10 Tips for Writing Accurate and Engaging Historical Fiction

One of the trickiest parts of writing historical fiction is balancing between maintaining historical accuracy and writing a compelling story. In this session, Susan Meissner will guide writers through how to do both with 10 top tips developed while writing more than two dozen critically-acclaimed and bestselling novels.

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Susan Meissner is a USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction with more than three-quarters of a million books in readers' hands and translations in nineteen languages. She is an author, speaker and writing workshop leader with a background in community journalism. Her novels include Only the Beautiful and The Nature of Fragile Things, both of which earned a starred review in Publishers Weekly; The Last Year of the War, named to Real Simple magazine’s list of best books for 2019; As Bright as Heaven (starred review in Library Journal); Secrets of Charmed Life (Goodreads finalist for Best Historical Fiction 2015); and A Fall of Marigolds, named to Booklist’s Top Ten Women’s Fiction titles for 2014. She attended Point Loma Nazarene University in California and makes her home with her husband and yellow Lab in the Pacific Northwest.