Building a Character

Building a Character

Capriccio Padovano by Bernardo Belloto Here is the painting I chose for my character, Evangeline Lindenmayer, for her bedroom. Evangeline has simple tastes and isn’t given to frills and furbelows like her mother, whose taste runs to the lavishly extreme and...
Charles Frederick Worth and Haute Couture

Charles Frederick Worth and Haute Couture

One of the pleasures of doing research for historical novels is learning about cultures different from my own. This applies whether I am writing a story set in the 5th century or the 19th Century. Charles Frederick Worth was an English designer who lived in Paris and...
Miniature Books

Miniature Books

Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I’m working on plotting out my Gilded Age novel and doing lots of research. I’ve decided to give my main character the hobby of collecting miniature books, which have been around for thousands of years. The earliest...
Entering the Gilded Age

Entering the Gilded Age

The Gold Room at the Marble House I’ve been a busy little bee, working at plotting out not one but two novels. I’m very excited about #4, set in the Gilded Age of America. This time period was roughly 1870 to 1914. It was a time of excess the likes of...
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