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SPINNING FACTS INTO FICTION WRITING THE HISTORICAL NOVEL

When:
Friday, November 2, 2018, 3:00 PM until 4:00 PM
Where:
Ashby Village Office
1821 Catalina Ave.
Berkeley, CA  94707

510-204-9200
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SPINNING FACTS INTO FICTION:

WRITING THE HISTORICAL NOVEL


RSVP : Call the office (510)204-9200 or send an email to info@ashbyvillage.org

WHEN: Friday November 2, at 3:00-4:00 pm

WHERE: Ashby Village Office
               1821 Catalina Ave,
               Berkeley, CA 94707 

PARKING: neighborhood street parking might be limited!
Please call us if you need a ride at least one week before the event

Open to all.

What is the process by which a historical novelist shapes fact into fiction, and where does the writer draw the line between truth and story? Patricia Bracewell discusses the historical characters and events behind her novels Shadow on the Crown and The Price of Blood, and explains how history must inform the fiction even as the writer makes creative choices in order to serve the demands of drama.

Patricia Bracewell's debut historical novel, Shadow on the Crown, was published in 2013 in the U.S. and Britain, and has been translated into Italian, German, Portuguese and Russian. Its sequel, The Price of Blood, continues the gripping tale of the 11th century queen of England, Emma of Normandy, during a time when England was under near-constant siege by Viking armies. Her research has taken her to France, Denmark and Britain, including a summer course on Anglo-Saxon history at Downing College, Cambridge, as well as academic conferences on medieval studies in the U.S. and the U.K. Patricia has served as Writer-in-Residence at Gladstone’s Library in Wales, has been a panelist at Historical Novel Society conferences in the U.S. and Britain, and has spoken to numerous book groups and school groups about her novels and the history that infuses them. She is currently working on the third and final book of her trilogy about Emma of Normandy, the twice-crowned queen of England.




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