Readers are often interested to know where I write. Whilst still working full-time I wrote whenever and wherever I could, often scribbling a few words in the early morning before rushing off to work. I usually took my…
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Ten Interesting Facts About Life in Seventeenth Century
Ten Interesting Random Facts About Life in Seventeenth Century
The Chateau on the Lake – The Inspiration behind the story
What inspired me to write The Chateau on the Lake? I began with the vague thought that it would be interesting to write a love story set at the time of the French Revolution. I didn’t know much about it then but everyone knows that the starving poor rebelled against the greedy aristocrats and beheaded Louis XVI, don’t they? Except that, once I started to research, I quickly discovered that it wasn’t as straightforward as that.
An Exciting New Venture!
Writing can be a lonely business.
Tagged with: creative writing, finding an agent, retreats, workshops
Posted in Events, My Writing Life, News
Posted in Events, My Writing Life, News
What’s Your Problem?
Conflict is an essential ingredient of a good story. I’d go so far as to say that without conflict there is no story. It catches the reader’s imagination and makes them ask themselves, ‘What would I do in this…
Tagged with: conflict, emotions, external conflict, internal conflict, writing tips
Posted in Book List, Writing Tips
Posted in Book List, Writing Tips
Settings to Hook Your Reader
Never underestimate the importance of setting in your novel. Setting is a great deal more than simply the place where your story happens. Used to maximum advantage, the setting will enhance your characters and the plot while enriching the readers’…
Posted in Writing Tips
My Christmas Memories
My younger brother and I grew up during the fifties and sixties and some of our happiest memories are those of Christmas. The celebrations began on Stir-Up Sunday.
Q & A with Maeva, Spanish publishers of The Apothecary’s Daughter
First off, Charlotte, we’d like to get to know you better as a writer: what inspires you? It’s hard to be precise because inspiration comes from many places; reading a newspaper, hearing a family story, a girl in a red…
Tagged with: apothecary, black rat, herbal médecine, plague, The Apothecary's Daughter
Posted in My Writing Life, Seventeenth Century Life, The Apothecary's Daughter
Posted in My Writing Life, Seventeenth Century Life, The Apothecary's Daughter
Romance or History?
One of the questions readers often ask me when they know I write romantic historical fiction, is ‘Which is the most important to you, the romance or the history?’ It’s a very interesting question and my usual answer is that…
Always a bookworm, Charlotte discovered her passion for writing after her three children and two step-children had grown up. She lives with her husband in a cottage in the woods on the borders of Hampshire and Berkshire.
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