Writing historical fiction: sometime journal of a New York City novelist
Three weeks after my novel's debut
April 28, 2010
It is STILL strange to get so many comments (almost all of them perfectly wonderful) to this novel which was a story inside me for so long. I have had several strong press reviews and online reviews, topped by the rave in the Boston Globe and People magazine's choice of the book as a Read More
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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 Read More
debut reading at NYC B&N and first online reviews
April 8, 2010
The debut reading for CLAUDE & CAMILLE was more than I could ever have hoped. We had nearly a hundred people with many standing in the back. One person bought six or seven copies! I saw so many beloved old friends there and afterward a few of us went out to eat. I was starving; I Read More
thoughts on the eve of the publication of my new novel
April 6, 2010
I have spent the evening going to dinner with my husband and have been e-mailing friends in a kind of daze. I think only another writer can know the time and intensity it can take to bring a novel together. It is an enormous force of will, thousands of hours, incredible support from many Read More
my blog tour for CLAUDE & CAMILLE begins!
March 25, 2010
Please see links posted a few times a week or daily at EVENTS & BLOG TOUR tab of this site. Today's is Book Browse: THE MYSTICISM AND CRAFT OF HISTORICAL FICTION.
the first copies of my new novel...
March 17, 2010
...came to my door yesterday. They are so beautiful I can hardly believe it. It seems like mine and yet separate from me. In one hour I feel I am grasping it against me, and the next hour that I have begun to let it go. How can something with so much love and Read More
Less than four weeks until Claude & Camille is published!
March 10, 2010
Fortunately I am heavily back into working on my new novel. My mailing list is as complete as I am going to make it for now, I have done almost all my guest blogs, have nine appearances set up and the rest...we will have to see. I once read of an author of Read More
a little less than six weeks to novel debut...
February 27, 2010
I am afraid my novel-in-progress is suffering a bit from lack of author attention as I am swept away by the excitement of CLAUDE & CAMILLE's debut in the world. However, this is a good time to read other novels. I read Kathleen Grissom's deep and tender novel about an Irish orphan raised with a Read More
the earliest stages of writing a novel
February 24, 2010
This is a beautiful time, a half-waking dream. I just scribble on my file, my fingers drifting over the keys, taking notes for half formed ideas, glimpsing the back of a female character as she walks in her long skirts down a path. I scribble a half idea for a scene of the first Read More
the exciting two months before publication
February 12, 2010
I was just telling a friend that it is hard to believe it is less than two years ago that I started the final draft of CLAUDE & CAMILLE which sold six months later. Now almost everyday something else happens in the possibility of a reading or an online review. Everyone at CROWN is wonderful Read More