![]() I find a period of history and historical characters that resonate with me. ![]() ![]() Making history come alive means writing novels that create a rich and convincing fictional world which gives the reader the experience of the past. Making History Come to Life in Historical Fiction Empress of the Night, her second Catherine novel, has been on bestseller lists in Canada, Germany and Poland. Eva lives in Toronto.Įva gave the March guest talk at Brockton Writers Series, “Making History Come to Life in Your Fiction”, and below, in the first of a new series, she follows up with 10 tips to remember. Eva’s debut novel, Necessary Lies, won the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award in 2000, and The Winter Palace, her first novel of Catherine the Great, is an international bestseller that was included in the 2012 Washington Post list of most notable fiction and The Globe and Mail‘s Best Books of the Year. She has since worked for Radio-Canada International (Montreal) and taught English and humanities at Sheridan College (Oakville). Eva Stachniak was born and raised in Wrocław, Poland, and moved to Canada in 1981 to pursue her post-graduate degree in English at McGill. ![]()
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