“When a twenty-one year old New Yorker sails for Europe in 1787…”
She was the first (after my wife) to see the rough draft of Passports. I had written it in secret
Tag: historical fiction
Here Are “The Top Five”
In the last few days I’ve seen a currently mega-popular male writer pop up in my Instagram feed repeatedly praised
“I collected a foreign parachutist…”
Amidst calls recently in the context of the Confederate statues debate to stop publicly screening Gone With The Wind, and
The Test Of Time
I joked some months ago about Conventions: The Garden At Paris being my “Gone With The Wind.” That reference was
“Maybe I’ll get to Budapest eventually”
Yesterday, we were down in London: Back now here in Hertfordshire, I thought I’d start the week addressing that dreaded
For Non-Amazons Out There
In my previous post, discussing what I hope will be a new short story (as you may know, writing a
Condemning “1940” For Omitting “1944”
Two things to remember in historical fiction writing are these: 1) Who is telling your story? 2) What could characters
America’s “Front Lawn”
As you know if you see my Instagram (and elsewhere), we spent the weekend in Washington, D.C. Somehow as an
My Main Writing Advice
I was dogsitting yesterday down in Enfield, in north London – watching our (former) hound at my in-laws, where he
What A “Romantic Novel” Is . . . And What It Is Not
My wife is in Lisbon for a couple of days… I saw her off at the airport yesterday morning –
