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Curiosity + Technique = Analyzing the Prescotts by Dawn Reno Langley
Curiosity + Technique = Analyzing the Prescottsby Dawn Reno Langley Curiosity is a writer’s best friend. We write to find answers to mysterious questions or to discover why people function as they do. Every novel has a backstory, the “why” tale of the writer’s need to follow the characters they created, as well as the […]
WIDOWS OF THE ICE The women that Scott’s Antarctic Expedition left behind
WIDOWS OF THE ICE The women that Scott’s Antarctic Expedition left behind The idea for this book came while I was on holiday in Sicily. Thinking about the history of Britain that I was taught during the 1970s and 80s, I was reflecting that behind every great man and every great event there must have […]
Peak Beyond Peak: The Unpublished Scottish Journeys of Isobel Wylie Hutchison
Box of lost essays by forgotten Scottish solo Arctic explorer, poet and botanist Isobel Wylie Hutchison published in new book A collection of lost essays by one of Scotland’s most remarkable women has been published as a book by Edinburgh publisher Taproot Press. Peak Beyond Peak: The Unpublished Scottish Journeys of Isobel Wylie Hutchison is […]
Interview with Clara Falkenberg of The German Heiress by Anika Scott
About THE GERMAN HEIRESS Essen, 1946. Clara Falkenberg, once an iconic heiress, is on the run. With the city in ruins and her dear friend Elisa missing, Clara enlists the help of Jakob, a charming young racketeer with his own reasons for wanting to find Elisa. As the two join forces, it’s not long before […]
Rome: The Coming of the King by MC Scott
Today May 12, 2011 Rome: The Coming of the King by M. C. Scott was released. We asked her to be a guest blogger to learn more about her work. In a fair world, as a woman, I’d be writing the coming of the queen and it would be every bit as erotic as it sounds. […]
August: Reading With Rochelle Weinstein
Hello Readers & Friends, North Carolina is a memory, and we’re back in Miami where the days alternate between steamy sun and lots of afternoon showers. But who minds the rain when you have a great book on hand? Here’s what I read in August…all that plus edits for We Are Made of Stars! Here’s […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Michelle McGill-Vargas
AMERICAN GHOUL You can’t kill someone who’s already dead. That’s what Lavinia keeps telling her jailer after—allegedly—killing her mistress, Simone Arceaneau. But how could Simone be dead when she was taking visitors shortly before? And why was her house always so dark? Lavina, a recently freed slave, met Simone, a recently undead vampire, by chance […]
How Celtic Ancestry Freed My Writing Voice
By L.A. McMurray Three days after my father’s passing, I received a comforting message that my dad was, and always will be, with me. Surprisingly, it was delivered by a hot-headed Irishman driving a Ford Mustang in a murder mystery movie from 1968. Luck of the Irish? Indeed. To begin with, my birthdate coincides with […]
DEADLINE DILEMMA by Kathleen Whyman
Being longlisted in a competition is every author’s dream. Unless you haven’t finished the book! Kathleen Whyman describes how she wrote a third of her latest book in 10 days, and retained her sanity. ‘Congratulations! Your novel, Has Anyone Seen My Husband?, has been longlisted for the Comedy Women in Print prize in the Unpublished […]
A Tale of Two Celtic Queens: Boudica and Cartimandua
By Melanie Karsak Standing proudly in her chariot, her daughters at her side, the statue of a defiant Queen Boudica stands with a spear in her hand as she faces the Parliament buildings along the River Thames. It has been almost two thousand years since the real Boudica rolled her chariot into Roman Londinium and […]
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