Mentorship & Coaching Program
COMING SOON TO HFC!!!
Want to write your first historical novel or need help with a current one?
HFC is now offering mentorship programs with three top best-selling authors!
Rebecca Pickens
From Dream to Manuscript: Peronalized one-on-one coaching from Developmental Editor Rebecca Pickens.
I believe that words matter and that stories can change the world. I am passionately committed to supporting fiction and nonfiction writers build sustainable writing practices that enable them to write bravely, boldly, and beautifully with maximum efficiency and success.
With over fifteen years experience teaching and editing, as well as professional success writing my own fiction, I’m privileged to work with new writers, seasoned storytellers, and all the folks in between. Whether you’ve got a new idea that’s percolating, or you’re confronting writers’ block, cruising through revisions, or ready to pitch to agents, I have tools and techniques to help.
Dr. Wendy J. Dunn
Dr Wendy J Dunn is an award-winning Australian author, playwright and poet. She is the author of two Anne Boleyn novels: Dear Heart, How Like You This?, The Light in the Labyrinth (2023 HFC Silver Award winner), her first young adult novel, and two Katherine of Aragon novels, Falling Pomegranate Seeds: The Duty of Daughters and Falling Pomegranate Seeds: All Manner of Things (2022 HFC Gold winner). Her first major nonfiction work, Henry VIII’s True Daughter: Catherine Carey, a Tudor Life, was published by Pen & Sword books in 2023. They have now commissioned Wendy to write a second nonfiction work.
A respected and longtime member of the Tudor writing community, Wendy was the Founding Editor of Backstory and Other Terrain, two academic writing journals belonging to Swinburne University. She is a sessional tutor for the university’s Writing Department. Wendy still manages Other Terrain (https://www.otherterrainjournal.com.au/).
Wendy is fascinated by Tudor history – so much so she was not surprised to discover a family connection to the Tudors, not long after the publication of her first Anne Boleyn novel, which narrated the Anne Boleyn story through the eyes of Sir Thomas Wyatt, the elder. Her family tree reveals the intriguing fact that one of her ancestral families – possibly over three generations – had purchased land from both the Boleyn and Wyatt families to build up their own holdings. It seems very likely Wendy’s ancestors knew the Wyatts and Boleyns personally.
