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Why do I write historical fiction? I once thought it was an expression of my love for past worlds. However, in light of the unsettled nature of our present world, I wonder if my first assumption still stands. Writing of past worlds is more than just wanting to live in them. It's the fact that they've already been lived in, that the outcome of whatever crises plaguing that time have been concluded and humanity has survived. It's difficult walking along a darkened path with no idea of where it will end. Lately I've come to see it's rather comforting to cloak one's self in cloth woven long ago. One day this today will have been lived, the outcomes of our current crises concluded, the future fodder for some historical fiction writer's pen. So for now come enter those distant worlds with me and leave the present behind, if even for just a little while...
Chalange The Wind:
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* 2004 EPPIE - Best Historical Fiction
* The National Writers Association - Florida
* Panhandle Professional Writers - Texas
* CNW/FFWA - Florida State Writers
* American Pen Women - San Francisco
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DEAD LAWYERS - (All Rights Available)
Dead Lawyers, Mainstream/humor: 90,000 words: Antinous Maricus Philippus, once
distinguished Roman advocate, cursed by the goddess Justitia and quite dead for a very long time,
must win one case before he can go onto the Elysian Fields. Among the more notable cases he's
been given to defend since being dead are two of Henry the Eighth's wives, the two who were
beheaded, and Joan of Arc always comes to mind. So when he is assigned waitress, Kate
Wender’s straight-forward small claims suit to reclaim her refrigerator from her no good,
chiropractor ex-boyfriend, Antinous believes the cosmos has finally given him a deserved
break--that is, until Kate’s ex- boyfriend is shot dead. After Kate is framed by the Las Vegas mob
for the murder, Antinous must clear his seemingly scatterbrained client of the crime before she’s
sent off across the River Styx by the same thugs who dispatched her former squeeze. From the
card tables of 1970s Las Vegas to the Queen Mary in Long Beach, Antinous must discover who’s
responsible for a pile of dirty dealings or be forever trapped between life and death.
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