Tava Musial
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Leah Marie Brown:
I love how your work is so diverse. I'm a history buff and really enjoy your books with a lot of historical facts. Would you consider writing a book set in America at some time in the past. Also, what do you think about time travel?
Leah Marie Brown
Gee thanks, Tava! I didn't know there was anyone still alive who has read my historical novels (joking...sorta).
I love writing historical novels because I can be more dramatic and pull out the purple prose -- which I haven't figured out how to do in writing chicklits without sounding like a modern-day Sarah Bernhardt (pressing hand to forehead and sighing).
I don't know if I would ever write a historical set in America. If I did, it would have to be the 18th century, because that is the time period of I have studied for thirty years. I am a stickler for detail and would want to know I got every detail -- from the paniers to the powdered wig -- right.
As far as time travel - I actually wrote one about a woman who buys an old fan at an auction and is transported back to 18th century France, just before the revolution. It won a few minor contests and no sits in the dusty file on my hard-drive titled, "She Shoots, She Misses."
I love writing historical novels because I can be more dramatic and pull out the purple prose -- which I haven't figured out how to do in writing chicklits without sounding like a modern-day Sarah Bernhardt (pressing hand to forehead and sighing).
I don't know if I would ever write a historical set in America. If I did, it would have to be the 18th century, because that is the time period of I have studied for thirty years. I am a stickler for detail and would want to know I got every detail -- from the paniers to the powdered wig -- right.
As far as time travel - I actually wrote one about a woman who buys an old fan at an auction and is transported back to 18th century France, just before the revolution. It won a few minor contests and no sits in the dusty file on my hard-drive titled, "She Shoots, She Misses."
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