The Historical Novel Society (HNS) published my essay “The Goldilocks Question” about finding the “just right” balance between history and fiction in historical fiction. The essay is part of a feature promoting the HNS June 2025 conference. Read more in ESSAYS.
Ann’s historical fiction is “just right”
Why writers write: “Writing a novel is taking life as it exists to make an object that might contain this life inside it, something that never was and will not be again.” – Eudora Welty
