It’s a pleasure having award-winning novelist Susan Meissner here with us today to talk about her newest book from WaterBrook Press, The Girl in the Glass, a part-contemporary, part historical novel set in Florence, Italy. (One of my favorite story structures!) Make sure you read through to the end of this posting to learn […]
Archives for October 2012
Have You Ever Been Burned By A Good Review?
Oh, I know that title doesn’t make sense if we’re talking about authors who receive great reviews about their books, reviews that encourage readers to click “Buy.” What I’m talking about are reviews of movies. Recently my husband and I have rented a few films based entirely upon a number of great endorsements posted on […]
Authors Never Suffer From L’esprit de l’escalier
My husband was reading a commentary written by Charles Krauthammer in which he used the French phrase, L’esprit de l’escalier. Evidently it means “staircase wit” that refers to the universal situation in which we’re left speechless by some sort of rudeness or verbal attack, and only later can we imagine all kinds of appropriate retaliations. […]
Truly Where No Man Has Gone Before
Real pioneers of yesteryear like Columbus, Lewis and Clark, Nellie Bly (not only her famous reporting adventures in the asylum but her later trip around the world) represented their era in unique ways. And what about hunter/trapper Nick Stoner, who was a scout in the Revolutionary War? As an explorer, he blazed a trail northwest […]
Are You Swinging At The Pitches?
I suppose it takes only a glance at the title to know who inspired this week’s blog post. That’s right, my husband. Somehow he makes sports and science interesting to me, even though I’m just about the least sports- or science-minded person I know. When I was in my dreadful middle-grade years, I was surprisingly […]
Born In The Right Era?
As a historical writer, I sometimes feel like I was born in the wrong era. How much more exciting would it have been to see all of the things I can only research these days? Streets lined with grand carriages, filled with people dressed to match. Imagine the fabrics! And of course one of the […]
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