by Michele Genthon | Feb 8, 2012 | MUSINGS, Reading
The book Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life provoked my thinking about women’s stories. I read the book because I was intrigued by the title, imagining an autobiography with an imaginative twist. I was surprised to find that Mrs. Nixon was simply the...
by Michele Genthon | Oct 20, 2010 | MUSINGS, Reflecting
My novel The Last Queen of Cyprus is a fictional account of the life of Caterina Cornaro. In the fifteenth century, the Republic of Venice selects fourteen-year old Caterina to marry the king of Cyprus. When the king and his son die under mysterious circumstances,...
