A bit of the history behind the story… As a historical fiction writer, I often get asked “how I know all this stuff.” It’s true that writing in a historical setting does require a great deal of research, most of which I enjoy. It’s easy to go down the rabbit hole of research, of course, and suddenly look up and realize you’ve spent 2 hours researching how medieval people sealed a tomb, which will take up all of one line in your actual novel. So, in the interest of not letting all that research go to waste, I thought I’d…
I read. And quilt. A lot.