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I’m squirreling away at the Original Impulse office, preparing for the launch of my novel Chasing Sylvia Beach. I feel kind of like the character in Mission Impossible. You know, how he’s working the touch screen, waving his hands here and there, manipulating all the pieces of his project. It’s like that. Lots of pieces. [Read more...] Over the twelve years it took to write Chasing Sylvia Beach, I developed a multi-pronged approach in order to depict a historical period accurately. If you’re writing a historical novel, you may consider some of the seven methods I used to show Paris, 1937, in all her fading glory. [Read more...] So let’s play and imagine what Sylvia would blog about. I bet Sylvia would put up a blog because she thought she should, but perhaps it would be spottily populated. [Read more...] In the mid-1930s Paris, the Golden Age of the City of Lights was waning. The Great Depression was in full effect and Hitler’s power was on the rise. Americans were ditching the once-carefree lifestyle of Paris and fleeing for home. But Sylvia Beach, the owner of Shakespeare and Company bookstore, stayed. [Read more...] Dear Sylvia, I’m so glad you were born one hundred twenty-five years ago. I’m writing this letter to honor your life and to express gratitude for the brave choices you’ve made. It’s the choices we make that make us, and so many of your choices have inspired my own actions. [Read more...] Who’s in the novel Chasing Sylvia Beach? Some famous authors are miffed to have been left out: Chasing Sylvia Beach launch: June 22nd, 2012. It’s hard to imagine now, but mass-market paperbacks were only introduced globally in 1935 by Penguin Books. Sylvia, like us with our electronic books, was forced to stay on top of the changing reading landscape so she could offer her customers the latest in reading innovation. [Read more...] Sylvia Beach was the kind of woman I want to know: curious, brave, and above all, devoted to books and people who write them. Her life’s work was to share a love of books with others. She brought readers and writers together in her small Paris bookshop, Shakespeare and Company, which she ran from 1919 [Read more...] One of the biggest complaints I hear about self-published books is not that they’re poorly written. Or that the cover design is lacking. The biggest beef is that the books are rife with typos. When I hear that, I cock my head like a confused dog. I ask myself, “Didn’t the author hire an editor [Read more...] I’m sitting in front of my typewriter, in my apartment in Denver. It’s 1994, and I’m embarking on my writing life. Working on an article, I fervently hope that an editor will accept it. Things sure have changed for writers, haven’t they? Fast-forward seventeen years, and we’re seeing writers freely publishing on their own and [Read more...] In 1919, young American Sylvia Beach moved to Paris and opened a bookshop, Shakespeare and Company. She’d been to Europe with her family as a girl and as a young adult, yearned to live in Paris. When I read about this pioneer in Noel Riley Fitch’s Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation, I found a female [Read more...] |
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