Welcome back author Diane Scott Lewis!!
What would you say are your strengths as
an author?
Accurate research and attention to detail.
And I’m always willing to learn.
How often do you write, and do you write
using a strict routine?
I write every morning, all morning. I pick
this time because my mind is at its sharpest. Though with our new puppy, things
get hectic.
Five years from now, where do you see
yourself as a writer?
Several best sellers and a home in Tahiti.
Actually, to be respected for my craft and a steady string of well-sold novels.
If you could offer once piece of advice to
a novice writer, what would it be?
Perfect your craft. Take workshops, attend
conferences, read books on writing and grammar (so many writers don’t even know
the basic format for dialogue punctuation). And never give up.
What would you consider
to be the best compliment a reader could give your book?
That they loved my
characters and, since I write historicals, my story put them right in the era
with no historical bloopers.
Which books and authors do you read for pleasure? Is there an author
that inspires you?
I read Katheryn Pym, Anita
Davison, Colleen Donnelly and Julie Howard. Pym's historic research inspires
me. She puts you right into the era of her characters.
ESCAPE THE REVOLUTION
Forced from France by her devious guardian on the eve of the French Revolution,
Countess Bettina Jonquiere must deliver an important package to further the
royalist cause. In England, she discovers the package is full of blank papers,
the address false and she’s penniless. Stranded in a Cornish village, Bettina
toils in a bawdy tavern and falls in love with a man who may have murdered his
unfaithful wife. Tracked by ruthless revolutionaries, she must uncover the
truth about her father’s murder—and her lover’s guilt—while her life is
threatened.
(Historical
Novels Reviews: Simply Brilliant)
HOSTAGE TO THE REVOLUTION
Sequel to Escape the
Revolution. In 1796, ruined countess Bettina Jonquiere leaves England after
the reported drowning of her lover, Everett.
In New Orleans she struggles to establish a new life for her children.
Soon a ruthless Frenchman demands the money stolen by her father at the start
of the French Revolution. Bettina is forced on a dangerous mission to France to
recover the funds. She unravels dark family secrets, but will she find the man
she lost as well?
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