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My Transcendent Journey with Queen Catharine Montour
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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Tagged American Revolution, books, George Washington, historical fiction, history, Major General John Sullivan, Native American history, New York History, paranormal writing experiences, Pennsylvania history; colonial history, publishing, The French and Indian War, transformation, writing
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Historical Fiction Writing is Communing with the Dead
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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Tagged American Revolution, historical fiction, Native American history, paranormal, spiritual, writing
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Veteran’s Day Contemplation
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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Tagged forgiveness, history, inspiration, love, peace, peacekeepers, soldiers, transformation, Veteran's Day, war, writing
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My Seventh Journey to Ireland
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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Tagged An Gorta Mor, art, Beara Peninsula, Cailleach, Clare, dance, famine, food, hiking, Ireland, Kilnaboy, memorials, memory, the Hag Goddess, writing
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Winter Thoughts
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
A Little Art Exhibit
“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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Tagged art, creativity, exhibiting art, inspiration, painting, writing
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I Have to be About My Art!
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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Tagged historical fiction, hope, Irish history, Norah, persevering with art, publishing, rejection letters, writing
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Pavlova in a Hat Box
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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Tagged advertising, art, books, desserts, essays, marketing, pastry, promotion, writing
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Listening to Ghosts
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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Tagged ghosts, history, hunger, Ireland, Irish Famine, silence, The Famine Plot, Tim Pat Coogan, writing
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