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Travel Guides and Writing Historical Fiction
I’ve been consulting the travel guides recently as I write a novel set in World War I Egypt. I’ve personally visited the other locations in my novel, but I won’t be able to travel to Cairo anytime...
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Susan Page Davis: 12 Brides of Christmas
As a veteran writer of 50 novels, Susan Page Davis loves historical fiction and often finds inspiration from her family history. While her own family always had a Christmas tree–no surprise since she...
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Happily Ever After: A Silent Night
Can a Silent Night lead to a happily ever after life? Before writing for A Pioneer Christmas Collection, Anna Urquhart had seldom heard of pioneers traveling by water and examined the opening of the...
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Henry Huggins as Historical Fiction?
It’s a sobering moment when you realize Henry Huggins, in some camps, is considered historical fiction. How can a book I read and loved as a child be considered . . . . historical? Beverly Cleary‘s...
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Finding Winnie: the Pooh Bear’s True History
This year’s Caldecott award went to a picture book that tells the true story behind a novel: Finding Winnie. A charming story about the author’s great-grandfather. Finding Winnie describes how he...
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Mr. & Mrs Luther in Fact and Fiction
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Luther have been the subject of two important books in the last year. The first, Luther and Katharina: a Novel of Love and Rebellion by Jody Hedlund, won last year’s Christy Award...
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Biblical Fiction and Bible Study Preparation
I’m using biblical fiction as I prepare for this fall’s Bible study. I know fiction means not-true and therefore isn’t the best way to prepare to lead a study if I’m not reading scripture. Silly. Of...
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The Drama of Primary Source Materials
Primary Source Materials are first-hand accounts of events, like this: “I was too young to remember her. I do not have the faintest recollection of her.“They told me Aunt Hannah made a white dress for...
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Historical Fiction and Genealogy
Historical fiction can be an excellent gateway to genealogy. “They” say if you want to know political history, you should read history books. But if you want to understand the manners, mores, and life...
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