{"id":17655,"date":"2022-09-16T13:20:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T11:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=215951"},"modified":"2022-09-16T20:44:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T18:44:08","slug":"dan-jones-on-writing-historical-fiction","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/dan-jones-on-writing-historical-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Jones on writing historical fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Dan Jones\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 16 September 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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After making his name as a medieval historian, Dan Jones has turned his hand to historical fiction<\/a>. His debut novel, Essex Dogs, follows ten hardened mercenaries through the 1346 Crecy campaign<\/a>. In this episode, Dan speaks to Rhiannon Davies about the secrets of writing great battle scenes, the challenges of relying on medieval sources, and how a dinner with Game of Thrones<\/em><\/a> author George RR Martin inspired him to pick up the pen.<\/p>\n\nhttps:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/09\/HistoryExtra20220916-ddf5524.mp3<\/a><\/audio>

Dan Jones is the author of Essex Dogs<\/em> (Head of Zeus, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n