#1930s historical fiction

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After a year of writing I'm very excited to announce that the production of Midnight Wink officially starts August 1st! If you'd like to see my awesome stick figure sketches and pages as they're made check out my Patreon https://www.patreon.com/MidnightWink Don't fret if it's not within your means though! Midnight Wink will be free to read right here on Tumblr and released in huge honking chunks as each chapter is completed :)

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Vintage Pulp - Saucy Romantic Adventures (June1936)

Art by Norman Saunders

Fiction Magazines

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If YOU!! Yes you!! If you love mystery games (like prof. Layton), Sherlock, Titanic, Welcome Home, literally anything from the 1860s-1930s, you are going to LOVE (or at least like) this little web-based story I’m working on!!

It’s called Dear Clarent, and it’s a silly mystery investigating a shipwreck from 1914. Yes, it is very much interactive!! There are lots of password/cipher protected links, documents, audio, etc :)

Also, all of the artwork on the site is made by me (so far), so supporting the site means supporting an emerging artist!

We have a funny mascot too if you love silly little guys btw <3

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Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person—no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s. Janie's quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a journey back to her roots.

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I don't usually post OC art on here but, oh well. For those new here, this is my OC Atticus Altair, a dapper owl man. He's a previous silent film actor during the 1920s and 1930s who managed to transition to talkies! He can also shapeshift into an owl.

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Historical fiction writers of Tumblr: if you could choose one modern thing to send back in time to gift to each of your characters, what would it be?

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they are girlfriends :]

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I'm still buzzing from The Shabti's time among Amazon's top 100 Paranormal Fantasy books (and top 50 in the Kindle Store!) over the past couple of days! :D Thanks so much to everyone who bought the book and/or spread the word about it. It means the world to me!

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PLEASE GO LOOK AT MY PRETTY NEW COVER AND THEN HELP ME PTERODACTYL SCREAM AT THE WORLD ABOUT IT

THANK YOU

[redbreastedbird]

Hi Robin! I was wondering, and you may have answered this before but, how or why did you decide to set your books in the 1930s/40s?

p.s. I love your books. :D

Hello! Thank you!

I initially chose the 1930s because it’s when a lot of my favourite authors (Christie, Sayers) were working, and when cozy crime was super popular - it gets called the Golden Age of crime fiction because there was such a boom in people writing and reading it. I grew up loving those books and wanting to write something like them - so I chose the same time period because of that!

I also think that historical fiction is a great genre to write in if you want to critique modern life. You get to say things about the period that are also true about the time you’re writing in - you can be subtle and really obvious at the same time! People don’t change at all, no matter what anyone might tell you - we’re no better and no worse than we were in the 1930s, we just have slightly different norms and customs.

And finally, I think history feels so much more like fantasy to readers now - so I can get away with more peril and terrible crimes! There’s no way I could have sold a book about two kids solving a crime in the 2010s, but because I wrote it about the 1930s, adults had a much calmer reaction to it. Historical murder is cute in a way modern murder isn’t, apparently …

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Synopsis:

The year: 1934. After her little sister Sophie blows up their house with her psychic abilities, twelve-year-old Emilia Anning must leave behind everything sane and sensible in favor of the unknown: namely, their uncle, Horatio "Heron" Fenchurch, and his massive, crumbling estate in the north of England. Uncle Heron is Sophie's only hope to harness her abilities, and Emilia's not about to leave her sister's side. But something is rotten in the house of Fenchurch, and the more Emilia untangles its secrets- and her uncle's- the deeper she's caught in their coils.

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Part 1 of an original historical fantasy/cosmic horror trilogy.

(clanging pots and pans together) NEW ORIGINAL FICTION GET IT FRESH N HOT

This has been on my laptop for like a year and I thought well i should probably post this or something. I've been referring to it as the "Weird Uncle Story". It contains yet another duo consisting of an eccentric father figure and a plucky young daughter-shaped person. Fuck it up yall.

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Finally all the Berliners (and Angel lol) are together! Tabakkatze (top left), Gretel Hansel and La Louisiane (top right), and of course Angel and Irma Von Berber 💅🏻🍾💃🏻

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Vintage Pulp - Saucy Romantic Adventures (Oct1936)

Art by Norman Saunders

Fiction Magazines

[noahhawthorneauthor]

Want to get a head start on my next book?

The Voice of Wild Places is a queer historical fiction with fabulism elements, following two ex childhood best friends as they search the depths of Brazil for the infamous and lost Percy Fawcett.

Its set in 1930, and as such has themes of homophobia, transphobia, and racism.

I'm uploading a chapter a week to my Patreon, but if you'd prefer to wait and read the whole thing at once it releases on May 6th, 2025. I'll be doing an early access campaign with hopes of an audiobook for a stretch goal, but we shall see.

Watt art by @justmissart , Cornelius art by @c-leadraw

Cornelius Sawyer is a man of many talents, but forgiveness is not one of them.

Watt Johnson is a man of his word, but not once in his life has he spoken up for himself.

Once connected by the bonds of childhood, threads now severed by the demands of life, the pair are brought together for a once in a lifetime opportunity: an all expenses paid expedition to Brazil, searching for a man the world believes to be long dead, Percy Fawcett. And perhaps, even the Lost City that he was looking for.

Under the guise of doing research work for their respective universities, a reluctant Cornelius and an exhilarated Watt accept the offer and delve into the unknown, trusting no one but themselves. Looking at a map, the route and its dangers seem to be known obstacles which can be easily conquered, a fact that Watt leans on heavily.

But Cornelius is intimately aware that the river has teeth, that the land renders a siren song to those who are desperate to become lost in its mountains and basins. To survive the journey they’ll have to face the enemies within, and trust the other to have their best interests in mind.

After all, the Voice of Wild Places is calling, beckoning the adrift homeward.

Watt and Cornelius art by Benedetta Massaro.

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They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. But George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. While the powerlessness of the laboring class is a recurring theme in Steinbeck's work of the late 1930s, he narrowed his focus when composing Of Mice and Men, creating an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. But though the scope is narrow, the theme is universal: a friendship and a shared dream that makes an individual's existence meaningful. A unique perspective on life's hardships, this story has achieved the status of timeless classic due to its remarkable success as a novel, a Broadway play, and three acclaimed films.

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My artwork of Atticus got a surprising amount of attention for an OC piece, so I decided I would post his reference sheet here too!

Atticus my beloved.......