12 Saturday Jun 2010
Posted in Interviews, Writing
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From the 1881 book A Voyage in the Sunbeam, by Annie Allnut Brassey
In response to this quiz from yingle yangle, and Faye L. Booth‘s recent post… Continue reading
04 Friday Sep 2009
Trades Of The Flesh is Faye L. Booth’s second novel – her first, Cover The Mirrors, was published in 2007. Both books are set in late 19th century Preston, and feature young, working-class women thriving in unconventional ways. Cover The Mirrors’ Molly Pinner worked as a medium, and Trades’ Lydia Ketch is a prostitute. Booth allows readers to reconsider existing views of Victorian morality, and shows how ordinary women negotiated degrees of independence in unlikely settings. Continue reading
15 Friday May 2009
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Questions snagged from Faye L. Booth
1. Are you a “pantser” or a “plotter?” I plan ahead to a degree – I write outlines, chapter and scene breakdowns – but how I get there is up to how I feel as I write, and subject to change.
2. Detailed character sketches or “their character will be revealed to me as a I write”? Quite detailed, I write character profiles but I discover more when I get down to writing scenes.
3. Do you know your characters’ goals, motivations, and conflicts before you start writing or is that something else you discover only after you start writing? My books are fact-based, but in my current novel the information I have is more about the background, time and place. The people I’m writing about now are real but I know very little about them – sometimes just when they were born, married, died. So despite being densely researched, the mainstay of my work is instinct and imagination. Continue reading
14 Sunday Dec 2008
Posted in Books, Fiction, Marilyn Monroe, The Mmm Girl, Updates
“In ‘The Mmm Girl’, Tara Hanks resists the temptation to make Monroe into a strong woman as we today would understand the term, and thereby gives us a far more believable and affecting heroine…no mean feat when time and legend have transformed her into a goddess made of celluloid and rhinestones…“
Faye L. Booth is the author of two lively, unusual historical novels,Cover The Mirrors and the forthcoming Trades Of The Flesh. She has also published a review of The Mmm Girl – read more
