Tag Archives: historical fiction

SIT A SPELL

Posted on August 14, 2018 by Veronica Knox

PLEASE BE SEATED… IT’S TIME FOR A GHOST STORY       In ‘TIME FALLS LIKE SNOW’ – book two of the Y/A ‘Bede Trilogy’ by V Knox, Bede Hall, an indignant stately home riddled with time portals, is once … Continue reading →

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THE REMAINS OF THE DAY

Posted on April 15, 2018 by Veronica Knox

            April 15 – 1452 The illegitimate son of a lawyer and a woman we know only as Catarina, is born in the town of Vinci, in Tuscany, Italy. The child’s unspectacular entrance into the … Continue reading →

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PEARL EARRINGS, A RED HAT, and A SMILE

Posted on August 2, 2017 by Veronica Knox

Be it an iconic image, a true representation, or a ‘tronie’, a face belies a thousand secrets A TRONIE: a face created from memory or a consummate sketch of several people and costumes that ‘stand in’ for no ‘one’ in … Continue reading →

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PITCHING ON A STORMY SEA

Posted on July 10, 2017 by Veronica Knox

The concept you pitch could turn out to be the story that cannot be named! I’m an indie author. And one thing I’ve learned, after pitching directly to agents at a writers conference, is that beauty is in the eye … Continue reading →

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WONDROUS & DISASTROUS

Posted on April 14, 2017 by Veronica Knox

APRIL 15 – A DAY TO REMEMBER Leonardo da Vinci was born – April 15, 1452         HMS Titanic sank – April 15, 1912 It’s uncanny that these are both subjects about which I’m most passionate. I … Continue reading →

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PARANORMAL – IS TOO STRONG A WORD

Posted on March 29, 2017 by Veronica Knox

BECAUSE LIFE IS ONE BIG X-FILE UFO = Unidentified Fictional Objectivity Paranormal has become a four-letter word for those of us who write in its general vicinity. But softer words may be used to describe a ‘stranger than fiction’ story … Continue reading →

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SO… I WALKED INTO THIS MUSEUM…

Posted on March 21, 2017 by Veronica Knox

… and I came out with a story. Or, to be more precise, it followed me home and shadowed me for three years. And now it’s coming up to the first anniversary, of self-publishing ‘THE UNTHINKABLE SHOES’, appropriately, the traditional … Continue reading →

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JUST ANOTHER TRICK IN THE WALL

Posted on February 22, 2017 by Veronica Knox

Sometimes a wall is meant to defend and protect. Sometimes a wall draws a line in the sand. Sometimes a line in the sand marks a point of no return. Often, if you’re lucky, the point of no return is … Continue reading →

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WHERE WERE YOU?

Posted on January 8, 2017 by Veronica Knox

If meditation is time travel, then I have been there with Leonardo and Sandro and Lisa. I brushed against their cloaks of country-rough sackcloth or city-thick velvet trimmed in fur, and run my fingers over the heavy embroidered stuff of … Continue reading →

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WALK THIS WAY

Posted on November 19, 2016 by Veronica Knox

Sometimes, to understand history, you must put yourself in another person’s shoes. Walk with me… Pretend for a moment that you are a master painter. You live in fifteenth-century Florence. It takes you over a year to complete a masterpiece. … Continue reading →

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