Kathryn Page Camp

  As I mentioned last week, I’ve been working on a story that takes place at the Grand Canyon. At one point, my protagonist visits the Tusay...

  In 2014, I dragged Roland along on a trip to Utah and California to do research for my first middle-grade book, Desert Jewels . Since Rola...

  The final reason I take photographs is to document my site research. Although you may not take photographs for that reason, I’m egotistica...

  This week’s blog post is a reprint from June 20, 2016. It is another one I wrote while working on   Inferno. Getting History Right You...

  This week’s blog post was originally published on August 15, 2016, when I was writing Inferno. Sifting Through the Rubble The Great Ch...

  This week’s blog post was originally published on August 6, 2018, when I was researching as as yet unpublished novel about the Siege of Vi...

  On Saturday I gave a talk at the Hammond Historical Society, which I titled “Living in the Past: The Art of Researching Historical Fiction...

  In 1917, President Wilson declared war against Germany on Good Friday. That’s fine, I guess, except it caused me extra work to get history...

  I am preparing to write a middle-grade historical novel about a German-Lutheran girl living in America during World War I. Germany was the...

   All historical fiction travels back in time, but matching the story to an exact time can be tricky. The overland routes to the California...

  As I’ve mentioned before, diaries, journals, and other personal experience accounts are my favorite research materials. I’ve found a numbe...

  The characters in my current work-in-progress have to wait in New York City for several days before boarding a ship for Panama and the Cal...

  Last week I wrote about using memoirs and other personal accounts to research a historical novel. This week I’ll cover the benefits of usi...

  I enjoy reading historical fiction, but only if it is an accurate portrayal of the times and events. So when I write my own historical nov...

  This week I am reprinting a post I published on the Indiana Writers’ Consortium blog on February 5, 2014. I am using it as a lead-in to se...

  The courtroom scene from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is pure farce, and nobody would believe it. So why do television viewers believe...

  Last week I explained why I chose a Japanese-American protagonist for my first middle-grade historical novel. But that protagonist was hal...

  I’m about as WASP as you can get, but the protagonist of my first middle-grade book, Desert Jewels , is not. Here’s the blurb. Twelve-ye...