Charlotte Betts

Here are some questions to open a Book Club discussion on The Dressmaker’s Secret but feel free to make up your own!

The more I discovered about Princess Caroline of Brunswick’s extraordinary and tragic life, the more I knew I had to write about her.

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?’

I’m delighted to welcome Carol McGrath as guest author to my website today. Carol and I both write historical fiction and are members of the Romantic Novelists’ Association. I thoroughly enjoyed reading Carol’s debut novel, The Handfasted Wife and am delighted that Carol joins me on the shortlist for the RoNAs in the Historical category….

Writing historical fiction is not so very different from contemporary fiction; both need a sizzling plot and strong characters. But there are some aspects to historical fiction which need more thought.