Tag: historical novel
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January 13, 2009 12:59 PM EST --
With Violets has a very attractive premise. It is a fictional account of the life of Berthe Morisot, one of the more prominant female painters in Paris in the 1860's-1870's, and the subject of . . .
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February 12, 2009 11:32 AM EST --
author: Lou Jane Temple
This was NOT what I'd expected!
It was a fun light read (as light as a murder mystery could be).
Old New York - Civil War era. The beginning of department stores, . . .
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March 23, 2009 01:11 PM EDT --
Hello everyone. I wrote a historical novel over a few years ago. I have rewritten it many times and found that I had trouble with getting it quite correct. Then, I joined Gather and found some wonderful . . .
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November 11, 2008 01:14 AM EST --
A Silent Ocean Away: Colette's Dominion
DeVa Gant t
Avon Books
ISBN: 978-0-06-157823-6
Part Gone with the Wind , part Jane Austen drama, A Silent Ocean Away has the range of an epic . . .
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September 09, 2008 12:46 PM EDT --
Thank you for all your comments. Below is the revised version, in part because of your suggestions...
A Portrait of Josephine is a soon-to-be published novel by the editor of FaMiss, Allison . . .
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February 05, 2008 05:14 PM EST --
Spoilers are present. If you don't like reading spoilers before you read the actual book, please don't read further. Thank you~
My book arrived on Friday, was . . .
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May 01, 2008 12:54 PM EDT --
Conspirator's Odyssey
The Evolution of the Patron Sain t
With an exciting alternative history novel, Conspirator's Odyssey: The Evolution of the Patron Sain . . .
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July 31, 2007 12:39 AM EDT --
I was one of the lucky winners to have received two new novels from Gather.com. As promised I am publishing a review of the first of the two. This novel by Frank Tallis, A Death in Vienna . . .
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February 16, 2009 01:51 AM EST --
French Letters/ Virginia’s War: Tierra, Texas, 1944
Jack Woodville London
Vire Press/ www.VirePress
ISBN: 978-0-9815975-0-8
This engaging trilogy, French Letters, opens with a scene from . . .
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March 18, 2009 05:24 PM EDT --
Hi Lisa M. and the group:
I'm new to the site and getting familiar with it. I've seen some really interesting book videos and I thought I'd share mine too. I'd like to tweak it even . . .
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February 06, 2008 02:03 AM EST --
Lady of the Roses: A Novel of the War of the Roses
Sandra Worth
ISBN: 978-0-425-21914-0
Berkley Books
Set amidst the War of the Roses in 1400s Britain, this historical . . .
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August 22, 2008 12:37 PM EDT --
As an editor and writer who saw his first published story set in hot metal, I marvel at Amazon's new Kindle reader and its role in the future of the "printed" word.
No . . .
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August 08, 2007 12:14 PM EDT --
The Portuguese bought Patient Anthony for three hundred milreis, the equivalent at the time of one hundred and fifty dollars, a good price for a slave boy in the backlands.
The slaver was Saturnino Rabelo, . . .
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February 16, 2007 05:31 PM EST --
A novel set in the late 19th century London, it starts with a very interesting premise. A young widow who is midway through mourning (a two year commitment) a husband who died while on an African . . .
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December 06, 2007 05:08 PM EST --
I worked with James Michener on his South African novel, The Covenant, involved in every stage of the book from its conception and plotting to final manuscript.
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June 13, 2007 02:06 PM EDT --
Every writer has a favorite review of his or her book, not filled with words of vacuous hype or empty praises but a critical appreciation of the contents that got it right. Plus the fact . . .
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August 08, 2007 01:22 PM EDT --
The sale of the slaves driven from the north of Brazil was concluded and the overseers stepped up to claim their new charges.
Suddenly there was a shout and a boy next to Patient Anthony scrambled to . . .
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December 29, 2008 10:10 AM EST --
When I talk to friends about the idea of writing my American novel "live" on the Internet, their response ranges from "A-mazing!" to an adamant, "I'll never . . .
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March 31, 2009 01:22 PM EDT --
If you tried to judge this book by its cover I would suggest that you dismiss the idea that the main character, Jane Popyncourt, was a blonde because she wasn't. In fact she ends up practically . . .
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July 17, 2009 02:15 PM EDT --
Sandra Gulland is known to historical fiction buffs as the woman who wrote the ‘Josephine B.’ trilogy about Napoleon’s Bonaparte’s better half – until he divorced her . . .
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