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.
Charlotte Betts
The Dressmaker’s Secret – cover reveal!
I’ve been working behind the scenes with my editor and the graphic designer and am thrilled with the cover for The Dressmaker’s Secret.
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 hat hurrying by, an overheard conversation, a sonnet by Shakespeare … The magic happens when you combine several different elements and ask ‘What if …’ Suddenly you have the beginnings of a story.
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?’
