Monet & Oscar,
by
Joe Byrd

(historical fiction)

 Published March 10, 2021
at Giverny Books

300 pages

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Joe Byrd:
“I first found Claude Monet while sitting among 300 students in a college Humanities 101 class.
He spoke to me.
He told me about color, brush strokes, and impressions rather than photographic reproduction of live scenes.
He became a lifelong friend who helped a boy from West Virginia’s coal region learn about art.

Twenty-five years later, I began researching Claude Monet.
After reading and re-reading the art books I had collected, I purchased more in-depth biographies.
Most notably, Daniel Wildenstein’s “Monet: The Triumph of Impressionism,” a four-volume set that contains every one of Monet’s paintings plus an extensive history of Monet’s life.
Ross King’s “Mad Enchantment” was another revealing account of Monet’s final years.
I also attended Japanese woodblock print exhibitions in San Francisco and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, and every art museum in Paris and many across the US.

At last, I was getting a clearer picture of Monet, the times in which he worked, and his fellow painters.
This thirty-year research project led me to commit to writing a book about Monet, his personal life, and his family.
After ten years of writing and rewriting the opening scene in my head and the pandemic lockdown hit, I finally sat down to write.

I chose to write a novel instead of a biography because fiction makes history easier to understand.
This historically accurate novel is the result of my years of discovery.
I hope you will feel my effort has been worthwhile and that your time has been well spent reading “Monet & Oscar: Essence of Light.”

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L’Origine:
The secret life of the world’s most erotic masterpiece,
by
Lilianne Milgrom

(historical fiction)

 Published October 12, 2021
at Girl Friday Books

292 pages

A radio play based on the book
will be aired in November 2023!

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NB: this is a historical novel, no explicit scenes

BOOK TRAILER

Paris-born
Lilianne Milgrom
is an internationally acclaimed artist, award-winning author,
blogger and freelance art journalist.
She grew up in Australia
and has lived for extended periods in Israel
and the United States where she currently resides in Fairfax, Virginia.
She is a graduate of Melbourne University and the San Francisco Academy of Art.
Milgrom spent a decade researching and writing
L’Origine: The Secret Life of the World’s Most Erotic Masterpiece.
Her debut novel has been awarded six literary honors
and she was selected as a semi-finalist for the pilot
of a new reality TV series America’s Next Great Author.

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1 US resident will receive a print copy
1 resident from any other country will receive a digital copy

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“A Public of Two”:
radio play
Adaptation from a chapter of
Katherine’s Wish

March 8, 2022  YORICK RADIO PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS
“A PUBLIC OF TWO”
in celebration of International Women’s Day

“A Public of Two” has been adapted from a chapter of Katherine’s Wish, a novel by Linda Lappin, dealing with the last five years of writer Katherine Mansfield’s life. 

In the summer of 1920, Katherine Mansfield received a frequent visitor to her London home: Virginia Woolf.  Once a week, Woolf took the train from Richmond, disembarking at Hampstead Heath, and walked the rest of the way to Mansfield’s house at 2 Portland Villas. In Mansfield’s studio overlooking the garden, the two women would discuss the craft of writing, while sipping tea prepared down in the kitchen by Ida Baker, Mansfield’s companion. Keen fascination with each other’s work and life and a sharp rivalry united them.  At summer’s end, Mansfield traveled to France seeking a cure for her tuberculosis. Katherine and Virginia would not meet again. Mansfield died in France, outside Paris at the Prieuré of Fontainebleau in January 1923.

Adapted by the author and produced by Rosemary Beech, this radio play features Ellisha O’Donnell in the role of Katherine Mansfield; Rosemary Beech in the role of Virginia Woolf; Alice Gold in the role of Ida Baker; and Jonty O’ Callaghan in the role of John Middleton Murry, Mansfield’s husband.

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Linda Lappin has published four novels:
The Etruscan (Wynkin de Worde, 2004);
Katherine’s Wish, dealing with the life of Katherine Mansfield (Wordcraft, 2008),
shortlisted for Foreward Book of the Year
and IPPY gold medal winner in historical fiction;
Signatures in Stone: A Bomarzo Mystery, winner of the Daphne DuMaurier Award
from RWA for the best mystery novel of 2013;
and Loving Modigliani: The Afterlife of Jeanne Hébuterne.
She is also the author of The Soul of Place: Ideas and Exercises for Conjuring the Genius Loci,
winner in 2015 of the gold medal in creativity in the Nautilus Book Awards.
She lives in Rome.

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