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Because I was born into a family of readers and writers and scholars and travelers, there's no mystery about how or why I found my profession. From a very early age I invented characters and composed scenes and stories in my head. At about 10 years old I first saw my own words printed--in the grammar school newsletter that I co-founded, typed, and published. Around the same time I decided to combine my theatrical and my writing ambitions, and adapted all my favourite youth novels into scripts.
Since then many, many more words have been published: novels, nonfiction articles on British history and travel and theatre, website content, book and film reviews, my M.A. thesis, advertising copy...and more.

~ 15 novels in a variety of formats and ...more

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	Beautiful Invention: A Novel of Hedy Lamarr 3.80 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Paris Underground Radio: Storytime in Paris podcast interview

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Historical Novel Society interview

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This reading group is for lovers of classic Hollywood. The movies, crews, actors, designers, and books that discuss the golden age of Hollywood! Tip: ...more

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Welcome to Historical Fictionistas! We want to experience all different kinds of HF with all different kinds of people. The more diverse, the better. ...more

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For people who find the historical people, places and events of the Stuart reign in Scotland and England absolutely fascinating. Reading, watching do ...more

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Do you love the great classics of historical fiction, books by authors such as Anya Seton, Kathleen Winsor, and Margaret Mitchell? If so, the this gro ...more

Charles I - II - 17th-18th century! — 18 members — last activity Jun 21, 2018 03:26AM
A group for books set within the reign of Charles I, English Civil Wars, Interregnum, Charles II (Restoration)to James II, and throughout the Stuart e ...more

1666 And All That — 50 members — last activity Jun 23, 2018 06:06AM
A group for lovers of historical works set in the 17th century. We welcome authors publicising their own new works - within reason! - and we LOVE re-e ...more

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