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Bathsheba and Ahithophel

I've been tickled pink with most of the reviews of BATHSHEBA as they trickle in, but I'm always a little chagrinned when someone takes issue with something I wrote in the book.   For instance, I read a review last night where a woman said that "nowhere in the Bible...

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Bom: The Writing (Bathsheba: Reluctant Beauty)

Writing Bathsheba was a bit of a challenge because of the middle. Photo: writing in college.  🙂 Most novelists struggle with the "sagging middle" in the best of circumstances because it's easy to let the tension level fall.  In Bathsheba, however, there WAS NO...

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BOM: The Research (Bathsheba)

Once you've written one historical novel about a biblical character, a great deal of the research is done--after that, it's just a matter of refreshing your memory and digging into story particulars.  Because I've written biblical historical fiction before (Dreamers,...

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BOM: The germination of the idea

Some books spring into the mind from out of the blue, and some, like this, are structured into a series.  Since I had already decided that the second book would be Bathsheba--a woman who's beauty clearly got her into trouble--then the idea was simple--tell her story...

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Alone in Las Vegas, or How I Lost my Hope

I blogged every single day for about five years, then ran out of things to say.  So now I only blog when I'm inspired.  🙂 Which I am, at the moment. ***** I don't know about you, but lately  I've found it easy to look around and think that I'm living through the...

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