by Mary | Jan 26, 2019 | Corpus Christi, What I'm working on now., women of the copper country, Writer Tech
Amid this week’s tumultuous current events, I’ve been working through the galleys of The Women of the Copper Country, which will be published on August 6th this year. Galley proofs are the preliminary versions of publications meant for review by authors,...
by Mary | Apr 4, 2018 | Jane Dystel, Unremembered Lives, What I'm working on now.
Two months ago, I wrote that my agents had sent Unremembered Lives out to publishers. In that blog, I compared the publishing process to selling a house. Well, last month, the right buyer took a good look at the property and said, “I love this. Let’s...
by Mary | Mar 16, 2017 | Natural History of a Novel, What I'm working on now., Writer Tech
Technically, novelists can make up anything they please, but getting things right is important to me, particularly when writing historical novels. I always try to create characters whose actions, decisions, dialog, and thoughts are comprehensible and who feel real...
by Mary | Nov 18, 2016 | An Unremembered Life, Current events, Jane Dystel, What I'm working on now., Writer Tech
While working on each of my previous six novels, I assumed it was either the only or the last story I’d ever write. Even follow-on books like Children of God and Epitaph came as a surprise to me. So I’m amazed to find that I’ve begun to do the...
by Mary | May 27, 2015 | Natural History of a Novel, THE PRICE, What I'm working on now.
When young writers ask my advice, I always tell them, “Marry an engineer. They’re not only funny, creative, rational people, they get benefits at work and there’s been been a good job market for them since the Renaissance.” I’m not...
by Mary | Jul 16, 2014 | Edgar Allan Poe, Natural History of a Novel, What I'm working on now., Writer Tech
The first book I didn’t write was about Jean-Louis Michel. The son of a French soldier and a Haitian slave, he was born in 1775 in what is now Haiti. In 1795, Toussaint Louverture and the black population of the island defeated the French army. Those of mixed...
