Look and Listen

Biography

Claire Ridgway is the author of the best-selling books The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown and The Anne Boleyn Collection, as well as the newly released Interviews with Indie Authors: Top Tips from Successful Self-Published Authors. Claire worked in education and freelance writing before creating The Anne Boleyn Files history website and becoming a full-time history researcher, blogger and author. The Anne Boleyn Files is known for its historical accuracy and Claire's mission to get to the truth behind Anne Boleyn's story. Her writing is easy-to-read and conversational, and readers often comment on how reading Claire's books is like having a coffee with her and chatting about history. Claire is a best-selling indie author and loves connecting with Tudor history fans, and helping authors and aspiring authors.

Inspiration

My Tudor history writing was inspired by the work of historians Eric Ives, John Guy and Leanda de Lisle. I was inspired to self-publish and to help others do it successfully by the work of CJ Lyons, Aaron Patterson, Scott Nicholson and Catherine Ryan Howard.