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Thank you ALynnPowers :) I'll check it out when I complete my next book in the coming weeks. It's Necronomicon/paranormal based with true incidents, so they'll be questions
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You really want your question asked, don't you? :P
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No, I just had a lot of questions come to me :P
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Post by ALynnPowers »

Hey everyone!! I have an interview coming up soon with a writer of historical fiction! And I'm making a call for interview questions!

I'm not much of a historical fiction reader, so to those of you who are: are there any kinds of questions you would specifically like for me to ask an author of historical fiction?

Ask away! I will be very likely to use them! I want to give others more credit for this next interview!
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Post by gali »

Nice!

* what's the most surprising thing you learned writing this book?

* Why did you choose this time period?

* What inspired you to use this genre?

* Have other writers of historical fiction influenced you? How?
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Post by Heidi M Simone »

Cool! Those are really good ones, gali! I'll piggy back on some of what you have. :)

- Have you ever written historical fiction prior to this book?

- What was the most challenging part of writing a book in this genre?

- How much of the subject matter were you already familiar with? How much research did you have to do to successfully accomplish writing a historical fiction novel?
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hsimone wrote:Cool! Those are really good ones, gali! I'll piggy back on some of what you have. :)

- Have you ever written historical fiction prior to this book?

- What was the most challenging part of writing a book in this genre?

- How much of the subject matter were you already familiar with? How much research did you have to do to successfully accomplish writing a historical fiction novel?
Thank you. Yours are good ones as well. :)
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gali wrote:
hsimone wrote:Cool! Those are really good ones, gali! I'll piggy back on some of what you have. :)

- Have you ever written historical fiction prior to this book?

- What was the most challenging part of writing a book in this genre?

- How much of the subject matter were you already familiar with? How much research did you have to do to successfully accomplish writing a historical fiction novel?
Thank you. Yours are good ones as well. :)
:text-thankyoublue:
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