Negative Space, or What Will Won’t Do

Feb 5, 2013 | Shakespeare - The Novel - Theatre

It’s dangerous, playing the expectations game. You rewrite Romeo & Juliet, you’d best bring something new to the table. You write about the fall of Jerusalem, there had better be something surprising and uplifting in that awful story. And if you write a novel...

Verona – Travel and History

Jan 31, 2013 | Shakespeare - The Novel - Travel

Walk In the Footsteps of Dante There are two terrific options when it comes to reliving history. You can either read about certain eras or actually walk in the footsteps of history's greatest figures. Thanks to David Blixt's thrilling historical...

Truth, Motive, & Tone

Jan 30, 2013 | Books - Essential Posts - Shakespeare - The Novel - Writing

A huge component to what writers of Historical Fiction do is write about real people. That’s a huge component of what the readers are looking for – not just the clothes and habits of a distant time, but the flesh-and-blood beings who wore those clothes and had those...

Love is Love

Sep 7, 2012 | Books - Shakespeare - The Novel - Theatre

Here's a guest piece I wrote for Bilerico.com that ran last Sunday.  I’m getting some lovely praise for my new novel, HER MAJESTY’S WILL. I wrote it as a tongue-in-cheek spy story starring Will Shakespeare and Kit Marlowe, and it seems to be received...