Deep Into the Third Draft
Friday, March 12th, 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments
I am deep into the third draft of TO BE QUEEN, and I am loving every minute of it. I have gotten my notes back from my editor, and as always, she has seen things I never noticed and has questions to ask that I would not have seen. I am on my way to answering them all. It is an adventure to take the scalpel back to the body of the text, to trim away that things that need trimming, and to clarify all the things that might cause confusion.
Concert at the Cloisters
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 | The Queen's Pawn, The Writing Life | No Comments
I love going to the Cloisters…a part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that houses a large part of the museum’s medieval collection. It is a journey to get there…at least half an hour by subway from the Upper West Side, but the trip is worth it. The collection is beautiful.
This Sunday I went uptown to Ft Tryon and the Cloisters not just to view the art but to hear a concert by the Boston Camerata on the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdelene. Though Eleanor is not particularly religious ( in my novels, at least) Princess Alais iv VERY religious, and particularly devoted to the Holy Mother, or the Virgin Mary. So throughout this concert I thought of Alais, and of how much she would have 
enjoyed it. I know I did.
Eleanor of Aquitaine Lives
Monday, March 8th, 2010 | Eleanor of Aquitaine | No Comments
…and not just in my own mind. I am not the only one who loves her. Check out March 3rd’s blog on Historical Fiction.com and Saturday, March 6’s blog on Scandalous Women.com…there are a lot of Eleanor fans out there…we are not alone…
http://scandalouswoman.blogspot.com/2010/03/everything-eleanor-new-novels-about.html
And
http://www.historical-fiction.com
I apologize that my links aren’t working here. You will have to take the added step of cutting and pasting the web addresses into your browser…sorry about these technical difficulties… I am a 12th Century kind of chick, but I hope to figure this out and fix it…
Christy at the Museum of the Middle Ages
Friday, March 5th, 2010 | The Writing Life, Video Blog Entries | 1 Comment
Here is my last video blog from Paris…I spent some time at the Museum of the Middle Ages, my second favorite museum in Paris after the Louvre.
Mary Renault: An Inspiration
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 | Reviews, The Writing Life | No Comments
My favorite author of all time is Mary Renault. For those of you who have yet to discover her, during the mid 20th century, she wrote historical novels about ancient Greece. My favorite of her novels is THE PERSIAN BOY and THE MASK OF APOLLO, but I have never read one of her books that did not teach me more about being a writer, and about what it means to be a human being.
