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A Good Book is a Slippery Slope
Thursday, September 24th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
I have just started reading CLEOPATRA’S DAUGHTER by Michelle Moran, and now I don’t want to put it down. I am sliding down the slope…
If it was Saturday, I would read it cover to cover in one sitting. As it is, I will have to wait until my work is done…
And I had hoped to take this one slow and savor it. It turns out, I don’t have that kind of self control. But what a delicious problem to have…a book so good, characters that breathe with such life, that I do not want to turn away.
Quote of the Week
Friday, September 18th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”
Abraham Lincoln
C. W. Gortner to Appear on My Blog
Monday, July 27th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
I have exciting news for all the historical fiction fans who may be tuning into my blog…C.W. Gortner, the author of The Last Queen about Juana of Castile, is going to do a guest blog here in the summer of 2010! Yes, I know…that’s a year from now. But I am excited, so I had to mention it anyway. I will be mentioning it off and on between now and next summer, so brace yourselves. And if you have not read his book yet, I highly recommend it. Juana of Castile, known in Spain as Juana la Loca, is a fascinating woman who lived a truly wild life. She was the daughter of Isabella of Castile, the same woman who sent Columbus on his voyage to the New World. Juana has her mother’s strength and fire, if not her political backing. An amazing woman, and an amazing book.
Siren Song
Friday, October 3rd, 2008 | Selling Your Work, The Writing Life, Uncategorized | Comments Off
Last week I had the unusual experience of reading the comments an editor made while passing on my novel. The Queen’s Pawn is being looked at by editors in nine houses in New York. Three of these houses have passed so far, which is to be expected. I have been at this awhile, so I am never surprised by rejection. I am, however surprised by compliments.
Last week’s pass was particularly surprising. The editor, a well respected woman at a house I have always hoped to work with, was so pleased with my style that she would read the same novel again with an eye toward buying it, if I were to make major changes.
Tiger’s Eye
Monday, July 28th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Once more, I disappeared from my own website for the better part of a year. I am a terrible blogger, but when I am not online, which is most of the time, I am working to become a better writer. While most of my fiction is historical in nature, concerning the Plantagenets of England and France in the late part of the twelfth century, I also write some modern fiction. The following story is one that has never been published, but that I am fond of, in spite of its many faults. It is called Tiger’s Eye. It’s a story I wrote years ago, before moving away from Wilmington and finding greater joy in New York.
