A market for it, like if the story has a love-story as a subplot and stuff like that?
Thanks for your time
2007-10-31 16:10:45 · 10 answers · asked by Marc Hector 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Historic fiction is any sub-genre of fiction set in the past. There is a HUGE market for Historical Romance Novels.
2007-10-31 16:18:33 · answer #1 · answered by Sean G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The movie script "Titanic" is historic fiction. Fictional characters as the main characters - may interact in a fictional way with actual historical figures and the story generally takes place during a time of historical significance. Other examples: Cold Mountain, GWTW, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Great Escape, Pearl Harbor (the movie).
Big market if it's well researched, and well written with a twist that hasn't been done before.
Good Luck.
2007-10-31 16:18:17 · answer #2 · answered by Patti R 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
James Michener was one of the most prolific historic fiction writers--he wrote novels such as South Pacific, Hawaii, Centennial, Texas, Alaska and Caribbean. He did extensive research and most of the historical facts are accurate--he just invented characters and the main plot.
Leon Uris is another author who has been a master at historic fiction. My favorite is Exodus, which follows the Jews to the Holy Land at the end of World War II, and uses the founding of Israel as the backdrop. Armageddon is a novel about the Berlin Airlift (post WWII) that saved the citizens of West Berlin when the Soviet and East German governments tried to starve them out.
2007-10-31 17:28:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anna P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say there is a large market out there for historic fiction and that it has a good audience. In some ways you can attract people from several different genres, fantasy, mainstream fiction, romance, speculative fiction, etc.
2007-10-31 19:37:29 · answer #4 · answered by zymbar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there seems to be quite of it appearing in book stores. Basically it's a fictional account of something that truly took place. Gone with the Wind could be considered historical fiction, based in the civil war, but I doubt scarlett was a real person. Basically the setting location/times are real but not necessarily the story...
2007-10-31 16:19:45 · answer #5 · answered by wanderlust2480 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's like the Da Vinci Code. Lots of research on a historical subject and then take a group of facts as an outline to build a story around.
2007-10-31 16:21:55 · answer #6 · answered by Ray T 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course there's a huge market for it. Lots of writers only write historical fiction. Just remember that fiction always trumps history when writing or reading it, though.
2007-10-31 18:11:36 · answer #7 · answered by i8pikachu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love reading Civil War fiction, like Cold Mountain and The Killer Angels. Fortunately, there seems to be a big market for it.
2007-10-31 16:21:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-26 05:52:27 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you make up the story, but the background is historically accurate. there is always a market for a good story.
2007-10-31 16:19:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋