I m launching my website where I began as a writer, in Medieval Italy, the setting for my novel,
The Slave. These essays were written for a promotional blog tour and each of them looks at the historical background of an aspect of the novel.
My two novels are both historical fiction and one aspect of writing historical fiction that I love is doing the research. You just have no idea what youâll turn up. However, to be honest, I didnât really do much research before I started writing this novel because it came directly out of my university studies â albeit 30-odd years later!