(Disclaimer: This article is intended for ordinary mortals like myself who love writing and need to make a living from it, but aren’t perhaps literary geniuses. If you are a literary genius, or of independent means, it may not be for you.) I knew I had to do it. I’d self-published seven books, had my eighth accepted by a publisher, and been commissioned to write another by a second publisher. So I quit writing. (Research and Storytelling for Successful Historical Fiction) After years of writing nonfiction, I could no longer deny that my heart lay in writing fiction. Which meant […]