Tag: Writing
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Angling for the Fisher King: Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Constructing Characters in Historical Fiction
“Amalric died in the same year, succeeded by perhaps the most gallant figure of the whole Frankish venture, the leper king, Baldwin IV ([reign] 1174-85), who inherited the throne at thirteen, a year after his leprosy had been discovered [sic]. He literally dropped to pieces during his reign, a via dolorosa on which he showed,…
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*Release Day for THE GOURD AND THE STARS*
By the staff of St. James, everyone, we have made it (with your encouragement) to another publication day! My latest novel, THE GOURD AND THE STARS, is available TODAY (1/12/2024) in paperback and ebook on virtually all major platforms (Hoopla, as always, is late). Join me for a classic Crusades romance with knights, ladies, adventure,…
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📚Join me and my editor for discussion about writing and publishing (and my next book)!📚
Hello all, I wanted to let you know that I am (excitedly!) doing a live guest spot on my editor Jessica Hatch’s Stubstack podcast, Comp Title Book Club, this Saturday, January 13th, 2024 at 2pm EST! Jessica is veteran editor and author with experience in both traditional and indie publishing, and she is using all…
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Preview for THE GOURD AND THE STARS
As previously promised, I want to take this week to talk a little about my next book, The Gourd and the Stars, as I’ve entered the last pre-formatting editing phase and my artist at SelfPubBookCovers is beginning work on a cover. I thought I still might be jumping the gun a bit, but seeing how…
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The Girl Who Lived: Historical People and the Question of Ethics in Historical Fiction
This entry is going to broadly discuss historical fiction, and the framing of two novels, Philip Roth’s The Ghost Writer (1979) and Shalom Auslander’s Hope: A Tragedy (2012) in particular. While normally I wouldn’t post spoiler warnings for two books forty-four and eleven years old respectively, because both books’ synopses play the historical denouement of…
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Release Day for *The Flight of Virtue*
Apologies for a second sales post in a week, but as promised, I just wanted to remind all of you that my latest book, THE FLIGHT OF VIRTUE is fully live today on all digital storefronts! I’m so excited to bring you this brand new story that is part historical fiction, part alternative history, and…
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Book Release + Sale Announcement!
I try not to spam all of you with too many promotional posts, but I did want to let everyone know that my next book, The Flight of Virtue will be available for purchase this Friday, (2/3/2023) at all online digital retailers for the ebook ($2.99) and Amazon for the paperback edition ($14.00). For a…
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A Preview Post for the Next Book
Okay, I had planned to write up a whole post about classical Indian theatre, which I’m sure I’ll do in the near future. But I had also promised updates on my next book assuming the verdict from my editor wasn’t a total disaster, and since I’ve just wrapped up my first pass through her notes…
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Publishing Perils: Mark Twain, Amanda McKittrick Ros, and the Exuberant Afterlife of Irene Iddesleigh
“Over the years A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage has been ignored almost entirely by the myriad scholars who have scrutinized every other scrap of Twain’s writing voluminously.” – Roy Blount Jr., foreword to the Norton edition (2001) “Ros’ writing is not just bad, in other words; its badness is so potent that it seems to…
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Scribbling in the Wild: Creative Writing, Self-Publishing, and Finding Your Inner Author in 2022 (Part 2)
Last we talked about the writing process and getting past the mental mind blocks to getting your authorial groove on. After all of the actual writing, let’s say you beat the odds and have a finished manuscript you don’t completely hate… now what? That was a question I sat on for three years because I…
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