Luanne Rice's Blog, page 27

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Coming soon, How to Write a Novel video.  I'll tell you all my secrets! The shoot lasted all day.  Once darkness fell, Mike O'Gorman, the director, (pictured below) set up lights with red and blue gels.  The effect was quite magical.  A night shoot was essential because dreaming is such an important part of writing. [...]

A Romantic Story By Luanne Rice

If you thought Luanne Rice just wrote about love, you were sadly mistaken. In this new video, she talks about a personal experience that sounds like something right out of her novels.

We Gather Together (even if we can't)

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. This year I'm missing my sister Maureen–she and Olivier went to France, to say bon voyage to his brother and sister-in-law, leaving Bordeaux to open an inn in Indonesia.  Missing my nieces, too–Mia will be with her friend, and Molly will be with her husband Alex and his [...]

What Matters Most

Thanksgiving week, and What Matters Most is out in trade paperback.  I love the cover; it reminds me of Ireland and makes me wish I were walking on the Cliffs of Moher.   The novel picks up where Sandcastles lets off.  It's a story about two people who've loved each other forever but live their [...]

Night Neighbors

[Essay written for the catalogue of Linden Frederick's November 2011 exhibition at the Forum Gallery, New York.] Night Neighbors: Linden Frederick By Luanne Rice The night is dark, and you're all alone, or maybe you're not.   The road takes you through town after town, headlights coming at you, and you see houses, not so different [...]

The Rocks at High Tide

The Rocks at High Tide is one of my first published short stories.  It is one of many three sisters stories I wrote early on, and a predecessor to my first novel, Angels All Over Town.  It came out in ASCENT.   I was so fortunate to be plucked from the slush pile by the [...]

Veterans Day

My father joined the Army Air Corps during World War II.  He was twenty-one, from a close family in Hartford, Connecticut.   When the time came for him to report for training, Thomas F. Rice, Jr. went to the Hartford train station and joined a long line of other young men, ready to board.  The [...]

Luanne's Tribute To Her Grandmother

In this video, Luanne Rice, tells us how her Grandmother, Mim, became a huge influence on her writing.

It couldn't happen to me

I met him right after my mother died.  We fell in love fast.  In retrospect there were red flags, but I didn't know how to read them.   He had a hard luck story, an awful childhood.  Hearing about it filled me with compassion and a desire to help him.  Now, looking back, I don't [...]

Bare Branches

And now it's November. As if on cue–well, actually on cue–nature knows it's time for the thermometer to plummet, for the warblers and raptors to be on their way south, for leaves to fall so tree branches can scratch at the sky. I have a great fondness for bare branches.  They allow more sunlight through. [...]