Archive for March, 2010
Christy at the Met
Monday, March 29th, 2010 | Video Blog Entries | No Comments
Here’s a video of me at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of my favorite places on Earth. A monument to the dead, and to the bits of wreckage that wash up from the past. The dead are silent, but sometimes, through art, they speak.
The Queen’s Pawn in the Wilmington Star News
Friday, March 26th, 2010 | Reviews, The Queen's Pawn | No Comments
Ben Steelman has written about THE QUEEN’S PAWN in the Wilmington Star News online…a shorter version will run in this Sunday’s paper. Thank you, Ben!
http://books.blogs.starnewsonline.com/11645/she-loves-the-dark-ages-but-doesnt-want-to-live-there/
The Queen’s Pawn on WHQR
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 | The Queen's Pawn, The Writing Life | 4 Comments
I am so excited! I am going to be talking about THE QUEEN’S PAWN on Jemila Ericson’s Midday Cafe on Wilmington, NC’s public radio station WHQR…Jemila will be hosting me on Thursday, April 15 and I am thrilled.
The entire process of the novel coming into the world is really an adventure. I feel like Eleanor riding to Antioch! Except that no is trying to kill me…ok, so maybe I’m nothing like Eleanor, but it is still exciting…
Here is the link to Jemila’s show…
http://www.whqr.org/originalprograms.html
Starting Out in the Evening by Brian Morton
Monday, March 22nd, 2010 | Reviews, The Writing Life | 1 Comment
This wonderfully complex novel asks a lot of questions, but the one that concerns me here is: how important is success in a writer’s life? In the novel, we see an old man at the end of his life and his career, who still rises at the same time every morning, dons a jacket and tie, then sits and writes for his proscribed six hours a day on a novel that may never be seen by a reader. Two of his four published novels are now out of print, and none of his books ever garnered him acclaim or fanfare. And yet, every day, he rises and gets back to work.
Potential Cover Copy for To Be Queen
Friday, March 19th, 2010 | Eleanor of Aquitaine, To Be Queen | 7 Comments
I have a rough draft for part of the back cover of my next Eleanor book, TO BE QUEEN…I wonder how many changes we will make before we lock it down? My guess is MANY…
To Be Queen:
A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine
Her father murdered, a young girl sits trapped behind the walls of a fortress. At the mercy of men who would lay claim to her body to conquer her lands, she waits for her betrothed, the King of France , to set her free. But this fifteen year old girl does not need rescuing; she is stronger than any man she will ever meet.
