by Rebecca | Sep 23, 2015 | audrey and alice, characters, historical fiction, IRL, lifestyles of the rich and bookish, reader in chief, research, sensory overload, setting, summertime
On a warm, nearly cloudless day last week, I took a trip out to Sagamore Hill National Historic Site in Oyster Bay, NY. It wasn’t my first time there–I visited in September 2012, shortly after I found out that When Audrey Met Alice was going to become a...
by Rebecca | Aug 25, 2015 | books, covers, gratitude, gushing, i heart the beach, pairs well with a hammock, pretty pretty, sensory overload, Simon & Schuster, Summer of Lost and Found
Last week, the fantastic Mr. Schu helped me share the cover of Summer of Lost and Found! Check out the post here: http://mrschureads.blogspot.com/2015/08/cover-reveal-for-summer-of-lost-and.html And here’s the lovely cover! When I first saw the sketch from the...
by Rebecca | Jul 31, 2015 | balancing act, i heart the beach, in defense of lazy, IRL, pairs well with a hammock, relax, revising, sensory overload, slightly incoherent due to revision brain, Summer of Lost and Found, summertime, treat this post as evidence of procrastination
In my mind, summer is full of lazy days and long nights, salt breeze and shooting stars, fireflies and fireworks. It’s a time for reading in the sunshine, ideally with an ice-cream cone or a Popsicle dripping down one’s hand but not onto the...
by Rebecca | Oct 28, 2014 | audrey and alice, characters, debutanting, eventful, historical fiction, IRL, libraries, reader in chief, sensory overload, setting, White House
Last Friday, I did a young writers’ workshop at the New York Society Library, a beautiful and historic library that also happens to be my revising home-away-from-home. (Here’s a presidential-history tidbit about the NYSL: Our Founding Father George...
by Rebecca | May 13, 2014 | gushing, heaven aka bookstores, historical fiction, i heart the beach, I talk about food too much, IRL, olykoeks, sensory overload, setting, Uncategorized
Last week I hopped on a train and in a car to make my way to coastal North Carolina for a research trip. Here’s some of what I saw and did: I didn’t think I could get more excited about working on this story, but I did. There’s nothing quite like...
by Rebecca | Sep 25, 2012 | book people, confessions, eau de print, in which I embarrass myself, sensory overload, setting, talking about writing, verisimilitude, weird science, WIPspiration
We talk a lot about how some senses contribute to the writing process. The music playlists we listen to as we power through revisions, the pinboards we gaze at to visually inspire our WIPs, the chocolate we savor to help us deal with bad news, even the way our fingers...
