Alternate history, whether fiction or analysis, is a large and growing genre that many people are keen to get into writing. In ‘Thinking About Writing Alternate History?’, Alexander Rooksmoor helps those considering writing ‘what if?’ history to get to the kind of book or short story they want to write. He does this not through giving strict rules, but instead, working through a range of aspects, getting the aspiring author to question what they want to do and how they want to go about it. Drawing on decades of reading and watching alternate history books, stories, movies and television series, Rooksmoor is able to point readers to a wide range of examples to help them see the kind of story or analysis they want to write and have the confidence to write it. He also explores the challenges to alternate history writing in the contemporary world, especially in the online environment and in an age when alternate history is being used to make contemporary political points. For anyone thinking of writing alternate history or simply interested in the genre, this book is an engaging read guaranteed to get you thinking about history and how different it might have been. Alexander Rooksmoor has been writing alternate history analysis and fiction for over twenty years, based on a career researching and teaching history.