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Catherine Delors and MISTRESS OF THE REVOLUTION

It is French Revolution week here on my blog. Lately I have been reading about and discussing the revolution from both sides of the story. Though I am usually too obsessed with Eleanor of Aquitaine to see beyond the 12th Century, my reading of late has taken me to 18th Century France, and to the [...]

Eleanor and TO BE QUEEN on Dizzy C's Little Book Blog

Thank you so much to Dizzy C for hosting me on her blog today. I really enjoyed exploring a few details of Eleanor's life. As always when I write about my favorite woman of all time, I found that I had to be very strict with myself so that I did not go on too [...]

Cathedral State Park

Last year, I had the joy of driving to West Virginia and taking in the beauty of their state parks. I saw deer and bears (from a distance, thank goodness), and the entire experience was one of bliss and peace. As I write in the Cave, writing my latest work in progress, I thought I [...]

See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil: Guest Post by Sandra Byrd

I am very excited to welcome Sandra Byrd to my blog. Sandra's latest novel, TO DIE FOR: A NOVEL OF ANNE BOLEYN,  about life in Henry VIII's dangerous court, will launch tomorrow, August 9th and will be in stores everywhere.  In today's post Sandra sets the scene of her novel for us as she explores [...]

Books Clubs By Phone

I had the best time last night visiting with a book club in Raleigh, NC. And the best thing was, I didn't have to drive to get to the meeting. I just picked up the phone, and we talked for half an hour. I felt as if I was right there in the room with [...]

Self-Publishing As An Art

There seems to be as many ways to self-publish as there are worlds to write about. Well, all right, not that many, but since the digital age has dawned, more writers are able to put their own work out into the world than ever before. We went from the age of vellum to the age [...]

Betsy Lerner's The Forest for the Trees

Long before I ever sold a word of my work, I read the THE FOREST FOR THE TREES: AN EDITOR'S ADVICE TO WRITERS by Betsy Lerner. In that memoir, or book of advice, Ms. Lerner made me feel as if I were not a madwoman for wanting to put the stories in my mind down [...]

My Thoughts on EROMENOS by Melanie McDonald

Amy of Passages to the Past and Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours sent me a copy of EROMENOS because she knows how much I adore Mary Renault. And she was right to do it…I found as I read Melanie McDonald's debut novel that I was swept into Antinous' world as I had once been swept [...]

Winner of Helen Hollick's SEA WITCH

And we have a winner of Helen Hollick's rollicking pirate novel SEA WITCH…the give away copy goes to… *         *         * Courtisan! *         *         * Congratulations! And thank you to all of you lovely people who participated in this give away. And thank you especially to Helen Hollick, who [...]

EROMENOS and a Guest Post with Melanie McDonald

With us today is Melanie McDonald, the author of the historical novel EROMENOS. Thank you for joining us as part of your blog tour, Melanie… I'm delighted to be a guest on A Writer's Life: Working with the Muse, Christy English's blog for the Historical Fiction Virtual Tour for Eromenos. In Eromenos, my debut novel, [...]