I never imagined I would write a novel-much less three-based on the lives of the people I encountered in these books. For five years, I read about history because I enjoyed it. When asked how I researched Brazen specifically, I start with that foundation. I joke that I know more about Henry VIII’s family tree than I do about my own (but sadly, it’s probably true). I just hope I make it to the Civil Wars (English, of course) before I die. I still haven’t exhausted all of those possibilities. I devoured every Richard and Wars of the Roses book I could get my hands on and then moved onto the Tudors. Once I got started reading history, I couldn’t stop. And I wondered if the real Richard could possibly have been that bad.Īnd so I fell down the rabbit hole. He played Richard as a sympathetic sociopath-or at least such a delightful sociopath that I fell in love with him. I started reading about British history after seeing Ian McKellen in the film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard III. When people ask how much time I spend researching my novels, I usually tell them five years (though now, I suppose, it’s been more like nine). Katherine shares with us how she goes about researching her books, and specifically her latest novel Brazen. Today, I am honoured for The Anne Boleyn Files to be a stop on author Katherine Longshore’s blog tour.
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