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Book Club Questions: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Kim Pink

Jan 262 min read

Book Club Questions: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Lessons in Chemistry

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Book Club Questions: The Sin Eater by Megan Campisi

Kim Pink

Nov 11, 20232 min read

Book Club Questions: The Sin Eater by Megan Campisi

Use this series of questions when your book club reads The Sin Eater by Megan Campisi.

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Writing a Novel: the Importance of Naming Characters

Kim Pink

Sep 16, 20234 min read

Writing a Novel: the Importance of Naming Characters

How to name characters in your novel is a skill I learned through failure. Here are four top tips and resources to help you name characters.

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Book Club Questions: Homecoming by Kate Morton

Kim Pink

Jul 2, 20232 min read

Book Club Questions: Homecoming by Kate Morton

Use these book club questions to help your book lovers discuss Homecoming by Kate Morton.

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The Curse of Filtering | Writing Technique | Editing A Novel

Kim Pink

May 22, 20233 min read

The Curse of Filtering | Writing Technique | Editing A Novel

Understand how to identify filtering in your novel and delete it for a faster, crisper manuscript. Editing a novel.

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Why We Stop Reading | Writing Technique | Editing

Kim Pink

Jan 15, 20232 min read

Why We Stop Reading | Writing Technique | Editing

Discover why the two thirds point in a novel is a critical pinch point in the structure of a novel - this is where readers stop reading...

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The Invisible Line Between the Historical Fiction Genre and Classic Literature

Kim Pink

Jan 7, 20231 min read

The Invisible Line Between the Historical Fiction Genre and Classic Literature

Define the difference between the Historical Fiction genre and classic literature.

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Live Book Club Chat: Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter

Kim Pink

Sep 29, 20221 min read

Live Book Club Chat: Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter

Join us for a live book club chat about Lizzie Pook's Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter.

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Kim Pink

Sep 10, 20223 min read

Vote for Our Next Book Club Reads

It's time to review the shortlist and vote for your top three books! The three books that get the most votes will become the focus of our...

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My Top 5 Historical Social Media Groups and Accounts

Kim Pink

Sep 2, 20222 min read

My Top 5 Historical Social Media Groups and Accounts

Check out my five top social media groups and accounts with entertaining historical content. Wonderful for historical fiction research.

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Kim Pink

Mar 20, 20224 min read

The White Feather Movement

Source: Arnold Bennett, Collier’s Weekly 1914 An innocent and fragile object, the white feather came to symbolise a time when Australia...

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BOOK CLUB: New Shortlist of Books For Your Vote

Kim Pink

Mar 14, 20225 min read

BOOK CLUB: New Shortlist of Books For Your Vote

The Historical Fiction Heart Book Club will begin reading The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid in just under two...

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BOOK REVIEW: Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Kim Pink

Dec 13, 20212 min read

BOOK REVIEW: Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Kick-Arse, Flawed Heroines in a Hard Rock World. What's not to like? LA-based author Taylor Jenkins Reid has created a time machine into...

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Book Club Reads Announced - First Quarter 2022

Kim Pink

Dec 13, 20211 min read

Book Club Reads Announced - First Quarter 2022

It's official, the Book Clubbers have voted! In the first three months of 2022, we'll be reading these three amazing historical fiction...

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Book Club Short List - First Quarter 2022 - Historical Fiction Books

Kim Pink

Nov 27, 20215 min read

Book Club Short List - First Quarter 2022 - Historical Fiction Books

One of our Historical Fiction Heart Book Club members had a wonderful idea! If I release the shortlist for the first quarter of 2022 now,...

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Kim Pink

Nov 27, 20211 min read

2022 Book Club Dates

Love historical fiction? Join the Historical Fiction Heart Book Club in 2022 and read a new historical fiction book every month.

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BOOK REVIEW: Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

Kim Pink

Oct 27, 20212 min read

BOOK REVIEW: Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

Book review of historical fiction novel Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

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Hocus Pocus - Top 5 Horror Historical Fiction Reads

Kim Pink

Oct 6, 20215 min read

Hocus Pocus - Top 5 Horror Historical Fiction Reads

Horror historical fiction book

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Kim Pink

Aug 30, 20212 min read

BOOK REVIEW: The Last Sketch

Read my book review of The Last Sketch by Gosia Nealon. This World War II novel is set in Poland and Montauk and will make your heart race.

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Kim Pink

Aug 22, 20215 min read

NEW Book Club Short List

Join our casual historical fiction book club. Check out the shortlist of novels and cast your vote for which we should read in September.

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