A “Relation Spéciale”?
It is no secret that this US president evokes wildly negative feelings in many. [Full disclosure: I did not vote for him.]
“That an author, in possession of a completed novel…”
I find one of the “sneaky” joys in fiction writing is basing characters, or important aspects of them, on living (or once living) people and only you know who he or she “really” is.
Snapshots
I do not agree with the increasingly common assertion that adult readers “need to see themselves” in a character in order to be interested in a book. In fact, I believe rather the opposite.
The Triangular Alliance
My wife also laughs to family and friends, “It’s a bit of a weird feeling being English and visiting George Washington’s or Thomas Jefferson’s house.”
“All for one, one for all”
I envy someone reading it for the first time.
Our Always Imperfect World
As was the case for most of those who came before us (such as those “1787” fictional people above), most of us wish merely to live our lives in peace amongst our families and friends.
Those Immortal Letters Of Transit, Signed By…
But does he really say “de Gaulle?” Lorre there is hard to understand. It does sound as if he says “de Gaulle,” but he somewhat mumbles.
At “5 o’clock in the mornings”
At “5 o’clock in the mornings” thinking and typing sessions at my PC over in the Catskills, in upstate New York, I began outlining and producing a travel/students/Europe/romance story…
The British And The Americans: Beginnings
An aside to put the era in some additional context. As the American rebellion was breaking out in 1775, in England one Jane Austen was born that same year and lived until 1817.
The French And The Americans
Many of those looking your way across that huge ocean are as curious about you as you may be about them.
