Tag Archives: Historical fiction

A New Beginning?

Posted on January 7, 2021 by hcannam

‘A Hidden Fire’ is launched on the world, after years in the making. Time now to take down the yellowing, faded notes and reminders blu-tacked above my desk and get ready for the next work in progress. It all feels … Continue reading →

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Remember, remember…

Posted on October 24, 2020 by hcannam

Memories are getting shorter, I guess. Halloween has taken over our British celebration of Bonfire Night, the one I remember from childhood, when after dark on November 5 we lit bonfires in our back gardens (I can still smell and … Continue reading →

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More than a pause…

Posted on June 23, 2017 by hcannam

Things don’t always go according to plan. There must be a good many people who’ve thought that over the past year—David Cameron and Theresa May among them. But it’s not just out in the wide world that life can scatter … Continue reading →

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Critical pause…

Posted on May 12, 2016 by hcannam

I’d forgotten how much work is involved in writing a historical novel. It’s not just the research, but the need to immerse yourself in the minds and hearts of people living in very different times, with quite different hopes and … Continue reading →

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Ruthless Revision

Posted on July 29, 2015 by hcannam

I should have known it was mistake. Being married to a man with an aversion to history, and no historical sense at all, is not perhaps ideal for a writer of historical novels. What’s more, I never, ever, let anyone … Continue reading →

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We are what we wear?

Posted on July 13, 2015 by hcannam

‘Mabels’, they used to be called, at least when (as Caroline Martin) I was being published by Mills and Boon back in the late 70s/early 80s. That stood for ‘Mills and Boon in a Long Skirt’, which was the publishers’ … Continue reading →

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Taming the ‘wild child’

Posted on May 19, 2015 by hcannam

Bestselling author Wendy Robertson calls it the ‘wild child’. A good name, I think, for the impulse a writer draws on for the first draft of a new novel. Wendy herself does her first drafts in longhand, with pen and … Continue reading →

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‘The Last Ballad’ on offer!

Posted on March 1, 2015 by hcannam

My saga based on the lives of a family of Weardale leadminers in 1818, ‘The Last Ballad,’ is available in the UK Kindle store for 99p until Sunday March 8.

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The critical self-publisher?

Posted on January 5, 2015 by hcannam

Does self-publishing make one more critical of one’s own writing? Or is that something that inevitably comes with age and experience? Maybe it’s simply that most of the books I’ve recently self-published were written long ago (and formerly published by … Continue reading →

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A Kind of – Ending?

Posted on May 26, 2014 by hcannam

At long last! After almost two years, every one of my out-of-print back titles has at last been scanned, edited, sometimes revised, and finally converted to ebook format. All 19 of them are now launched in the Kindle store, along … Continue reading →

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