My pirate lead character is Captain Jesamiah Acorne, or I should say ex-pirate because at one point in the series he accepts the king’s amnesty and goes ‘straight’ (well, sort of). I write a nautical adventure series, alongside a few other genres – straight historical fiction, cozy mysteries, a couple of non-fiction books. The characters have to come alive, think, act, say, do, believable things – which is where the personal experience bit comes in. Whenever advice is given to new writers, it is usually ‘Write what you know about.’ That’s fine, good advice, up to a point, but writing historical fiction, to create an engrossing, page-turner of a novel will involve far more than writing down pages and pages of researched facts. Thank you, Joan, for inviting me onto your blog. Thank you for joining us, Helen and telling us about your books. Although her novels cover a broad time span of history, today she tells us about the challenges in writing about the Golden Age of Piracy in the 18th century. This month I am pleased to invite the well-known author and blogger, Helen Hollick, to Authors’ Corner, to share some of her thoughts and ideas on writing historical fiction.
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