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Book Club Questions: The Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict
The Queens of Crime novel

Kim Pink
May 243 min read


Historical Fiction Book Review: Biloxi, A Story of Hope by Scott Parish
Biloxi, A Story of Hope

Kim Pink
Apr 182 min read


Book Club Questions: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Lessons in Chemistry

Kim Pink
Jan 26, 20242 min read


Book Club Questions: The Sin Eater by Megan Campisi
Use this series of questions when your book club reads The Sin Eater by Megan Campisi.

Kim Pink
Nov 11, 20232 min read


Writing a Novel: the Importance of Naming Characters
How to name characters in your novel is a skill I learned through failure. Here are four top tips and resources to help you name characters.

Kim Pink
Sep 16, 20234 min read


Book Club Questions: Homecoming by Kate Morton
Use these book club questions to help your book lovers discuss Homecoming by Kate Morton.

Kim Pink
Jul 2, 20232 min read


The Curse of Filtering | Writing Technique | Editing A Novel
Understand how to identify filtering in your novel and delete it for a faster, crisper manuscript. Editing a novel.

Kim Pink
May 22, 20233 min read


Why We Stop Reading | Writing Technique | Editing
Discover why the two thirds point in a novel is a critical pinch point in the structure of a novel - this is where readers stop reading...

Kim Pink
Jan 15, 20232 min read


The Invisible Line Between the Historical Fiction Genre and Classic Literature
Define the difference between the Historical Fiction genre and classic literature.

Kim Pink
Jan 7, 20231 min read


Live Book Club Chat: Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter
Join us for a live book club chat about Lizzie Pook's Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter.

Kim Pink
Sep 29, 20221 min read


Vote for Our Next Book Club Reads
It's time to review the shortlist and vote for your top three books! The three books that get the most votes will become the focus of our...

Kim Pink
Sep 10, 20223 min read


My Top 5 Historical Social Media Groups and Accounts
Check out my five top social media groups and accounts with entertaining historical content. Wonderful for historical fiction research.

Kim Pink
Sep 2, 20222 min read


The White Feather Movement
Source: Arnold Bennett, Collier’s Weekly 1914 An innocent and fragile object, the white feather came to symbolise a time when Australia...

Kim Pink
Mar 20, 20224 min read


BOOK CLUB: New Shortlist of Books For Your Vote
The Historical Fiction Heart Book Club will begin reading The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid in just under two...

Kim Pink
Mar 14, 20225 min read


BOOK REVIEW: Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Kick-Arse, Flawed Heroines in a Hard Rock World. What's not to like? LA-based author Taylor Jenkins Reid has created a time machine into...

Kim Pink
Dec 13, 20212 min read


Book Club Reads Announced - First Quarter 2022
It's official, the Book Clubbers have voted! In the first three months of 2022, we'll be reading these three amazing historical fiction...

Kim Pink
Dec 13, 20211 min read


Book Club Short List - First Quarter 2022 - Historical Fiction Books
One of our Historical Fiction Heart Book Club members had a wonderful idea! If I release the shortlist for the first quarter of 2022 now,...

Kim Pink
Nov 27, 20215 min read


2022 Book Club Dates
Love historical fiction? Join the Historical Fiction Heart Book Club in 2022 and read a new historical fiction book every month.

Kim Pink
Nov 27, 20211 min read


BOOK REVIEW: Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
Book review of historical fiction novel Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

Kim Pink
Oct 27, 20212 min read


Hocus Pocus - Top 5 Horror Historical Fiction Reads
Horror historical fiction book

Kim Pink
Oct 6, 20215 min read
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