The best part about writing a novel based on real life history? Making up a story around facts and images from the past. This is a lithograph of Washington Square in NYC. In MRS. POE, Poe and Frances Osgood gaze upon the room occupied by Samuel Morse. from Lynn Cullen’s Facebook Wall http://ift.tt/1fIkzGB
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116 Waverly Place, just down the street from Washington Square in NYC: Poe and Frances Osgood walked up these very steps to attend the forerunner of the modern book club. Gives me a chill! from Lynn Cullen’s Facebook Wall http://ift.tt/1ggdhZW
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Insights from my friend Nancy Bilyeau. Historical Fiction: A Conversation Between Bruce Holsinger and Nancy Bilyeauhttp://ift.tt/mBKekPNovelists Bruce Holsinger and Nancy Bilyeau discuss the joys and pitfalls of scrupulously researching the past and then turning it into fiction. from Lynn Cullen’s Facebook Wall http://ift.tt/1ohJLwO
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As Poe found out, bird stories can strike a chord. Timeline PhotosOn this day in 1963, Alfred Hitchcock's THE BIRDS has its world peremiere in New York. Fact: the sound of reel-to-reel tape being run backward and forward was used to help create the frightening bird squawking sounds in the film. http://ow.ly/v5hNo from Lynn Cullen’s
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Excellent article, Mitchell James Kaplan. "Publishers still respect the fact that novel writing is a solitary and extremely labor-intensive endeavor." –Amen! The Record of What We Believe: Mitchell James Kaplan on Historical Fictionhttp://ift.tt/hFWySeFascinated with the history of religions, Mitchell James Kaplan is currently at work on a second novel, set primarily in Rome and Judea
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It's hard to watch myself, but you can, if you want. 🙂 Lynn Cullen talks Edgar Allen Poe and MRS. POEwww.youtube.comLearn more about Mrs. Poe at http://ift.tt/OSASdk Author Lynn Cullen talks about her novel… from Lynn Cullen’s Facebook Wall http://ift.tt/1fgM4Xm
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Six months ago, I was obviously in a state of bliss at the launch of MRS. POE. (The more level-headed one in the picture is my editor.) Now, in a week, MRS. POE comes out in paperback. Thanks to your support, my friends, this has been a life-changing adventure. Thanks to you, I will actually
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Learn more about Mrs. Poe athttp://books.simonandschuster.com/Mrs… Author Lynn Cullen talks about her novel MRS. POE, which explores the likely affair between Edgar Allen Poe and poet Frances Osgood.
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"Mme. Poe"? I just heard that "Mrs. Poe" will be translated into French. That makes nine foreign language translations now. I wonder how you say "Mrs. Poe" in Turkish? from Lynn Cullen’s Facebook Wall http://ift.tt/1nF4fza
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