I've been a history geek since my parents took me to a museum at the age of 5. Living in Europe with history all over the place (I live in a town with a pretty intact Medieavel centre and no less than six castles within a 30 minutes drive range) has added to it. Thus, when I started writing at the age of 40, historical fiction was the natural choice.

Though we better don't talk about that first novel I wrote in 2001-03. *grin*

And recently, I had to kick an epic Fantasy plotbunny. Hard. I don't need any more projects right now. ;)