Ask the Author: Lona Manning
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Lona Manning
Probably! But I would like to tell my friends and followers that my forthcoming book, Shelley and the Unknown Lady, is an excerpt from the last volume of The Mansfield Trilogy. So if you have read "A Different Kind of Woman," you've already read the story. I'm taking the sub-plot about Percy Bysshe Shelley and packaging it as a stand-alone story. I'm really excited about the cover that Dissect Designs has done for this one!
Lona Manning
I had sun-ripened tomatoes, crispy bacon, fresh iceburg lettuce, ground black pepper and soft bread. I had no mayonnaise.
Lona Manning
Jane Austen's nephew described "the charm of recent composition," that is, the feeling you get when you've just written something and you think it's good!
Lona Manning
Currently working on a sequel to A Contrary Wind!
Lona Manning
"The Muse descends" is how the Ancient Greeks describes it and that's how to feels to me. The inspiration or idea seems comes out of nowhere. If I'm too busy or preoccupied with something else, my Muse goes away.
I remember when 9/11 happened -- I knew there would be a deluge of articles, poems and painting unleashed, because that is how writers, poets and artists process important or traumatic events.
I remember when 9/11 happened -- I knew there would be a deluge of articles, poems and painting unleashed, because that is how writers, poets and artists process important or traumatic events.
Lona Manning
I usually turn to doing some research for my book, for example, reading more about the British Navy or other aspects of Regency life. Or I re-read passages I've already written. Or I pack it in and do the laundry or get something to eat!
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Sep 08, 2020 01:42PM · flag