Reading at the Glen Ellyn Bistro Monet in front of a Monet print with Susan of the bistro. Brunch was great!

Reading at Kris Waldherr's Art & Words Gallery in Brooklyn

In the Irish West Country -- photo by Fiona Claire

Writing historical fiction: sometime journal of a New York City novelist

working on my new novel and preparing for C&C debut

January 14, 2010

I am juggling things these days as most authors do. My new blog tour manager Diane Saarinen will be working with many blog sites for the April debut of CLAUDE & CAMILLE. Once she sent out her initial announcement of the book to bloggers, the positive responses came in very quickly. Left me rather breathless actually! Today USA Today included the novel in their spring forecasts of books. But mainly I am so happy to be working intensely again. There was a wonderful article on line about how pr can distract a novelist from creative work and I will be happy to send on the url to anyone who wishes it.

MY FIVE HISTORICAL NOVELS ABOUT ARTISTS, WRITERS, MUSICIANS, ACTORS, 17th CENTURY PHYSICIANS, AND SPIRITUAL SEEKERS

CLAUDE AND CAMILLE
the love story of the young, unknown Claude Monet and his muse Camille Doncieux
MARRYING MOZART
Four lovely, musical sisters and one suitor -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
NICHOLAS COOKE and THE PHYSICIAN OF LONDON
The first two novels of a trilogy about a brilliant Elizabethan man who was an actor, physician and priest
THE PLAYERS: A NOVEL OF THE YOUNG SHAKESPEARE
the passionate love story between Shakespeare, his patron and Emilia Bassano -- based on the sonnets