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
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 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