Tag: The House on Tenafly Road
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Books I’ve Known and Loved
My heart beats a little quicker for this extremely fun and informative gem, The Look of the Old West Lieutenant John Weldon in The House on Tenafly Road took his family to a western military outpost after the Civil War and this book helped make that possible. Scholarly research is a great thing but Foster […]
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Books I’ve Known And Loved
When you write about post-Civil War America it’s impossible not to bump up against war wounds. John Weldon in The House on Tenafly Road is addicted to morphine, given his first dose in a Civil War hospital by well-meaning doctors trying to keep him comfortable before his eventual death–which never happens. He escapes in his […]
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The 19th Century Women Responsible for Questions about Womanhood
I’m traveling over to England today to talk about one of my favorite subjects–women– on Helen Hollick’s blog Let us Talk of Many Things; of Books and Queens and Pirates, of History and Kings . . . Helen has written a ton of historical fiction and pirate-based adventure fantasy novels. She’s been traditionally and independently […]
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Inside the Actors Studio–Writing is an Act
small sampling of rough draft (first one) To write a book you don’t have to wait until you can comfortably say you are a writer when you’re at the hair salon making small talk. (it took me about 7 years to admit to people I was writing a novel). You can’t wait until you have […]
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McLovin’ 1864
Okay, I’ll admit it, after only a few days of post Valentine’s Day optimism, I need to remind myself that all of that uninhibited flirtation and carousing during the Civil War did come at a cost. I was as shocked as my character Katherine when her brother confessed that during the war he’d contracted gonorrhea […]
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Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1863
Research, research, research . . . just finished the “final” edit of The House on Tenafly Road for paperback!! Got all choked up over the ending, again.
Author Adrienne Morris 