Terri Green talks about the writing craft and process behind her novel An Unsuitable Pursuit. 

Terri and I discussed writing and self-publishing an historical fiction series. Terri gave lots of wonderful advice about how and where to research, how to balance action, interiority, dialogue and description, how to use chapter headings for structure and how to balance humour with serious subject matter.

Terri also has some absolute gold to share in this episode about how and when to make the decision to self-publish, along with some of the important things you need to think about before and after hitting publish.

You’ll find links to buy An Unsuitable Pursuit by Terri Green here.

RESOURCES MENTIONED BY TERRI

The data base Terri referred to is called JStor.org. It contains mostly journals which cover the humanities, particularly history and English.  You can access it through your local library or State Library. There is also a free account you can register for and read up to 100 articles every 30 days but not all articles are in the free access area.

For sword-fighting, HEMA Historical European Martial Arts. Their website shows local clubs and they are very welcoming to new members. https://www.aushistoricalfencing.com/

www.english-heritage.org.uk

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust  www.shakespeare.org.uk

The Globe Theatre - shadespearesglobe.com.

Royal Palaces Trust (for Hampton court, Buckingham Palace, Tower of London, the Banqueting House, Kensington Palace and Kew Palace).  www.hrp.org.uk  They have regular exhibits and produce a lot of useful booklets you can order.

V&A museum- great for looking at artefacts,  furniture, clothing. They have a good online resource as does the British Museum.

For writing craft, Terri recommends James Scott Bell  "Write Great Fiction-Plot & Structure" and "Write Your Novel From the Middle".

Maggie Lawson’s colour coded editing system

Atticus

Writes4Women with Pamela Cook - RWA 2024 Conference Round Up

Kindlepreneur

Northern Beaches Readers Festival

ABOUT TERRI GREEN

Terri is the author of 3 novels The Swordmaster’s Daughter, An Unsuitable Pursuit and The King’s Jewels which make up her Sisters of the Sword series. Terri has a PhD in creative writing and has won several prizes for her short stories. She loves a bit of history, mystery and romance, prefers laughter over misery and is a sucker for stories that tug at the heart. She shares her backyard with a lot of frogs and a colony of lyre birds, and her house with her husband and a dog called Mabel. When she isn’t writing you might find her sword-fighting, hula hooping or falling off a stand-up paddle board because life is too short to stay sitting down.

Website: terrigreenauthor.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/terrigreenauthor/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/terrigreenauthor

Buy The Swordmaster’s Daughter and An Unsuitable Pursuit by Terri Green here.

Buy The Rewilding by Donna M Cameron here.

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