Since the sale of my debut novel, Bronte’s Mistress , I’ve been answering aspiring authors’ burning questions about writing and publishing a...

In my Writers’ Questions series , I’ve been tackling need-to-know topics about the craft and business of writing, but in today’s post it’s t...

The novels I’ve reviewed as part of my Neo-Victorian Voices series , on books written in the twenty-first century but set in the nineteenth,...

William Dean Howells’s 1889 A Hazard of New Fortunes is the sort of nineteenth-century novel that remembers it has a plot halfway through. ...

I’m something of a Bronte fanatic. After all, my own debut novel ( Bronte’s Mistress ) was inspired by a real-life scandal that rocked liter...