Finola Austin, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/author/finolaaustin/ Thu, 11 Feb 2021 13:06:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 This Valentine’s Day, Be Glad You Don’t Live In The Times Of Bridgerton… https://booksbywomen.org/this-valentines-day-be-glad-you-dont-live-in-the-times-of-bridgerton/ https://booksbywomen.org/this-valentines-day-be-glad-you-dont-live-in-the-times-of-bridgerton/#respond Thu, 11 Feb 2021 09:33:59 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=34259 This Valentine’s Day, be glad you don’t live in the times of Bridgerton… If you ever write a book, you’ll get used to answering silly questions. As a writer of historical fiction, there’s one in particular that gets me every single time. “Would you like to have lived in the nineteenth century?” people ask me, […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/how-writing-my-first-novel-prepared-me-to-write-my-debut-novel/feed/ 0 31528 The Brontë Myth: Why This Literary Family Continues to Inspire Writers Today https://booksbywomen.org/the-bronte-myth-why-this-literary-family-continues-to-inspire-writers-today/ https://booksbywomen.org/the-bronte-myth-why-this-literary-family-continues-to-inspire-writers-today/#respond Fri, 14 Feb 2020 09:21:22 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=29408 The Brontë Myth: why this literary family continues to inspire writers today I first “met” the Brontës when my mother read my younger sister and me Jane Eyre. My sister hid under the covers at the “romantic bits.” I hung over the edge of the top bunk to beg for another chapter.  The story confused […]

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