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My Transcendent Journey with Queen Catharine Montour

Posted on September 15, 2022 by cynthianeale

My upcoming historical fiction novel, Catharine, Queen of the Tumbling Waters, is being published by Bedazzled Ink Publishers in April 2023. Bedazzled Ink is dedicated to general and literary fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books that celebrate the unique and under-represented … Continue reading →

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Historical Fiction Writing is Communing with the Dead

Posted on April 20, 2022 by cynthianeale

I never intended to write a novel about Catharine Montour, aka Queen Catharine, a Native American and French woman who was born in Pennsylvania around 1729 and lived through the French and Indian War and American Revolution. Her name (and … Continue reading →

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Veteran’s Day Contemplation

Posted on November 11, 2019 by cynthianeale

It’s been a somber, gray day when the dead are felt in the wind and gravity of this public holiday. Holiday. Indeed not. As a child in America, for the most part, one is protected from war and rumors of … Continue reading →

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My Seventh Journey to Ireland

Posted on August 29, 2015 by cynthianeale

It had been seven years since my last Ireland visit and when I traveled on August 7th, it was my seventh journey to celebrate a January 7th birthday. I hadn’t an inkling there were so many seven occurrences until a … Continue reading →

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Winter Thoughts

Posted on February 11, 2015 by cynthianeale

The sun is brilliant and is offering me hope, for my winter weariness has become as heavy as the weight of the snow in Boston and the surrounds. I am agitated, angry, and anxious. I have always liked alliteration. Yesterday, … Continue reading →

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A Little Art Exhibit

Posted on April 16, 2014 by cynthianeale

  “Just finish it!” my ninth grade art instructor said with clenched teeth as he stood behind me breathing down my neck as I worked on a sketch of a chair. If only I had more time, I’d get the … Continue reading →

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I’m a Big Barnes & Noble Fan!

Posted on March 6, 2014 by cynthianeale

I try. Honestly, I try to support local bookstores when I travel and especially where I now live. But it ain’t easy sometimes because I have local bookstore tales to tell from the perspective of an author. Some are just … Continue reading →

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I Have to be About My Art!

Posted on February 1, 2014 by cynthianeale

It’s a new year and I have a new publisher for Norah: The Making of an Irish-American Woman in 19th-Century New York. My previous publisher, Lucky Press, went out of business and for months after, I couldn’t query publishers. I … Continue reading →

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Pavlova in a Hat Box

Posted on November 8, 2013 by cynthianeale

Hemingway posed for beer ads, Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass and wrote his own reviews under a pseudonym; In 1887, Guy de Maupassant sent up a hot-air balloon over the Seine with the name of his latest short story. … Continue reading →

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Listening to Ghosts

Posted on October 23, 2013 by cynthianeale

I desire silence. I want to be free from the noise that humans make. I fear I will never be free from this noise. I’m often in the woods and I still hear a car that is miles away or … Continue reading →

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