Well, I started this 8 hours ago, posted a lot of excerpts, answered comments from a few people, had lots of great comments from an old friend I had lost touch with. Hopefully there were lurkers who read the excerpts but just didn't comment. If you come late, go...
Ruth Sims - Author Page
A tiny bit of Betsy, a work in progress
A work in progress, based on real people, real lives. The title character is Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, wife of the great Alexander Hamilton. Though he cheated on her in the first public sex scandal of the republic, he loved her. He called her "the best of women,...
Be back soon
It's 1:00 here in the beautiful corn country of Illinois. I'm going to grab something to eat and then be back. Feel free to post comments! I'll catch up.
FREE READS–excerpts and links
I love to give stuff away. Here are a few free stories for anybody who wants to read them. ==================== Short story, TOM: or, An Improbable Tail (c) Ruth Sims FREE READ ebook at AllRomanceEbooks: http://tinyurl.com/bknlb6 EXCERPT FROM TOM: This is the tale of...
Independents Day
No, that's not a misspelling. I hope lots of people read this today. Since this is a blog, I'm gonna blog about something I think is important: Independent Bookstores. They're disappearing faster than ethics in politics. And book buyers are the only ones who can...
Information about The Phoenix
Finally! I got the cover image to load. This is the cover by Ben Baldwin for the NEW edition, published by Lethe Press February 2009. The original edition was self-published and has a brown cover. See the video trailer at www.ruthsims.com and read the reviews. Here...
Excerpt from Counterpoint/ A different point of view
This scene takes place the morning after Dylan has heard Geoffrey play at the music hall. . FYI: Schonberg is the aging violinist who is Geoffrey's mentor. (reminder: Counterpoint is unpublished at this time) =================================== The next morning was...
Excerpt from Counterpoint. When a Gypsy makes his violin cry…
This is in the second half of the book. Dylan, depressed and unable to compose after having lost Laurence, returns to England to put his life back together. He meets Geoffrey Dohnanyi again, whom he had met years before when Geoffrey was a teenager. They had not liked...
Excerpt from Counterpoint, part 2
(part 2 of 2) Background: The book opens with Dylan at 18 in his last year at Venerable Bede School. He makes a clumsy and immediately rejected attempt at seducing his favorite teacher, Laurence Northcliff. He doesn't realize that Laurence has fallen in love with him....
Excerpt from Counterpoint/ part 1
(The excerpt is a little long so m putting it in two posts.) ============================= Background: The book opens with Dylan at 18 in his last year at Venerable Bede School. He makes a clumsy and immediately rejected attempt at seducing his favorite teacher,...
