historical fiction | historical fiction
Jul.05.2010
I'm mentioning Pressfield again as one of my series of excellent writers who comes from a military background. As this lead-in indicates, Steven Pressfield served in the Marine Corps before attending Duke University.
He's one of the best writers in the field of historical fiction.
In January...
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Jun.30.2010
the first Atlantic Monthly cover from November, 1857
In honor of the sweltering weekend that Adele and I spent in Washington DC for the American Library Association (ALA) annual conference, a post about a man of ice…
WHEN I WAS LOOKING for a poem that Quinn could cut out from the paper and...
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May.26.2010
Once in a while I have to brag on the writers who inspire me. Hansen is one of a shortlist of these - a writer of great range who can occasionally leave me slack-jawed at his turns-of-the phrase. He's hardly a genre writer - and that too inspires me - moving between literate westerns, literary...
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Apr.16.2010
If there’s one thing that authoring a series of novels will teach you, it’s that you can’t wait for inspiration. But you can prompt it, give it little electric shocks that’ll keep it bubbling within you. Here are a few methods I use to do that.
I go to the places I’m writing about. I talk to people...
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Apr.12.2010
Today I received a rejection letter for the my novel-in-progress: "GATHERING OF WATERS is a very powerful novel; I remember the passion with which another editor brought it up at an editorial meeting. As beautifully written, lyrical and contemplative as it is, I don't have a vision for how to...
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Mar.25.2010
FOR YEARS AND YEARS, I have been collaborating on this Illustrated-Young-Adult-Civil-War-Ghost-Story called Picture the Dead with the lovely and talented YA author Adele Griffin, (She's not a young adult, she writes for young adults.). It's finally hitting bookstore shelves this coming May, 2010....
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Mar.14.2010
I was pleased to learn that Ka’ahumanu, the fiery chiefess who remained Kamehameha the Greats favorite wife for forty years is having a birthday. Born in Hana, Maui into the royal Ali’i class on March 17, 1777, she served as the inspiration for the heroine in my historical novel Wai-nani, High...
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Mar.10.2010
Last week I had a conversation with my sister about her daughter, my niece.
Sister: Every time I ask Shania what she wants to be when she grows up, her response is either: Actress, Dancer, Model. Never, Doctor or Lawyer.
Me: Well she is a creative soul.
Sister: That just means that I am going to...
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Mar.08.2010
Literary Bodysnatching“The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson” fits neatly into the flourishing genre of literary bodysnatching. … written in the person or from the point of view of a dead, great writer…But all are perfect for the age of too much information. The genre thrives on a contemporary...
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Mar.08.2010
My publisher didn't notify me, but War on the Margins, my first novel about the German occupation of the Channel Islands during WWII, is now available in the US as a Kindle edition. Text-to-speech is ENABLED. Any Kindle book can be downloaded to an iPhone or a PC. Check out the Web site!
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