the greatest knight by elizabeth chadwick

In 1998, Chadwick’s novel The Champion was shortlisted for the highly coveted Parker Pen Award by the Romantic Novelists Association in the Best Romantic Novel category. Chadwick says the experience was immense in the progression of her career, teaching her discipline and a new way to approach storytelling.

She was given four months to turn the film script into a novel. Then she was contracted by Columbia Pictures to turn the film First Knight (an epic movie starring the likes of Richard Gere and Sean Connery) into a novel. One of the bigger projects in the early years of Chadwick’s publishing career came in 1994. Indeed, her rise has been so meteoric that the Historical Novel Society has pronounced her the ‘The Best Writer of Medieval Fiction still alive’. Elizabeth Chadwick had joined the big league and was well on her way to global stardom. That agent was Carole Blake of Blake Friedmann and she managed to auction the work to Michael Joseph, part of the Penguin publishing group. Her big break would come when a literally agent became interested in a synopsis and the initial three chapters of her novel, “The Wild Hunt”. Chadwick insists that the multitude of rejections did not deter her from pursuing her passion. Many publishers rejected her submissions though she did win some competitions in the early eighties. She came to gain insights to the literally genre through television drama and, of course, historical books.Īs with many other authors, the early years of Elizabeth Chadwick’s career were fraught with frustration. Ms Chadwick credits her passion for historical fiction from her formative years. When she was four, her family moved to Scotland and her childhood was spent in the village of Newton Mearns just outside the city of Glasgow.

Many experts credit her runaway success to the amount of research she puts in each and every one of her works.Ĭhadwick was born in Bury, Lancashire in 1957. Her works have been published around the world and have been translated to 16 languages. With a several dozens of works in publication, a good proportion of which have been serial bestsellers in Europe and the United States, Chadwick has proved to be a real prodigy. Elizabeth Chadwick may have started her publishing career relatively late in her life but since then has risen to become perhaps the world’s most preeminent publisher of historical novels.

The greatest knight by elizabeth chadwick