Write Gaslamp Fantasy the Victorians Would Believe

Who inherits when your heroine's father dies without a son? What does it cost her to leave her husband? What happens to a body found in the street at two in the morning? Your reader will not know the answers either. They will know when you have guessed. It arrives as a one-star review saying the book felt off, written by someone who cannot say why. Write Gaslamp Fantasy the Victorians Would Believe is the working manual for the century underneath the magic, from the author of 140+ craft books for working novelists. - What a married woman could own, before and after 1870, and the plots that turn on the difference- How coroners, magistrates and police actually handled a suspicious death- Which servant is in the room for the secret, and why nobody counts her as present- Dialogue that sounds Victorian without anyone saying "I dare say" twice a page- Building a magic system the Home Office would have tried to license >Build a century the Victorians would recognise. Then haunt it.