By Melissa Luttmann
Don’t you just love the movie Gone with the Wind? The beautiful costumes, the intriguing heroine, the quotable lines…it’s a great work of fiction. And I wish that more people would take notice of those last three words: work of fiction. Gone with the Wind is a delightful movie, but not every detail [...]
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By Carey Wallace
Half-way through writing the first draft of The Blind Contessa’s New Machine, a historical fantasy based on the invention of the world’s first typewriter, I got stuck.
The actual facts of the historical story had practically begged to become a novel: a beautiful Italian noblewoman, gone blind in the flower of her youth. [...]
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