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Stephanie Cowell

Historical novels about painters, musicians, writers, and actors
How can the struggle to create art and love combine? 

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

The Fiction Writers' Co-Op

March 10, 2011
I simply must introduce you to this marvelous group of 51 novelists who have banded together to help each other with every kind of writing and publicity challenge. We came together by invitation of the gifted Cathy Buchanan (The Day the Falls Stood Still). The link to a list of some of the writers' novels  Read More 
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being still and writing well

February 13, 2011
I realized again today how much stillness I need if I am to write well. I miss my warm weather walks down to the Hudson River. I tend to be the sort of person who would like to use every hour productively. I lie down on the sofa and then remember who I didn't  Read More 
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my writing schedule

January 17, 2011
I am inspired to write this by a post on the Girlfriends Book Club where 18 writers tell how they write. Link is left!

I generally am asleep by midnight (trying not to think of all the things  Read More 
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A beautiful Christmas memory - Langstaff's Christmas Revels

December 16, 2010
We put on Christmas cds to prepare for some holiday guests and the music and words of the original Christmas Revels burst into the room, filling my heart with such memories! Perhaps twenty years ago when I was revising and trying to find a publisher for my first book, the Elizabethan NICHOLAS COOKE, I  Read More 
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The actress Barbara Rinella and CLAUDE & CAMILLE

December 2, 2010
I got such lovely news from the actress Barbara Rinella who is giving a one-woman presentation of CLAUDE & CAMILLE in several places in the Midwest and California this winter. Of her first presentation at a benefit in Crystal Lake, she wrote me: "There were 500 people to watch Claude and Camille, A Novel of  Read More 
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</i>a nun who loves to go dancing

November 15, 2010
A nun who loves to go dancing -- I have decided that is what I am. Being a novelist is like having a vocation. It is a very demanding, concentrated vocation and when all is going well, your characters and their needs are completely satisfied and on their way to a printed, fully formed  Read More 
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back from Switzerland and France

October 11, 2010
I have been away! 18 days to visit family in Switzerland with my husband, once again seeing the gorgeous mountains! Then to Paris and Brittany. I got three ideas for new novels in one day; what a pity it takes so long to write even one! Walking the streets of Paris was so moving for  Read More 
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remembering my 12 magical days in Oxford

August 19, 2010
A number of years ago, I won a scholarship through the English Speaking Union to live at Jesus College in Oxford for twelve magical days which became rather an ideal for the rest of my life. I lived in a room on the Quad of this 16th century college and was served kippers and  Read More 
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A walk at night in my NYC neighborhood

August 4, 2010
Tags: Upper West Side, brownstones
I just went out for a breath of air, and there isn't much. It's still 82 degrees at 11:00 pm. I love my neighborhood at night! Lights shimmer from the old brownstones on side streets and the trees before them are heavy and still. The young, bearded Greek orthodox priest in his cassock was standing outside  Read More 
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from a hot New York City and active novelist!

July 17, 2010
It's been so long since I wrote here! It's hard to believe that I was in Glen Ellyn outside Chicago just four weeks ago! I am intensely working on my new novel and have been wonderfully surprised by the many e-mails from readers and book clubs about CLAUDE & CAMILLE. Our writers' group which formed  Read More 
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