Melissa Muldoon, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/author/melissamuldoon/ Thu, 03 Dec 2020 12:47:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 The Secret Life Of Sofonisba Anguissola—The Most Famous Woman You’ve Never Heard Of https://booksbywomen.org/the-secret-life-of-sofonisba-anguissola-the-most-famous-woman-youve-never-heard-of/ https://booksbywomen.org/the-secret-life-of-sofonisba-anguissola-the-most-famous-woman-youve-never-heard-of/#respond Tue, 08 Dec 2020 08:21:01 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=33707 New Novel by Melissa Muldoon—“The Secret Life of Sofonisba Anguissola—the most famous woman you’ve never heard of.” Writing in the time of Covid. Despite these uncertain times of Covid, writing a historical novel about Sofonisba Anguissola set in the sixteenth century has been a gratifying and fulfilling experience. It provided me with a much-needed outlet […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/the-secret-life-of-sofonisba-anguissola-the-most-famous-woman-youve-never-heard-of/feed/ 0 33707 Labor Pains: A True Life Story of Giving Birth to a Book https://booksbywomen.org/labor-pains-a-true-life-story-of-giving-birth-to-a-book/ https://booksbywomen.org/labor-pains-a-true-life-story-of-giving-birth-to-a-book/#respond Wed, 05 Dec 2018 20:46:51 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=24943 Writing a novel is hard work. Much like giving birth, one struggles to conceive, grow the thing inside you and then push it out—it is messy and intense, and you are never entirely sure of the outcome. Before encountering your child, there are countless nights when sleep is impossible, as complicated plot lines revolve around […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/labor-pains-a-true-life-story-of-giving-birth-to-a-book/feed/ 0 24943 Waking Isabella – How My Second Novel Came To Be https://booksbywomen.org/waking-isabella-by-melissa-muldoon/ https://booksbywomen.org/waking-isabella-by-melissa-muldoon/#respond Tue, 17 Jul 2018 16:12:22 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=23494 How does one come up with the idea of a novel I am often asked? That question is often followed by a second one: Once you have an idea how do you sustain it and spin it into a full-length story? For me, it all begins first and foremost with an intriguing historical anecdote. Then […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/waking-isabella-by-melissa-muldoon/feed/ 0 23494 How The Italian Language Has Influenced My Writing https://booksbywomen.org/how-the-italian-language-has-influenced-my-writing/ https://booksbywomen.org/how-the-italian-language-has-influenced-my-writing/#respond Wed, 16 May 2018 20:32:37 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=22625 I have always considered myself a creative person, an artist and a designer. I have expressed myself through a variety of mediums — oil and acrylic and computer graphics — but I hadn’t defined myself as a writer per se. But that image of myself changed when I began to learn the Italian language fifteen years […]

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