S1 E5—Reform and Representation in Historical Romance with Katherine Grant

I had an amazing conversation this week with Indie Historical Romance author Katherine Grant. Katherine recently finished her long running series, The Prestons, about the Preston family and their unconventional (an inspirational!) estate, Northfield Hall. We discuss writing about social issues and working for change in Historical Romance, her use of the Peterloo Massacre for her novella, In The Wide Open Light (part of the Suffragette Uprising multi-author series), how authors can write modern (or are they really all that modern?) sensibilities into their novels, and why intersectional representation is so important in the worlds we create.

You can find out more about Katherine and all her books on Katherine’s website

Learn more about, and listen to, Katherine’s podcast, The Historical Romance Sampler, here

You can find all the books in the Suffragette Uprising series here

Katherine uses a model for writing diverse characters from the Writing the Other website

Happy listening (and reading)!