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Join me as I chat with Lynn Cullen, author of several novels, including Mrs. Poe and Twain's End.   

Highlights:

• Genesis of Twain's End
• Shocking truths about Mark Twain
• Hal Holbrook, Mark Twain, and Isabelle Lyon
• How would we label Mark Twain in this age of psychological profiling?
• Francis Osgood and her relationship with Edgar Allen Poe in Mrs. Poe
• Poe and the popularity of The Raven
• Depicting the complexity of romance
• Life and constant craving
• The creative process in Cullen's novels
• Reading from Mrs. Poe
• Advice for authors

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Lynn Cullen's Website

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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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Join me as I chat with B. A. Shapiro, the bestselling author of three fabulous novels featuring visual art: The Art Forger, The Muralist, and The Collector's Apprentice.  

Highlights:

• The attraction of art, particularly late-19th and early-20th-century art, as a subject for novels
• Genesis of The Collector's Apprentice
• Writing the "bad guy " in The Collector's Apprentice
• Cézanne and Matisse in The Collector's Apprentice
• Reading from The Collector's Apprentice
• The inspiration for The Muralist
• The role Eleanor Roosevelt plays in The Muralist
• Modern artists Pollock, de Kooning, Krasner, and Rothko in The Muralist
• What is a cowardly writer?
• Art forgery and seeing what we want to see in The Art Forger

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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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Join me as I chat with novelist Alka Joshi, author of two novels listed on Art In Fiction: The Henna Artist and The Secret Keeper of Jaipur, both set in India in the 1950s and 1960s. 

Highlights:

• Overview of The Henna Artist (Decorative Arts)
• Inspiration for The Henna Artist 
• Women and independence
• India of the 1950s and India today
• Resourcefulness of the characters in The Henna Artist and The Secret Keeper of Jaipur
• Novels as a metaphor for India
• Success of The Henna Artist
• The role played by henna in The Henna Artist
• Reading from The Henna Artist
• The genesis of The Secret Keeper of Jaipur, sequel to The Henna Artist
• Advice for authors

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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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Join me as I chat with Erika Gaffney, the creator of the ArtHerstory website at www.artherstory.net. 

Highlights:

• The genesis of ArtHerstory
• Developments in celebrating women artists from the Renaissance and Baroque eras
• Why has the work of female artists not been in the public eye until recently?
• Erika's background as an Acquisitions Editor in scholarly publishing
• Women artists in the medieval era
• Work by female artists that has been attributed to male artists
• Discussion of some of the artists featured on ArtHerstory, including Clara Peeters, Giovanna Garzoni, and Ann Vallayer-Coster
• The beautiful note cards available on ArtHerstory
• Art In Fiction novels about artists featured on ArtHerstory
• Expanding into focusing on women botanical artists
• What's next for ArtHerstory?

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ArtHerstory notecards featuring the paintings of female artists are available in museum gift shops in the United States, notably at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and the Joslyn Art Museum in Nebraska.

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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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Join me as I chat with Deborah Swift, author of four novels listed on Art In Fiction, including The Lady's Slipper and the Women of Pepys' Diaries series, all set in England in the 17th century. 

Highlights:

• Genesis of The Lady's Slipper (Visual Arts)
• Why the novel is set following the English Civil War
• Orchids in The Lady's Slipper
• Reading from The Lady's Slipper
• The Women of Samuel Pepys' Diaries series and the trilogy of novels inspired by them
• Women in 17th-century theater
• Researching the 17th century
• How to make a novel "compulsively readable"

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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

This website contains affiliate links. If you use these links to make a purchase, I may earn a commission. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

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Are you enjoying The Art In Fiction Podcast? Consider giving us a small donation so we can continue bringing you interviews with your favorite arts-inspired novelists.  Click this link to donate: https://ko-fi.com/artinfiction.

Also, check out Art In Fiction at https://www.artinfiction.com and explore 2500+ novels inspired by the arts in 11 categories: Architecture, Dance, Decorative Arts, Film, Literature, Music, Photography, Textile Arts, Theater, Visual Arts, & Other.

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...

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Join me as I chat with Lilianne Milgrom, author of L’Origine, an intriguing novel about the creation and history of L’Origine du Monde by Gustave Courbet, one of the world’s most provocative paintings.

Highlights:

• Why Courbet's L'Origine du Monde is still raising eyebrows after 150 years
• The effect of the painting on Lilianne
• Gustave Courbet and realism
• How reactions to L'Origine du Monde are like those to a Rorschach test
• Is the painting odious or empowering?
• The Paris Commune of 1870 and its role in L'Origine
• A reading from the novel
• Advice for authors

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View L'Origine du Monde at the Musée d'Orsay.

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

This website contains affiliate links. If you use these links to make a purchase, I may earn a commission. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

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Are you enjoying The Art In Fiction Podcast? Consider giving us a small donation so we can continue bringing you interviews with your favorite arts-inspired novelists.  Click this link to donate: https://ko-fi.com/artinfiction.

Also, check out Art In Fiction at https://www.artinfiction.com and explore 2500+ novels inspired by the arts in 11 categories: Architecture, Dance, Decorative Arts, Film, Literature, Music, Photography, Textile Arts, Theater, Visual Arts, & Other.

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...

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Meet Alex George, author of The Paris Hours,  a tour de force of a novel told over the course of one day in 1927 about four ordinary people whose stories are as extraordinary as the glorious city they inhabit.

Highlights:

• The genesis of The Paris Hours: Marcel Proust and his maid
• How is a writer like a magpie? 
• Paris in the 1920s: incorporating the tapestry of history into a novel
• The roles played in the novel by a panoply of stars, including Josephine Baker, Maurice Ravel, Ernest Hemingway, and more
• Reading from The Paris Hours
• The Unbound Book Festival
• What's the one thing that all authors must do?

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Alex George's website

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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

This website contains affiliate links. If you use these links to make a purchase, I may earn a commission. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

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Also, check out Art In Fiction at https://www.artinfiction.com and explore 2500+ novels inspired by the arts in 11 categories: Architecture, Dance, Decorative Arts, Film, Literature, Music, Photography, Textile Arts, Theater, Visual Arts, & Other.

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...

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Meet Donna DiGiuseppe, author of Lady in Ermine, a stunning biographical novel about Renaissance painter Sofonisba Anguissola.

Highlights:

• Lady in Ermine is "a vivid portrait of a talented woman who defied the conventions of her times." Find out why!
• Who is Sofonisba Anguissola and why is she in the news lately?
• Discover why Giorgio Vasari, who wrote Lives of the Artists, considered Sofonisba's work worthy of the descriptor "invenzione".
• The Prado exhibition in 2019 that expanded Sofonisba's popularity
• Is it true there were "no women artists" back in the day? 
• Why Donna DiGiuseppe chose Sofonisba Anguissola as the subject of her debut novel
• Was Sofonisba the Forrest Gump of her time?
• Why was Sofonisba considered one of the premier portraitists of the 16th century?
• A reading from Lady in Ermine
• What did Donna DiGiuseppe learn from writing Lady in Ermine ?
• What's the next novel about?

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Donna DiGiuseppe's website and more information about Sofonisba Anguissola: www.sofonisba.net

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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

This website contains affiliate links. If you use these links to make a purchase, I may earn a commission. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

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Are you enjoying The Art In Fiction Podcast? Consider giving us a small donation so we can continue bringing you interviews with your favorite arts-inspired novelists.  Click this link to donate: https://ko-fi.com/artinfiction.

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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...

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Meet C. C. Humphreys, author of several novels listed on Art In Fiction, including Shakespeare's Rebel, Chasing the Wind, and Vlad: The Last Confession.

Highlights:

• What is an adventure writer of historical fiction?
• The genesis of Shakespeare's Rebel: "Hamlet and swords" 
• Challenges of depicting real people such as Shakespeare, Elizabeth I, Lord Essex, and Sir Robert Cecil
• A reading from Shakespeare's Rebel
• How research can be a "springboard for the imagination"
• Art, aviation, and adventure in Chasing the Wind
• Who was Vlad the Impaler (Vlad: The Last Confession) and was he misunderstood?
• Find out about new adventures through the unicorn tapestries in the Tapestry Trilogy.
• What is the one thing aspiring authors should do?
• What's next for C. C. Humphreys?

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C. C. Humphreys's website: http://www.authorchrishumphreys.com/

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

This website contains affiliate links. If you use these links to make a purchase, I may earn a commission. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

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Are you enjoying The Art In Fiction Podcast? Consider giving us a small donation so we can continue bringing you interviews with your favorite arts-inspired novelists.  Click this link to donate: https://ko-fi.com/artinfiction.

Also, check out Art In Fiction at https://www.artinfiction.com and explore 2500+ novels inspired by the arts in 11 categories: Architecture, Dance, Decorative Arts, Film, Literature, Music, Photography, Textile Arts, Theater, Visual Arts, & Other.

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...

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Welcome to The Art In Fiction Podcast!

Meet Charlie Lovett, bestselling author of 5 novels listed on Art In Fiction,  including his most recent, Escaping Dreamland.

Highlights:

• What are bibliophiles and why do they interest Charlie so much?
• Genesis of Escaping Dreamland: what's with those children's series novels?
• Who really wrote the children's series so many readers grew up with (Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, et al)?
• Elements in Escaping Dreamland : New York, secrets, children's books, writers, and more
• Every good story starts with a question: what question launched Escaping Dreamland?
• Reading from Escaping Dreamland:  Alice Gold: Girl Inventor
• Genesis of The Lost Book of the Grail: books, cathedrals, digital vs. analog, and history
• The intriguing character of Arthur Prescott and his dislike of academic committee meetings (among other things)
• Use of the physical structure of the cathedral to hang the novel's plot on
• Why Jane Austen in First Impressions?
•  Writing the avuncular relationship between a man and a woman
• A favorite Jane Austen novel? 
• The process of structuring a novel
• Inside the Writer's Studio - Charlie's podcast
• What's next for Charlie Lovett?

Press Play now & be sure to check out Charlie Lovett's novels Escaping Dreamland, The Lost Book of the Grail, First Impressions, The Bookman's Tale, and The Further Adventures of Ebenezer Scrooge, in the Literature category on Art In Fiction.

Charlie Lovett's website
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Music Credits
Intro: Paganology, performed by The Paul Plimley Trio; composed by Gregg Simpson
Ad:     Celtic Calypso, performed by Lunar Adventures; composed by Gregg Simpson. 

This website contains affiliate links. If you use these links to make a purchase, I may earn a commission. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

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Are you enjoying The Art In Fiction Podcast? Consider giving us a small donation so we can continue bringing you interviews with your favorite arts-inspired novelists.  Click this link to donate: https://ko-fi.com/artinfiction.

Also, check out Art In Fiction at https://www.artinfiction.com and explore 2500+ novels inspired by the arts in 11 categories: Architecture, Dance, Decorative Arts, Film, Literature, Music, Photography, Textile Arts, Theater, Visual Arts, & Other.

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...