Episode 246: Historical #Fiction the Only Way I Know How with Beverly Jenkins

Beverly Jenkins is best-selling, award-winning, and still having fun with all she does&#8212;in other words, all the things we writers aspire to when we sit down at the desk. But when she first got started, she &#8220;didn&#8217;t have a clue&#8221;&#8212;and that might have freed her to do exactly what she wanted to do. <br/><br/>We talk keeping history accurate but still making it entertaining, the joy of placing characters in a particular moment in time, bookshelf placement (&#8220;African American Literature&#8221;? &#8220;Men&#8217;s Health&#8221;?) and the pleasures of changing up your process for every new book.<br/><br/>Am Reading <br/><br/>Beverly: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781250207234">Shadows in Death</a> by J.D. Robb<br/><br/><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780593199305">Battle Ground</a> by Jim Butcher<br/><br/><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781534437685">Black Sun</a> by Rebecca Roanhorse<br/><br/><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781641971652">The Blood Heir</a> by Ilona Andrews &#8220;If I could only have one author for the whole rest of my life it would be Ilona Andrews.&#8221;<br/><br/>Sarina: <br/><br/><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780063036345">My Last Duchess</a> by Eloisa James<br/><br/><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780425259856">Dark Witch</a> by Nora Roberts<br/><br/>KJ: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780062873040">Wandering in Strange Lands</a> by Morgan Jerkins<br/><br/><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780062861719">Wild Rain</a> by Beverly Jenkins<br/><br/>Beverly thought KJ definitely needed to watch the <a href="http://www.lovebetweenthecovers.com/">Love Between the Cover</a> documentary<br/><br/>KJ&#8217;s Brain Fart: While J.D. Robb is and always will be the great Nora Roberts, I have been enjoying the <a href="https://writersinkpodcast.com/">Writers, Ink</a> podcast with J. Thorn and J.D. Barker lately. Barker writes thrillers, most recently with James Patterson.<br/><br/>Our guest today LOVES TWITTER. Find her there in &#82