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The Crown and Candle Studio Guide is Here — and It's Free to new Viewers
The Candle & Crown
Field Guide
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Historical Fiction, Alternate Timelines & Low Fantasy
For writers who craft these worlds.
For readers who live inside them.
A welcome gift from Candle & Crown Studio
A Letter Before We Begin
There is a particular kind of reader — and a particular kind of writer — who finds their way to historical fiction and low fantasy not by accident, but by longing.
They want the weight of real centuries. The texture of candlelight on stone. The smell of ink and beeswax and something older than either. They want worlds where the past is not a backdrop but a living, breathing thing that presses against the story from every direction.
If that is you, you have found your people.
Candle & Crown Studio exists for the writers who are crafting these worlds — Plantagenet courts, Tudor intrigues, Wars of the Roses, and the secondary worlds that borrow their bones from history — and for the readers who would live inside them given half a chance.
This field guide is your first look at how we think about this work. Part craft, part world immersion, part love letter to the genres we cannot stop writing and reading.
It is not meant to be read in one sitting. Keep it nearby. Come back to it when a scene is giving you trouble, or when you need to remember why you fell in love with this particular corner of fiction in the first place.
Welcome to the studio. The candle is lit. Complete copy to follow when you sign up in the Studio
— Christie
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The Crown and Candle Studio Guide is Here — and It's Free to new Viewers
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