candace robb
walking the Mean Streets of Medieval York
Owen Archer series
Publishers Weekly has given Owen Archer 14, A Fox in the Fold a starred review! In Robb’s excellent 14th Owen Archer mystery featuring Capt. Owen Archer (after 2021’s The Riverwoman’s Dragon), Archer, an experienced soldier and a devoted family man, seeks to keep order…
Kate Clifford series
Expertly recreating the social and political upheavals of late medieval Europe and the increasing power of the wealthy merchant class, acclaimed author Candace Robb introduces a new series starring Kate Clifford, a woman forged on the warring northern marches of fourteenth century England. Political…
About
Short version: I’m Candace Robb, a writer/historian engaged in creating fiction about the late middle ages with a large cast of characters with whom I enjoy spending my days. Two series, the Owen Archer mysteries and the Kate Clifford mysteries, are set in late…
Shop Talk: Patience and Trust vs Outline
Once upon a time, at the very beginning of my writing career, I would spend several months outlining a book before I began to write, and then revise the outline as I moved along. The revisions were not simply a matter of ensuring that…
About Time (Literally)
My refrigerator started dying a few weeks ago. Once we realized what had gone wrong we wondered about how a fairly new one had gone wrong so quickly. Or did it just feel newish compared with the longevity of the former fridge-I-detested, which had…
In Conversation with…Myself
From time to time I dive back into the earlier Owen Archer novels to check what I’d written about a character who is showing up again in the latest book. As I did this on the weekend, and felt I was in conversation with…
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