15 Ways to Help an Author

We know you love to read. You know that it’s tough for authors to get noticed. With more than a million new titles published each year, we need all the support we can get. So this is a Public Service Announcement on behalf of all authors, not just Tall Poppy...

HistFic Secrets: 10 Secrets to Writing a Biographical Novel

By Sally Koslow 1. Pick a Human Subject You Find Genuinely Fascinating Unless they’re crazy-fast, most writers spend at least a year completing a manuscript, and once it’s sold, another year or two may pass until publication. After that, promotion continues for a...

HistFic Secrets: For the Love of Art

By Tall Poppy Writer Heather Webb Being a female artist in Belle Époque France was a challenge to say the least, yet young sculptor Camille Claudel would carve out a name for herself—at all cost. Attending proper art school with nude models was frowned upon, and in...

The Crime Corner with Kate Moretti: In Conversation with Kimberley Belle: THREE DAYS MISSING

I might be a little biased here but I ADORE Kimberley Belle. I love her books, her style, her writing and frankly, we’ve met and she’s absolutely DARLING in person. She made me drink Fireball in Nashville and we listened to some amazing music and had a...

HistFic Secrets: What a Ghost Wants

By Susan Meissner As a historical fiction novelist, I’m always on the prowl for a historical backdrop that still has something to tell us and hasn’t had much light thrown on it in recent years. Not long ago, when I was looking for a place in which to set a new book, I...

HistFic Secrets: When Research Brings the Story

By, Tall Poppy Writer Janie Chang Many people think historical novelists do extensive research to ensure historical accuracy. Our guilty secret? We research extensively because we’re history geeks. We often research way past the point of necessity, happily falling...