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Pete Langham

The Silence of the Archives – A guest post by Pete Langman

February 24, 2020

Our former client Pete Langman, author of Killing Beauties, met his publisher John Mitchinson of Unbound at our Writing Coach ‘Google Academy’ event Here he writes about how we transform archival material when writing historical fiction. If it takes an historian to rediscover an exciting but little-known character’s life, the historical novelist can imagine them …

Read moreThe Silence of the Archives – A guest post by Pete Langman
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