Articles related to "Historical Setting"

Museums, libraries and private collections are the place to go to find primary sources and give your historical fiction an authentic voice.

What elements make great historical picture books and magazine stories?

Newspapers, directories, maps and even cookbooks have incredible details for your historical fiction.

Use historical details to anchor your story in time and place, says Calkins Creek editor Carolyn P. Yoder.

Benefit from the experience of children's author Vashti Farrer: timely advice for writers who want to submit historical fiction to children's book publishers.

When high-born William de Lacey saves a highwayman's life, he cannot guess how his own life will change.

Sacred Hearts is a title that evokes images of the passion of Christ. The religious title is ironic, because in the end this story is not about religion, but about power.

Marriages in the fall months can take advantage of the splendid natural wedding décor with themes of harvest, autumn flowers, romantic settings, spices and jewel tones.

Delacorte Press and Delacorte Dell Yearling award book contracts and cash for new children's novelists; Milkweed Editions awards extra cash to a new Milkweed author.

Czech's capital is a city of beauty. Be it the Astronomical Clock or Prague Castle, there are many stunning sights the city has to offer...including some of its hotels.

Works and brief biography of Daphne du Maurier, English novelist, short-story writer and biographer, her bestseller books are blockbuster movies.

Are you interested in painting an interior room of your Victorian house in appropriate historical colors? Here are some tips for choosing the right shades.

To break into the Travel Writing industry and carve a career in this field, these professional writing courses will equip new writers with the skills needed to impress.

Unique structure, solid historical facts, and a page-turning plot are all elements Karen Hesse has included to make this book a great summer pick!

Best ever Year's Best SF anthology.

According to the Romance Writer's of America, the romance novel contains a central love story and an emotionally satisfying ending.

Crapemyrtles (Lagerstroemia) are summer-bloomers in southern U.S. landscape gardens. Grown for over two hundred years, these plants are often called "southern lilacs."

Need some exercises to get those creative juices flowing? Here are some ideas to make even the least imaginative brain loosen up.

If you're thinking about writing a historical romance but having a hard time with history, you may consider writing a costume historical romance.

Do you dread going to the gym? Get bored walking the treadmill? Put the fun back in fitness to lose weight.

Discovering the Rosetta-Stone was pivotal in unraveling inscriptions found on ancient monuments from Alexandria to Abu Simbel

"Loving Frank" is a fictionalized account of the real life relationship between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Borthwick Cheney.

The inspiration for Andy Griffith's Mayberry, Mount Airy, NC offers a vibrant downtown with many specialty shops and the source for local crafts and wines.

Although not all the Oscar winners from the later 1990s were as good as those from the first half of the decade, most were entertaining and are worth at least one viewing

Puritan men feared losing control of their women. So, in 1692, they found a way to control them; causing hysteria throughout their village.

The home of golf is St Andrews in the Scottish Kingdom of Fife. The Coastal area of Fife provides the ideal conditions for Links Golf for golfers from around the world.

Set in Georgian England, Eloisa James offers a series of entertaining romances sure to delight fans of historical fiction looking for a fun, light-hearted read.

A visitor's guide to the Yankee Peddler Festival, an event with art and unique crafts for sale in Canal Fulton, Ohio, for three weekends after Labor Day.

Night at the Museum is a perfect movie: kids love it, parents like it, and teachers endorse it. A fun follow up activity is to discover which exhibits truly exist.

Romance novels are about happy endings. Many women love them, and no wonder. The best writers will transport a reader to a place far removed from everyday life.

Holiday landscapes and decorations in the Colonial Williamsburg Christmas Look highlight this first Web Site of the Month topic for Landscaping at Suite101.

Curators once showed their archives, art & artifact collections in dull, predictable displays. Digitalized archives, streaming video & world travel killed that plan.

It didn't all start with The Passion and The Da Vinci Code. Here's my picks for the best of religion in the movies.

Lady Julia Grey and the enigmatic Nicholas Brisbane are reunited in Silent on the Moor.

Kara Mustafa was the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1676 to 1683, and the architect behind the 1683 siege of Vienna.