Howler Alert! I discovered Wilde’s series by accident when I was doing some checking on Austen Fan Fiction for the JASNA Bibliography. What a fabulous pseudonym! I mostly enjoyed this entry in the Cozy Mystery genre and found it delightful, except for one ENORMOUS Howler. If you are a fan of historical mysteries, femaleContinue reading “A Useful Woman by Darcie Wilde”
Author Archives: Robin Henry
Book Club for Writers
The Read Like a Writer Book Club begins this month! It will feature book discussions of great novels both past and present through the lens of a writer. We’ll deconstruct their work looking for lessons in craft, style, and story, so we can apply those lessons to our own works in progress. Our first bookContinue reading “Book Club for Writers”
Review of Lucy Foley’s The Paris Apartment
Full disclosure, I received an eGalley of this book prior to publication in exchange for a review. Lucy Foley has a talent for a certain kind of Thriller. She collects a group of entitled, mostly unlikeable characters in an isolated location, makes sure there are plenty of secrets nobody wants revealed, empowers an unreliable narratorContinue reading “Review of Lucy Foley’s The Paris Apartment”
Loglines as Revision Tools
Here’s a handy tip that you may find useful when thinking about starting revisions. See if you can create a logline that encapsulates your story. If you can, it should hang together and you have the skeleton on which to assemble your draft. If you can’t, that may indicate that something is missing in theContinue reading “Loglines as Revision Tools”
Reflection on the Chawton House Reading Group, women in history and Mary Eleanor Bowes…
When Covid started and my in-person book clubs and groups started canceling, I went looking for something inspiring. What I found was the Chawton House Reading Group. For the uninitiated, Chawton House is the home of not only Jane Austen’s brother and in the same village as Jane Austen’s House Museum, but it is alsoContinue reading “Reflection on the Chawton House Reading Group, women in history and Mary Eleanor Bowes…”
Books about Writing that I enjoyed in 2021…
Are you looking for something to inspire you to write? Here is a list of favorite books and web pages about writing that I read in 2021. I am also including one about women’s history, since there were a bunch of inspiring women in it. Not least, Eleanor Roosevelt. Alberts, Laurie. Showing & Telling: LearnContinue reading “Books about Writing that I enjoyed in 2021…”
Throwback Thursday AND Austenalia…First Impressions by Charlie Lovett
This review was originally written in 2014 Jane Austen fans are in for a treat in this literary mystery cum romance modeled on the beloved novels of Jane Austen. One nice twist is the addition of the parallel storyline about Jane Austen’s fictitious relationship with an older clergyman who helps encourage her writing aspirations. ManyContinue reading “Throwback Thursday AND Austenalia…First Impressions by Charlie Lovett”
Revising is hard!
Revising is a difficult process, for many reasons. We are frequently so close to the topic/material, that it is hard to see it fresh. That is why a lot of advice is to let things sit for a while after you finish a draft, so you can look at it with new eyes. You shouldContinue reading “Revising is hard!”
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
This is the second book I have read by Kate Quinn and I am going to be in the minority here when I say I found it mediocre at best. I read The Alice Network a couple of years ago for a book club and didn’t really like it, either . The spying plots inContinue reading “The Rose Code by Kate Quinn”
Throwback Thursday: Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
In honor of the Netflix series, which by the way is just as dreadful as the book, I pulled out this old chestnut from 2017. Roasted… This was billed as psychological suspense, so I got sucked in. Though it has moments of brilliance, in the end, it falls flat, partially because the main character isContinue reading “Throwback Thursday: Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough”
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