Art In Fiction

Send us Fan Mail Join me as I chat with Margaret Ann Philbrick, author of two novels listed on Art In FIction: House of  Honor listed in the Visual Arts category and A Minor listed in the Music category. View the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/vUuYVDmYdDQ Genesis of House of Honor Obession with the life and work of Caravaggio Heist of Caravaggio's Nativity (still unsolved) as inspiration...

Send us Fan Mail Join me as I chat with Margaret Porter, author of four novels listed on Art In FIction, including A Change of Location, The Limits of Limelight , and Beautiful Invention: A Novel of Hedy Lamarr listed in the Film category, and The Myrtle Wand listed in the Dance category. View the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ijPu_SVzY1c Why switch to a new genre - "romcom" - from...

Send us Fan Mail Join me as I chat with Zoe Disigny, author of The Art of Traveling Strangers, listed in the Visual Arts category on Art In Fiction. View the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/dYPEJThuFqk Inspiration for The Art of Traveling Strangers , based on an experience Zoe had while hosting art tours of Europe in the 1980s How her background as an art history professor helped her write her...

Send us Fan Mail Join me as I chat with Barbara Quick, author of Vivaldi's Virgins and What Disappears, both listed in the Visual Arts category on Art In Fiction. View the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/nYq1nLL4xv4 Inspiration for What Disappears going back several decades to when Barbara was just 22 years old Revisiting old work after it's "ripened" The role of idential tw...

Send us Fan Mail Join me as I chat with Linda Moore, author of Attribution and Five Days in Bogotá, both listed in the Visual Arts category on Art In Fiction. View the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/X33FE57ZDk4  How Linda's background as the owner of an art gallery and her experience at an art fair in Colombia in the 1990s helped inspire her to write Five Days in Bogotá The political situ...

Send us Fan Mail Listen in as I chat with Denny S. Bryce and Eliza Knight, co-authors of Can't We Be Friends: A Novel of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe listed in the Music category on Art In Fiction. View the Video on YouTube How Denny & Eliza decided to write their novel about Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe Research tidbits that led them into the story How both Ella Fitzgerald an...

Send us Fan Mail Join  me as I chat with Daisy Goodwin, author of Diva listed in the Music category on Art In Fiction. View the Video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/dYCDxSyXwAU Highlights include: Why Daisy chose to write a novel about Maria Callas, the great opera singer The nature of the female genius What's a diva? Writing about a real person; getting into their head Maria Callas's diff...

Send us Fan Mail Join  me as I chat with Nancy Bilyeau, author of several arts-inspired novels on Art In Fiction, including The Orchid Hour about a speakeasy in 1923 Jazz-Age New York and listed in the Theater category on Art In Fiction. View the Video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/CvIYJYb-PfQ Highlights include: Why Nancy set her latest novel in Prohibition-era New York The role played by the Ital...

Send us Fan Mail 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. View the Video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/aIofW073t_U Highlights include: Why write a novel about Hattie McDaniel, famous for playing Mammy in Gone with the Wind and being the f...

Send us Fan Mail 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. NEW on The Art In Fiction Podcast: Watch my interview on YouTube! Highlights include: Summary of The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard ;  role played by the Battle of Verseilles in Nove...

Send us Fan Mail 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. NEW on The Art In Fiction Podcast: Watch my interview on YouTube ! Highlights include: Inspiration for The Court...

Send us Fan Mail 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: W...

Send us Fan Mail 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 and The 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 an...

Send us Fan Mail 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 M...

Send us Fan Mail 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 Prohib...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 Rob...

Send us Fan Mail 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 f...

Send us Fan Mail 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 populari...

Send us Fan Mail 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&...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 ar...

Send us Fan Mail 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'...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 nov...