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One of the downfalls of the marvellous Kingdom Pen was the fact that there were hardly any his-fic writers and that when I made a historical fiction topic, it thrived for about half an hour and then died.

HOWEVER

Story Embers has a lot of historical fictioners (yes, I made up that word), so we should all band together and discuss all the best parts of historical fiction and complain about research (or rejoice, if you enjoy it, which I do), etc.

So here’s a few questions for you: favourite time periods and figures? Best historical novels/authors? Current WIP?

My favourite time periods are: WW1, the French Revolution, Roman Britain, early Australian history, the early medieval period, and Anglo-Saxon Britain. A few of my favourite historical figures are the Wright Brothers, Manfred von Richthofen, King George VI, Nancy Bird, Joan of Arc, Marie Antoinette, etc. As far as I’m concerned, the queen of his-fic is Rosemary Sutcliff. And my current WIP is actually a fantasy (though really only fantasy in the fact that it takes place in a fictional universe) based on the life of Marie Antoinette. I’m also planning a WW1 novel for some time in the unspecified future.

Let me tag a few people. I apologise if I don’t get all of you. Feel free to come over and introduce yourself 😀

@selah-chelyah @ashira @wisdomofprose @rochellaine @scarletimmortalized @eden-anderson @libby @Samantha-pen