Brita Addams
Writing Historical Fiction
Happy New Year everyone. I'm pleased that Babs
asked me to kick off 2018 for the magazine. Thank you,
dear Queenie. Y'all must ask her where she got that
name. :)
For the readers who don't know me, I'm Brita Addams,
a writer of historical fiction and historical romance. I live
with my real life hero, my husband, in the heart of
Cajun Country, where Mother Nature tends to forget
when to change the temperature.
I'm not a native, having been born and raised in New York, but I lived in New
Orleans for many years before moving to the Frog Capital of the World, Rayne,
Louisiana, almost ten years ago.
My writing career started after we raised our children, and I haven't turned
back. I love history so writing historicals is a natural for me. I love the research!
I'm an avid reader, but rarely venture into anything written about events later
than World War II.
I love historical romance and have nine published, in both gay romance and
het. I cut my writing teeth on romance, reading Mary Balogh and Lisa Kleypas,
among others, until I braved the keyboard with a story of my own.
Two of my books, both Regency romance, reflect my love of history. Demands
of the Heart is a story of love and loss, growth and rediscovery. Haven't we all
suffered great loss at the hands of our need of love? Victoria is the daughter of
a profligate gambler, whose concern is more for himself than for the happiness
of his oldest child. His demands steer her toward unspeakable misery and
away from the one thing she needs--the demand of her heart.