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Listen in as I chat with ReShonda Tate, the author of dozens of novels including The Queen of Sugar Hill, ReShonda's first historical novel. It's listed in the Film category on Art In Fiction.

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Highlights include:

• Why write a novel about Hattie McDaniel, famous for playing Mammy in Gone with the Wind and being the first Black person to win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1939
• Hattie's famous line about how she'd rather play a maid than be a maid.
• The novel as a story about a career woman before her time
• Hattie's troubled love life
• Hattie's relationship with Clark Gable
• Researching The Queen of Sugar Hill
• Fact vs. fiction - an example of a fictionalized event in The Queen of Sugar Hill
• Hattie's activism during and after the war and her successful challenge of the restrictive covenant that kept the Sugar Hill neighborhood for "whites only" that led to a landmark Supreme Court case
• Theme of The Queen of Sugar Hill
• Reading from The Queen of Sugar Hill
• ReShonda's focus on writing historical fiction 
• What ReShonda is working on now

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ReShonda Tate's Website: https://www.reshondatate.com

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Paganology, performed by The Paul Plimley Trio; composed by Gregg Simpson

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Natasha Lester, the bestselling author of nine novels. joins me on The Art In Fiction Podcast to chat about her latest novel, The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard, listed in the Textile Arts category.

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Highlights include:

• Summary of The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard ; role played by the Battle of Verseilles in November 1973
• Challenges of writing three points of view in three timeframes
• Fashion in the 1970s as inspiration for the novel
• Mizza Bricard, known to history as "Christian Dior's Muse", as the catalyst for the novel, and debunking the focus on "woman as muse"
• Combining fictional and real characters in the novel: Mizza Bricard with her two fictional descendants
• Women in fashion over the decades: has anything changed?
• Role of the Bayeux Tapestry in the novel as a metaphor for gender imbalance
• Natasha's use of language and imagery
• Reading from The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard
• Advice about research methods
• What Natasha  is working on now

Check out The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard and other novels by Natasha Lester on Art In Fiction: https://www.artinfiction.com/novels?q=natasha+lester

Natasha Lester's Website: https://natashalester.com.au/

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Listen in as I chat with Susanne Dunlap, author of more than a dozen historical novels for adults and teens. Susanne joins me on The Art In Fiction Podcast to discuss one of her newest novels, The Courtesan's Daughter, listed in the Film category on Art In Fiction.

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Highlights include:

• Inspiration for The Courtesan's Daughter - Alice Guy-Blaché, a pioneering French filmmaker who appears in the novel
• Focus on developing the story of a mother and daughter in early-20th-century New York and exploring generational conflict
• What silent films were like in 1910 when the novel is set
• Research into the period: Vitagraph, the innovations of early filmmaker J. Stuart Blackburn, and why the film industry eventually moved from New York to LA
• Role of "pornographic" postcards in the novel
• Writing the "messy middle" of a novel
• Themes in The Courtesan's Daughter
• Reading from The Courtesan's Daughter
• How story is the most important element in historical fiction
• Advice about research methods
• What Susanne is working on now

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Paganology, performed by The Paul Plimley Trio; composed by Gregg Simpson

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Listen in as I chat with Madeline Martin, the bestselling author of novels set in World War II along with dozens of romance novels. Madeline joins me on The Art In Fiction Podcast to discuss her three novels listed in the Literature category on Art In Fiction: The Last Bookshop in London, The Librarian Spy and her latest novel, The Keeper of Hidden Books. 

Highlights include:

• Why Madeline chose books as her way into stories about WWII
• Why The Keeper of Hidden Books is set in Warsaw
• The role Poland and the Polish Resistance played in WWII
• The theme of The Keeper of Hidden Books
• Two short readings from The Keeper of Hidden Books
• Book banning in WWII Poland and contemporary United States: parallels?
• The Librarian Spy and its setting in Lisbon and Lyon
• Fado in Lisbon
• The Blitz and The Last Bookshop in London
• Research about London during the Blitz from memoirs contained in the Mass Observation published in the 1930s and 1940s in England
• Differences between historical fiction and historical romance
• Advice about research methods
• Madeline's next novel
• What Madeline is currently reading 

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Madeline Martin's Website

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Paganology, performed by The Paul Plimley Trio; composed by Gregg Simpson

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In this episode, I'm chatting with Pip Williams, author of two novels featured in the Literature category on Art In Fiction: The Dictionary of Lost Words andThe Bookbinder. 

Highlights include:

• The Oxford English Dictionary and Oxford University Press as inspiration for both novels
• Finding treasure in the archives of Oxford University Press
• Inspiration for The Bookbinder and an examination of women's work before and during World War I
• The role class plays in both novels
• Women and the vote in 1918: working-class women were not included
• Finding information about the lives of working women in archives written primarily by men
• The characters of the identical twins Peggy and Maude in The Bookbinder
• Reading from The Bookbinder, featuring Calliope, Peggy and Maude's canal boat home in Oxford
• Reasons for the breakout success of The Dictionary of Lost Words
• Description of research methods
• Two excellent pieces of advice for new authors
• What Pip is currently reading 

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Paganology, performed by The Paul Plimley Trio; composed by Gregg Simpson

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In this episode, I'm chatting with Nicola Harrision, author of two novels featured on Art In Fiction: Laguna Beach in the Visual Arts category and The Show Girl  in the Theater category. 

Highlights include:

• Origins of Laguna Beach as the story of a woman who had been a Rosie the Riveter in WWII only to be thanked and sent on her way at the end of the war
• The Pageant of the Masters, a unique art event that's been going almost continuously since 1932
• The role visual arts has played in Nicola's life as the daughter of two artists
• Writing a flawed character
• Reading from Laguna Beach featuring the Pageant of the Masters
• California Impressionists and the art of the 1940s in Laguna Beach
• Origins of The Show Girl  about a young woman from the Midwest who lands a coveted role with the Ziegfeld Follies
• Role of the Adirondack Great Camps in the novel and in the 1920s
• Advice about research methods
• Description of Nicola's writing routines: writing is a job!
• What Nicola is working on now
   

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Paganology, performed by The Paul Plimley Trio; composed by Gregg Simpson

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I'm chatting with Liza Nash Taylor, author of Etiquette for Runaways and In All Good Faith.

Highlights include:

• Origins of Etiquette for Runaways (Hint: don't text and talk!)
• Moll Flanders as inspiration for the main character May Marshall
• Finding Easter Eggs to inspire plot
• What happens when a fully formed character pops into your head and just won't go away
• Prohibition-era moonshine in Etiquette for Runaways
• Black performers in Jazz-age Paris and being inspired by Josephine Baker
• Reading from Etiquette for Runaways
• Inspiration for In All Good Faith
• Role of the Veterans Bonus March on Depression-era Washington
• Challenges of writing strong women within an historical context
• Advice for new authors

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Paganology, performed by The Paul Plimley Trio; composed by Gregg Simpson

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Join me as I chat with Samantha Silva, author of Love and Fury and Mr. Dickens and His Carol.

Highlights:

• Origins of Love and Fury
• Why Mary Wollstonecraft: her life, her writing, and her ongoing contribution as the "first feminist"
• Structuring Love and Fury : the use of ten plot points
• Sense and sensibility in Love and Fury
• Mary Wollstonecraft's long road back into public consciousness a hundred years after her death
• Reading from Love and Fury
• Finding moments as metaphors when writing historical fiction
• Writing history and writing historical fiction: what are the differences?
• Origins of Mr. Dickens and His Carol
• Charles Dickens, rock star of his age
• Screenwriting vs novel writing
• Advice for new authors

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Paganology, performed by The Paul Plimley Trio; composed by Gregg Simpson

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Join me as I chat with Finola Austin, author of the award-winning debut novel Brontë's Mistress.

Highlights:

• Origins of Brontë's Mistress
• Investigating Lydia Robinson, rumored to have had an affair with Branwell Brontë, the ne'er-do-well brother of the famous Brontë sisters
• Inspiration from Mrs. Gaskell's biography of Charlotte Brontë
• Contrast between Lydia Robinson and the typical Brontë heroine
• Using Reddit for inspiration
• Shades of gray in Lydia Robinson, the main character of Brontë's Mistress
• Bad sex scenes: why we need more of them
• Reading from Brontë's Mistress
• Turning real characters into fictional ones: challenges & issues
• Lydia Robinson & Charlotte Brontë: not a good mix
• One thing learned from writing Brontë's Mistress
• Advice for new authors

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Paganology, performed by The Paul Plimley Trio; composed by Gregg Simpson

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Join me as I chat with Lauren Belfer, author of several riveting historical novels including And After the Fire and A Fierce Radiance.   

Highlights:

• Genesis of And After the Fire
• Learning about the music of Johann Sebastian Bach
• Salons of 19th-century Berlin and Fanny Mendelsohn
• Role of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, son of Johann Sebastian Bach, in the novel
• Fanny Mendelsohn's fraught relationship with her brother Felix Mendelsohn
• What is so appealing about Bach's music?
• Reading from And After the Fire
• Using details in historical fiction 
• Process of writing
• Genesis of A Fierce Radiance
• Parallels of the 1918 flu epidemic and COVID 
• The role of Life Magazine and photography in A Fierce Radiance
• Advice for authors: write what you don't know

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Intro: Paganology, performed by The Paul Plimley Trio; composed by Gregg Simpson
Ad: Celtic Calypso, performed by Lunar Adventures; composed by Gregg Simpson

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Want to learn more about Carol Cram, the host of The Art In Fiction Podcast? She's the author of several award-winning novels, including The Towers of Tuscany, A Woman of Note, The Muse of Fire, and The Choir. Check out her website...