RECENT GUEST POSTS BY STEPHANIE ABOUT SALIERI & MOZART, ENGLAND and ADVENT Falling in love with England and its history
click to read post! Salieri and Mozart - who were they really?
click to read post! Thoughts after the first Sunday in Advent
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Kathy Leonard Czepiel, author of A VIOLET SEASON
Robert Browning
The bedroom of Robert Browning and his wife Elizabeth in Florence. Open 3 afternoons a week. A hidden secret place.
Reading at Kris Waldherr's Art & Words Gallery in Brooklyn
Reading at the Glen Ellyn Bistro Monet in front of a Monet print with Susan of the bistro. Brunch was great!
In the Irish West Country -- photo by Fiona Claire
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Writing historical fiction: sometime journal of a New York City novelistTotal heaven! - another exhibition of impressionism at the Met Museum!March 10, 2013 
Camille or The Green Dress by the 25-year-old Claude Monet
(The Met opened in 1872, seven years after this painting was created.) There were also several other original paintings borrowed from other museums of Camille...plus dress reproductions, parasols, fans, cosmetic boxes, prints from (more…) Christmas DayDecember 25, 2012 
my husband and our Christmas tree
Hard to believe December is here already!December 4, 2012 
New York City Christmas tree salesmen (from the NY Daily News)
a guest blog from the author of A VIOLET SEASON, New York State 1898October 29, 2012
NOTE ABOUT MY GUEST AUTHOR:
This rainy and pre-hurricane day in NYC, I want to extend a warm welcome to Kathy Leonard Czepiel, the author of A Violet Season, a historical novel set on a Hudson Valley violet farm on the eve of the twentieth century. I found her book the old-fashioned way: browsing in a book shop! Kathy is the recipient of a 2012 creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and her (more…) The Next Big Thing: Find Out What I'm Working OnOctober 6, 2012 
Elizabeth Barrett Browning about the time of her marriage
What is your working title of your book? ELIZABETH’S ROOM. I am sure we won’t end up with this title! Where did the idea come from for the book? (more…) just a little bit of news of my daily life...October 3, 2012 
LIRR Penn Station NYC - I was going to Track 21 (see sign!)
"I'm late!" said the White Rabbit (and the author)August 24, 2012 ...."I'm late." Which is what I seem to be these days but at least I am moving ahead in several areas. We are preparing my first two novels (NICHOLAS COOKE and THE PHYSICIAN OF LONDON) as e-books which is taking some time as they must be scanned (no electronic copies available) and proofed etc. so the first one will be available by the end of August. The two books got marvelous reviews and the second won the American Book Award. And finally I am spending serious hours on pulling the draft of the concluding book of the trilogy together. I have been working on it in bits over the years but I think this is the time for it to flower. (more…) all sorts of new and lovely things in this writer's lifeApril 27, 2012 
with writer Kimberly Eve at the Cloisters
a new Indie novel about a young singer debutsMarch 13, 2012
I am so delighted to welcome novelist Susan Dormady Eisenberg to my blog. Susan is the author of THE VOICE I JUST HEARD, a coming-of-age story about a young soprano who wants to sing musicals on Broadway and the rather lost, utterly appealing baritone with whom she falls in love.
In addition to asking (more…) waiting for snow in New York City and finishing a draft of my new novelJanuary 20, 2012 
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I have finished my novel THE BROWNINGS and have just sent it to my agent...and after much discussion, praise, and thoughts, it's felt I should revise some more. So you can't pre-order yet on Amazon or reserve it at your favorite bookshop. Back to the computer! To let you know, THE BROWNINGS is the story of the lovely, extraordinarily gifted poet Elizabeth Barrett who in 1845 had not left her father's London house for five years after much serious illness and family tragedy. Into her life came the handsome rising poet Robert Browning, several years younger than she, who fell madly in love with her. (more…) |
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