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Coming Soon: Crafting Stories From the Past

February 1, 2025

It has truly been a minute since I updated this part of my website. Oops. (If you’d prefer to hear from me every other month, make sure to subscribe to my newsletter.)

The second half of 2024 was a major change for me. After 13 years as a web and graphic designer at a small creative agency, I took on the role of Digital Marketing Officer for the largest visual arts centre in the province. I went from working with two co-workers and from home to working in an office with seven departments and being very, very busy. But it’s been an incredible experience and I love my job—I get to make my living by promoting theatre, an art gallery, live music and comedy, Canadian heritage programming, and arts education.

The fast pace of the job is causing me to slow down with writing and publishing. I also had to retire from the Paper Lantern Writers as well (although I remain an Emerita Member). However, before I began my new job and life got wild, I signed on to co-edit and write a few chapters for a PLW publication that I’m happy to announce is now available for pre-order!

Coming May 1, 2025

Pre-Order: Amazon | Elsewhere

Are you fascinated by writing in the past? Does your story demand a historical setting? Do you wonder how to bring antiquity to life? To meet the weighty challenge of writing historical fiction and enliven your plot, characters, setting, and story, pick up Crafting Stories from the Past from the Paper Lantern Writers. No matter how, when, or where in the historical world your imagination takes you, this guide can help.

Paper Lantern Writers, an award-winning international collective of historical fiction novelists, developed and curated this compendium of insightful how-to articles from genre experts, twenty-four chapters of hard-earned wisdom from working authors. From deciding when and what to research to building a historical world, we bring you practical advice, authorial insights, and helpful guidance to make your writing process easier, start to finish. Big picture to small detail, working your process or retooling your manuscript, we give you a multitude of ways to make your story shine.

These incisive how-tos are followed by many research and writing resources—some general, some specific—culled from the authors’ own shelves: the places these professionals go to research and write their own books. Whether you are just starting your path into the past or are a seasoned multi-book author, we have tips, tricks, ideas, and resources you can use at every stage of your writing journey.

Ta-da! I’m so proud of this project and I’m happy it’s (almost) out in the world. We’ve all worked very hard and we hope it will be useful for new and experienced historical fiction authors alike.

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Jillianne Hamilton writes delightful historical fiction and historical romance featuring rebellious heroines and happy endings.

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