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

The Albany Empire State Book Festival and the amazing blog tour so far

April 12, 2010

I spent two days at the Albany Empire State Book Festival where five thousand writers, librarians and book lovers gathered. Amazingly, they had a panel on historical fiction in which I was able to participate, struggling through a rather heavy head cold which descended on me as I arrived by train in Albany and thus tried to avoid hand shaking!! My prayers were: "Please let them love my book and please don't let them catch my cold!"

CLAUDE & CAMILLE has been featured on many websites to date for which I am very grateful. I am trying to list most of them under the Events and Blog Tour tab. I hope I have not missed any. The first week of the book debut has been wonderful.

Comments

  1. April 13, 2010 7:26 PM EDT
    Stephanie,

    I am THRILLED that the first week is going well. I am absolutely loving the final version. I'm sorry I wasn't able to come to Albany. I had intended to, but time and money would not permit.

    Much success!!!!

    Love,
    Michael
    - Michael DiSchiavi

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