@stephmurraywrites
40something artist by day working on her first novel set in and around London in the days leading up to and following D-Day, 1944. Gigantic nerd about history, music, and other things. Mashed potato enthusiast. Alabama. She/her.
Anyone have any experience researching or have knowledge of how mortgages worked in 1940s London? I'm researching house cost right now and trying to be very realistic about where I can place my family 😅
#histfic #amrevising #writingcommunity #writesky
I'm back! Been quiet for a while but I promise I'm still alive. Fought the imposter syndrome by opening my revised outline yesterday to work on it a bit, refine it, make it better. Progress!
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Check out The Coffee Pot Book Club #BookOfTheWeek:
🌟Love Lost in Time by Cathie Dunn🌟
Discover an evocative dual-timeline tale of love, loss, and redemption set in sun-drenched Carcassonne!
thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2025/03/book...
#DualTimeline #HistoricalMystery #HistoricalFiction
A spine-chilling tale of mystery and dread. When curious Clara uncovers an ancient well in her grandmother’s abandoned Victorian home, she awakens voices from beyond… but can she free them without losing herself? 🕯️ #Horror #Mystery
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I bought a desktop microphone so I can dictate to Google Docs and hopefully help save my injured hand some pain. Voice Typing can't do everything, but holy hell--is dictating the solution to all my ADD writing woes? I should have done this years ago. #amrevising #writesky #writingcommunity
Judith Arnopp @jarnopp.bsky.social
Ever wondered about the role of women in the war of the roses?
Margaret Beaufort, Anne Neville, Elizabeth of York - Marguerite of Anjou coming soon!
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Here's my latest on what's happening inside NCI and NIH. I've seen emails and directives about a lot of this now. There's so much bad stuff.
it might be an age thing! If I listen to any music at all now while writing, it has to be wordless, like film scores etc. But I find it amusing that I can blast pop songs all day while working on my art
Human rights are not opinions.
no lie if we lost James Spann I don't know what I'd do with myself. I really feel for the folks in Huntsville though
I used to write to playlists but now I need absolute silence. The music is too distracting.
that's hilarious 😆I used to live in rural AL (in a small neighborhood! but rural) and I'd hear random gunfire all the time
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Get ready to be swept away into a wild adventure of romance & danger during #WW2.
"The words flowed smoothly off the page & grabbed my interest "
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eBook/Paperback/Audio
#HistoricalFiction #HistoricalRomance #womensfiction
Also I know I went silent for a while but first I was ill (med stepdown is not fun) and then my desktop was in pieces for a parts upgrade but I'm going to try and dig in and be more active again. Running a personal account + author account simultaneously is difficult for me 😆
feel like I've hit a brick wall in my search for thematic images/stock photos set during WW2 to use on social media for the book I'm working on; I've searched everywhere and they simply don't exist outside Arcangel which costs a fortune. Help??
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#historicalfiction
#writingcommunity
me looking at this Scottish cottage: the insides are covered in William Morris wallpaper!! 🤩🤩
Thanks again, I appreciate the advice 😊
Thanks for the reply! Do you know where I could find a researcher? I'm not looking for book cover images right now--I know where to find those--I'm just looking for images I can use on day-to-day Instagram posts.
Was she incredibly brave or incredibly stupid? Neither. Just a bookshop girl doing what she could against her country’s oppressors.
#booksky #bookclub #historicalfiction
The Silence In Between by Josie Ferguson
Fave reads of 2024 8/n 💙📚
The Silence in Between by Josie Ferguson @josieferguson.bsky.social
Wartime trauma reverberates down the generations as teenage Ellie tries to cross from East Berlin to West in 1961 to find her baby brother and win her troubled mother's love. #historicalfiction
fellow writers--having a hell of a time sourcing royalty-free thematic WW2 stock photos (people and objects alike) that don't cost an arm and a leg. Either I don't know how to word my search queries, or I'm looking in the wrong places. Any advice?
#histfic #historicalfiction #writercommunity
I'm sorry I missed this reply but thank you so much for the recs! I really appreciate it, I'm adding them to my TBR!
Was doing research yesterday and ended up on The British Newspaper Archive's website which would have been a boon...but unfortunately it's subscriber only. Which I am not opposed to at all, I'm just weighing cost/benefit. Sigh.
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Only 99p/99c!
A gripping #WW2 tale of love and espionage in Occupied France, based on Special Agent Nancy Wake.
"I thoroughly recommend this captivating read" 5-Stars
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#thrillers #BooksWorthReading #histfic
oh goodness. I have to pick?? I have so many individual track faves from a myriad of different scores, but if I had to go with an overall fave, it would probably be a tie between Return of the Jedi and Independence Day.
Hooray!
Sorry about that! Try again. It took me a minute to find the settings.
'Human Acts' by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith, published by Hogarth Books
This is a heavy, emotional read based on horrific true events.
#novel #historicalfiction #literatureintranslation #koreanhistory #koreanliterature #antiauthoritarian #literatureasactivism #humanrights
Absolutely, go ahead!