Writers – Allison M. Azulay

Exotic Locales

Post Author:Allison Azulay
Post published:24 March 2020
Post Category:General Fiction / Readers / Writers
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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.…

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…

Movies and Television

Post Author:Allison Azulay
Post published:14 January 2020
Post Category:Readers / Writers

We've all seen movies based on books: The Harry Potter series is a spectacularly successful example, as is the film series from the Tolkien novels. Thinking about it recently, I…

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. …

Nigel Tranter

Post Author:Allison Azulay
Post published:19 December 2019
Post Category:Adventure / Featured Author / History / Readers / Writers

Nigel Tranter makes Scottish history so interesting you wish his books had been part of the school curriculum. In The Clansman, he explores the persona of Roy Roy and the…

Novel ideas

Post Author:Allison Azulay
Post published:17 December 2019
Post Category:Readers / Writers

Having trouble coming up with a story idea? Non-fiction writers have an advantage: They write what they know, whether it be how to sew a quilt or how to survive…

Tales Dark and Light

Post Author:Allison Azulay
Post published:3 December 2019
Post Category:Readers / Writers

Terms like "Chick Lit" and "Romance" suggest light reading, though these genres include serious stories as well. Other book categories automatically call up visions of brooding characters, bleak settings, and…

Jack Whyte

Post Author:Allison Azulay
Post published:26 November 2019
Post Category:Featured Author / General Fiction / History / Readers / Writers

From Scotland and now living in Canada, Jack Whyte writes fictionalized accounts of historical events and thereby brings long-dead figures to life. In Uther, he describes a realistic Camulod (Camelot)…

Dialogue

Post Author:Allison Azulay
Post published:19 November 2019
Post Category:Readers / Writers

One online guru I know has advised writers to avoid using a lot of dialogue in a book. But being a person reliant on auditory as well as visual input,…

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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