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About Paper Lantern Writers
We’re the Paper Lantern Writers, an creator collective centered on historic fiction of all eras. From the medieval world to WWII (and past), in locales all over the world, from romantic to tragic, and again once more, our books will take you on the journeys of a lifetime.
There’s a narrative to be instructed in every single place you look and we’d like to be your tour guides.
Paper Lantern Writers embrace: Ana Brazil, Edie Cay, C.V. Lee, Kathryn Pritchett, Linda Ulleseit, Anne M. Beggs, Mari Christie, Rebecca D’Harlingue, Jillianne Hamilton, Jonathan Posner, Alina Rubin, Vanitha Sankaran
On to Our Interview!
Q. Inform us who you’re and what conjures up you to jot down.
A. We’re the Paper Lantern Writers (PLW), a dozen award-winning historic fiction writers banding collectively to cross-promote our books and quick tales.
Writing and selling historic fiction is an exhilarating, maddening, terrifying, mysterious, wretched, and miraculous expertise, however it’s a lot simpler when you’ve a fellow author that can assist you out.
We’re impressed to jot down as a result of the previous intrigues us, and we take pleasure in making sense out of it by crafting emotionally-rich, adventurous, fascinating characters and tales.
Q. How did you get to this place in your life? Share your story!
A. On the 2019 Historic Novel Society Convention, Linda Ulleseit, Ana Brazil, and Kathryn Pritchett attended a panel concerning the challenges of promotion, and shortly realized that working as a gaggle to advertise every others’ books made a variety of sense.
Paper Lantern Writers began with 5 Northern California authors and expanded internationally. We printed a historic fiction anthology–UNLOCKED–in 2022, and loved it a lot that we printed two extra: BENEATH A MIDWINTER MOON (2023) and DESTINY COMES DUE (2024). We determined to share our hard-earned writing information with CRAFTING STORIES FROM THE PAST: A HOW-TO GUIDE FOR WRITING HISTORICAL FICTION.
Q. What are you most enthusiastic about?
A. Every of us are enthusiastic about telling tales set previously, however after that, our passions fluctuate.
Our writing dips into so many historic genres: thriller and romance; household heritage tales; ladies’s fiction; journey, and generational saga.
It’s a variety of enjoyable to learn the variability inside our group!
Q. Are you able to inform us just a little bit about your writing course of, routine, and/or rituals round your writing?
A. Though we created PLW to advertise our historic fiction–and decidedly to not critique one another’s writing–through the years we do focus on our newest works, cheer one another on, and rejoice every win.
Each month we host a write-in for our members to share house through Zoom. It’s an effective way for us to announce intentions and tasks, and get the job finished!
Q. What are a number of challenges you confronted in creating, advertising, or publishing your inventive work? And your options to them.
A. All of our members are self, hybrid, or indie printed, and–as each author learns–the most important problem to discovering readers is being seen.
There are a variety of nice books popping out each week, and to maintain our books from getting misplaced, we work collectively to cross-promote our fiction.
We’ve bought our personal Paper Lantern Writers web site the place we weblog twice-a-week about studying and writing historic fiction. We host a Fb Group–Paper Lantern Readers–that brings collectively readers and writers from all over the world, and now we have a month-to-month e-newsletter to share our private tales with readers.
We’re additionally lively on Instagram, have spoken at quite a few historic fiction occasions, and like to share our books at guide festivals.
We rejoice one another’s publications by means of our particular person newsletters, substacks, and social media accounts.
Q. What do you want you had identified earlier than you began writing fiction?
A. You’ll should learn our CRAFTING STORIES FROM THE PAST: A HOW-TO GUIDE FOR WRITING HISTORICAL FICTION to seek out that out!
Q. What’s subsequent for you in your inventive work?
A. Our weekly blogs are extremely inventive and every month we discover a subject we’re inquisitive about.
Along with our non-fiction craft guide, we’re publishing one other anthology in November 2025.
Q. Is there the rest you wished I’d requested? Please share!
A. All our data is on our web site and social media. Be part of us there!
Are you fascinated by writing previously? Do you surprise find out how to convey antiquity to life? To satisfy the weighty problem of writing historic fiction and enliven your plot, characters, setting, and story, choose up Crafting Tales from the Previous from the Paper Lantern Writers. Irrespective of how, when, or the place within the historic world your creativeness takes you, this information will help.
Paper Lantern Writers, an award-winning worldwide collective of historic fiction novelists, developed and curated this compendium of insightful how-to articles from style consultants, twenty-four chapters of hard-earned knowledge from working authors. From deciding when and what to analysis to constructing a historic world, we convey you sensible recommendation, authorial insights, and useful steering to make your writing course of simpler, begin to end.
These incisive how-tos are adopted by analysis and writing assets culled from the authors’ personal cabinets: the locations these professionals go to analysis and write their very own books. Whether or not you’re simply beginning your path into the previous or are a seasoned multi-book creator, now we have suggestions, methods, concepts, and assets you need to use at each stage of your writing journey.
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