most powerful woman in the history of the western world breathed her last. Some claim it was murder. Others claim it was serpenticide. (My opinions were published here in my post, How Did Cleopatra Really Die?) But however it happened, then...
