I’m pleased to feature yet another wonderful 2021 debut author, Gabriella Saab, and her historical novel launching on October 19th from William Morrow—THE LAST CHECKMATE—a WWII story about a young Polish woman who joins the underground Resistance in Nazi-occupied Warsaw.

Fear gets in the way of a lot of things when we become writers, and the fear of trying something new is one of them. All writing requires research. Historical fiction is not harder than any other genre, it just requires a passion for learning and a story that interests you.