Feb 15 2024 28 mins
Listen in as I chat with Susanne Dunlap, author of more than a dozen historical novels for adults and teens. Susanne joins me on the Art In Fiction Podcast to discuss one of her newest novels, The Courtesan's Daughter, listed in the Film category on Art In Fiction.
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Highlights include:
- Inspiration for The Courtesan's Daughter - Alice Guy-Blaché, a pioneering French filmmaker who appears in the novel
- Focus on developing the story of a mother and daughter in early-20th-century New York and exploring generational conflict.
- What silent films were like in 1910 when the novel is set.
- Research into the period--Vitagraph, the innovations of early filmmaker J. Stuart Blackburn, and why the film industry eventually moved from New York to LA.
- Role of "pornographic" postcards in the novel
- Writing the "messy middle" of a novel
- Themes in The Courtesan's Daughter
- Reading from The Courtesan's Daughter
- How story is the most important element in historical fiction
- Advice about research methods
- What Susanne is working on now
Press Play now & be sure to check out The Courtesan's Daughter and all of Susanne's other novels on Art In Fiction.
Susanne Dunlap's Website
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