Author of The Reversible Mask and Beyond the Bukubuk Tree
Dear friends: NEW FEATURE TO MY BLOG! Interviews with the authors presenting at the New York chapter of the Historical Novel Society, March 26th at the Jefferson Market Library. Welcome Christina, thanks for visiting my blog! You have had a long career as a musician and actress, in addition to being a writer. How is …
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Dear friends: NEW FEATURE TO MY BLOG! Interviews with the authors presenting at the New York chapter of the Historical Novel Society, March 26th at the Jefferson Market Library. Welcome Gray, thanks for visiting my blog! You have published in the mystery, historical fiction and thriller genres. How do you build characters for the different …
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Reading Stephanie Cowell’s moving evocation of the life and loves of French Impressionist painter, Claude Monet, pulled me back to my concertizing days. One of my favourite pieces to play was Franz Liszt’s Chasse Neige, an etude picturing a landscape slowly filling with snow. Liszt created what are called Tone Poems, precursors of Impressionist music. …
Dear friends: NEW FEATURE TO MY BLOG! Interviews with the authors presenting at the New York chapter of the Historical Novel Society, March 26th at the Jefferson Market Library. Welcome Stephanie, thank you so much for visiting my blog! You have set your novels in the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries with equal immediacy, with …
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This is the reading series I run and moderate in New York. The theme of our next event is novels set in the 19th century.
Open to all ages. The Task: Draw a weapon deployed by Dutch defenders of Antwerp against Spanish besiegers in 1585. There is no image of this vessel, although there is a description from a primary source published by F. Strada in the eighteenth century. It is a ship with no sails on deck, but an …
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Radio interview with the wonderful Dan Manley over at WMST! Taped January 29th.
A good, thoughtful review from author and critic Susan Appleyard over at Discovering Diamonds. Thank you!
Dear Friends, Hosts of the radio interviews I’ve been doing ask me what I think of the movie, Mary, Queen of Scots. Here goes: This latest excursion to the Tudor/Stuart saga got me sighing with happy surprise then clenching my teeth in fury and disappointment. The early section recounting young Mary, Queen of Scots’ struggle …
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I was interviewed for the February issue of Historical Novels Review! You can read the New Voices article here.