How I Found My Niche as an Author

A Transmission from the Hodderverse

Although it doesn’t apply to all of my writing, the “gimmick” for which I am best known is that I take true events from history and weave eccentric plots around them. American author Tim Powers does the same, and I share his rule:

“I could not change or disregard any of the recorded facts, nor rearrange any days of the calendar—and then I tried to figure…