by Karen Nyenhuis | Nov 24, 2024 | Just Knud Qvigstad, Writing Craft
After watching another online writing conference and listening to yet another literary agent panel, my publishing dream almost died. Set in an unusual time and place, my story world won’t slide into an existing group of readers. My books are probably best...
by Karen Nyenhuis | Jun 12, 2024 | Writing Craft
Two years. That’s when my first set of five books will be ready to consider publishing them. My setting is so unusual it doesn’t have a ready-made audience or specific literary genre category. Four years ago, I embarked on a study of church history in Scandinavia and...
by Karen Nyenhuis | Feb 17, 2024 | Writing Craft
The End. Book One. The structural edit on book one is finished. The working title is Autumn in Copenhagen, but it will not be published under that title. Aksel and Anneka needed ninety thousand words to tell their story. All of the words fit together now, and seven...
by Karen Nyenhuis | Jan 29, 2024 | Writing Craft
Often considered France’s first work of historical fiction, in which the author wove fictional characters into real historical events, The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette could also be called the first historical romance novel with a duke, a man aptly...
