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Book Review: The Running Vixen by Elizabeth Chadwick 1 Jun 2012 | 06:33 pm
The Running Vixen by Elizabeth Chadwick My rating: 4 of 5 stars Elizabeth Chadwick's THE RUNNING VIXEN, the sequel to her debut novel THE WILD HUNT, is much more than just another historical romance....
The Importance of Setting in Historical Romance 27 May 2012 | 05:43 am
Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Previously, I explored a couple of the ways in which setting is crucially important when writing fiction in general. For this blog post, I’m going to be looking ...
Setting in Fiction: Why it’s Important 17 May 2012 | 09:00 pm
In this two-part blog series, I’m going to be talking about how the actual setting of a historical romance story is a crucial element of the narrative and one which can be used to enhance the writing ...
The future of historical drama on TV 14 May 2012 | 07:28 pm
Although I’ve now come to the end of this blog series charting the highlights of the current crop of TV historical drama, there’s still more to come. Fans of well-written shows like those listed over ...
The Tudors: how historical drama on TV became so much fun 13 May 2012 | 10:19 pm
The final stop on our odyssey of historical drama entertainment on TV is The Tudors, one of the most successful of all series. It enjoyed huge viewing figures and lasted for four seasons, allowing ful...
Game of Thrones: recognisable history in a fantasy setting 12 May 2012 | 09:33 pm
Game of Thrones is, without a doubt, the best written of the TV dramas covered in this blog series, sitting comfortably at the top alongside Rome. Before the disgruntled outcries of ‘it’s fantasy, not...
Spartacus, a Roman gladiator TV show for mature audiences 11 May 2012 | 06:46 pm
While previous historical dramas covered in this blog series have been geared towards female viewers (or at least mixed audiences), Spartacus: Blood and Sand is a show that goes all-out for the male d...
Camelot, a fantastic soap opera in need of stronger writing 10 May 2012 | 11:13 pm
The short-lived TV series Camelot, which lasted for just one series before being cancelled, was an attempt to retell the King Arthur legend for audiences weaned on the sex-and-blood drama of Spartacus...
TV’s Rome, possibly the best historical drama ever made 9 May 2012 | 09:00 pm
Coming next in our journey of exploration was the HBO series Rome, which ran for two seasons from 2005 to 2007 before it was cancelled. If Pillars of the Earth is good, then Rome’s even better: a trul...
What writers can learn watching The Pillars of the Earth 9 May 2012 | 12:03 am
When Sue and I watched The Pillars of the Earth, the eight-part TV miniseries based on the novel by Ken Follett, we couldn’t believe what we were seeing: here was historical drama, done on a televisio...
