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Barbara Lazar

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Historical Fiction

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I am an award-winning author who has studied Japanese (Heian) history and culture for over a decade. My office is packed with Japanese history books and articles and as many irises as I can find. I study sumie (Japanese brush) painting and plan to illustrate some of my children’s books. With a strong background in English Literature, I currently write and teach in San Antonio, Texas.

My current book is Pillow Book of the Flower Samurai (translated into Italian and Hungarian).
I am currently working on the sequel.

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Historical Fiction

#1 In Historical Fiction—ACCURACY!
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Posted on October 15, 2013 by Barbara Lazar
ancient traditional lacquered pillow
There are four characteristics I value in historical fiction.

I’ll be talking about each one in the next few posts.

1. Most important for me is ACCURACY.

I truly like the facts to be correct.

For example, I noticed that Harlequin Romances was advertising for historical romance. Great. I Read more of this blog post »

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