My forthcoming novel All Of Us Murderers is a Gothic novel. What sort of Gothic? You may well ask, because the Gothic novel has come in several distinct waves over the years. Here follows a quick and dirty overview of some aspects of the evolution of the Gothic, the examples all being novels from which I drew my inspiration. Read this lot and either you will have a 101 grounding in the history and development of the primarily British Gothic up to 1980, or you’ll find yourself in a low-cut n...| kjcharleswriter.com
My forthcoming novel All Of Us Murderers is a Gothic novel. What sort of Gothic? You may well ask, because the Gothic novel has come in several distinct waves over the years. Here follows a quick and dirty overview of some aspects of the evolution of the Gothic, the examples all being novels from which I drew my inspiration. Read this lot and either you will have a 101 grounding in the history and development of the primarily British Gothic up to 1980, or you’ll find yourself in a low-cut n...| KJ Charles
I have just read a review of a British-set histrom. The hero is a duke, but he has a problem: the conditions of the title stipulate that if he isn’t married by the age of thirty, he will be stripped of the dukedom and it will pass to the next heir. Great romance set-up, right?| KJ Charles
So I have been reading a particularly egregious historical romance. As histrom readers will know, some books are deeply researched, profoundly infused by their settings, and cleverly structured so that the plots spring naturally from the realities of the time. And others…aren’t.| kjcharleswriter.com
So I have been reading a particularly egregious historical romance. As histrom readers will know, some books are deeply researched, profoundly infused by their settings, and cleverly structured so that the plots spring naturally from the realities of the time. And others…aren’t.| KJ Charles
Back in the day, before I became a responsible washing-machine-fixing parent type, I travelled round Egypt with a boyfriend. This meant many interminable, uncomfortable bus journeys. On one of them, we were sat next to a pair of American backpackers. My boyfriend and the male backpacker talked across the aisle, while the girlfriends in the window seats read books.| KJ Charles
In a new low for literacy, the Chicago Sun-Times decided to print a Chat-GPT generated article recommending for ‘Summer Reading’ a whole bunch of books that literally don’t exist. Oh, and also Atonement because Ian McEwan is always a great beach read. I don’t need to rehearse everything wrong with a newspaper uncritically putting out […]| KJ Charles
