The following is a guest post by Gino Bardi, author of The Cow in the Doorway. Every now and then, a reader will approach me and pay me a gigantic compliment. “You have a terrific imagination,” he or she will say. I will nod appreciatively, and thank them profusely. I love compliments. Even when they are dead wrong. My imagination is probably no better than their own, and possibly much worse. What…
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Publishing’s New Labyrinth
The following is a guest post by Jeffrey Marshall, author of Little Miss Sure Shot. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com It ain’t what it used to be. Truer words were never spoken of the book publishing industry, and for outsiders, it’s truly bewildering. The variety of channels and outlets has mushroomed into something huge and almost…
A Passion for Paris by David Downie
A Passion for Paris by David Downie takes us on a tour of Paris from the Père-Lachaise Cemetery to Montmartre. Instead of writing about the famous American expatriates of the 1920s, the author chose to shed light on the Romantics of the 19th century: Félix Nadar, Victor Hugo, Charles Beaudelaire, Honoré de Balzac, George Sand, Eugène Delacroix, Alexandre Dumas, Émile Zola, etc. David Downie guides us through the City of Light to…
An Untimely Frost by Ted Morrissey
Jefferson Wheelwright, an American author in a tour of Europe, hopes to meet the famous authoress Margaret Haeley while in London. His first attempt is unsuccessful but he eventually befriends her after rescuing her servant, Thursday, who broke his leg. However, Jefferson quickly discovers that Margaret has been removed from the world since the drowning of her husband in a boating accident 17 years earlier. In fact, she seems to be suffering from…
No, You Can’t Have Her Number
The following is a guest post by Mark Willen, author of Hawke’s Point. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. I should have seen it coming. There were hints, but I made light of them, and took just a few tentative steps to deflect them. It wasn’t enough, and my problem persists: Readers of my recently published novel,…