General Fiction – Allison M. Azulay

Movie to Book

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:14 July 2020
Post category:General Fiction / Readers / Writers
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In a previous blog post, I mention a specific actor and film that inspired one of my characters. Creativity is said to come from putting existing elements together in a…

Robert Harris

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:7 July 2020
Post category:Featured Author / General Fiction / History / Readers / Writers
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Pompeii is an historical novel through which the reader lives the last days of that doomed city of luxury and its neighbouring community, Herculaneum. The signs are there: Wells and…

Authors’ Politics

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:2 June 2020
Post category:General Fiction / Opinion / Readers / Writers
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Warnings to authors to keep their politics quiet proliferate, these days. I suppose some fear that other authors and followers will shun them on social and agents and publishers may…

Flash in the Pan or Slow Burn

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:19 May 2020
Post category:General Fiction / Readers / Writers
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I have noticed an interesting trend: Knowing I am an author, people have divulged their own reading habits and a surprising number have confessed they prefer very short reads. "Not…

Nancy Thayer

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:31 March 2020
Post category:Featured Author / General Fiction / Readers / Romance

Whether through General Fiction or Romance, Nancy Thayer portrays unforgettable characters, male and female, young and old, that you would like to meet. Her Hot Flash Club series has you…

Exotic Locales

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:24 March 2020
Post category:General Fiction / Readers / Writers

For a reader, unusual settings may represent an escape from current reality, a sort of virtual vacation to a place that may be out of reach in the real world.…

Jennifer Robson

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:3 March 2020
Post category:Featured Author / General Fiction / History / Readers / Romance / Women's Fiction

Well researched is the first description that comes to mind pertaining to my introduction to Jennifer Robson's writing: Somewhere in France, a story of men and women working behind the…

Description

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:28 January 2020
Post category:General Fiction / Readers / Writers

Some authors are especially good at describing people and scenes so that a reader can imagine vividly the setting, the characters, and the action. Details set a mood as well…

Diana Gabaldon

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:7 January 2020
Post category:Adventure / Featured Author / General Fiction / History / Readers / Women's Fiction / Writers

Given the popularity of the television series, the fanatical followers in groups like "Outlanders in Ontario," "Outmander," and many more, one would think that everyone on the planet is familiar…

Flash Fiction

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:31 December 2019
Post category:General Fiction / Readers / Writers

Life has become frantic for many of us, and while publishers may demand books with a page count that approaches a thousand, readers may balk at starting such a tome. …

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I NOTICED THE SWAGGER FIRST: that arrogant saunter that said, “I’m irresistible and I know it.” He was good-looking, yes—as emphasized by the tight jeans that displayed every muscle and more than hinted at one in particular. And the chambray shirt open to show off a broad chest matted with jet hair that proclaimed his masculinity.

–excerpt from Bad Twin

GINETTE LAY STARING into darkness in the low cot by the grand canopied bed in which Lady Barton snored softly. To her surprise and dismay, the old woman had roused from her fireside dozing when she entered the room and had insisted on regaling her with more tales of the foibles and weaknesses of the aristocracy as Ginette helped her undress.

Thinking back on it, she realized there had been a subtle urgency in the manner of the viscountess. Indeed, now that she recalled her months as maid-cum-companion, she recognized that she had felt yet dismissed a sense of impendence. At first, she had wondered was it she who anticipated something vaguely threatening, or was it Lady Barton who expected some event? Now, a certainty filled her that Lady Barton’s choosing to employ her signified much more than she had guessed.

But what?

–excerpt from Propositions and Proposals