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Crafting Stories from the Past: A How-To Guide for Writing Historical Fiction

Coming May 1, 2025

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.

Historical Non-Fiction

Molly Miranda: Thief for Hire

The Lazy Historian’s Guide to the Wives of Henry VIII

You can’t spell “Tudor dynasty” without getting “nasty.”

Penned by a lifelong Tudor history nerd, The Lazy Historian’s Guide to the Wives of Henry VIII combines Jillianne Hamilton’s sassy, fun and snarky storytelling with one of history’s most alluring eras.

Available in ebook, paperback and audio.

Contemporary Fiction

Molly Miranda: Thief for Hire

Molly Miranda: Thief for Hire (Book #1)

Shortlisted for the 2016 Prince Edward Island Book Award

Professional, experienced contract burglar.
It’s not exactly something you can put on a business card.

Join Molly on her hilarious adventures as she dodges bullets, trespasses, wears disguises, and steals her way into trouble.

Molly Miranda: Thick as Thieves

Molly Miranda: Thick as Thieves (Book #2)

Molly Miranda is back for more hilarious and exciting adventures in professional burglary. This time, Molly is thrown into the high-stakes world of art theft.

Will Molly and Rhys finally master the art of love?

Molly Miranda: Honor Among Thieves

Molly Miranda: Honor Among Thieves (Book #3)

Molly and her partner-in-crime are being hunted. So, there’s that.

Molly and Rhys have to depend on one another more than ever, especially when the bullets start flying.

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