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Posted on 29. January 2015 by rosina

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My name is Rosina Lippi. I'm a former academic and tenured university professor, writing full time since 2000. Under the pen name Sara Donati I am the author of the Wilderness series, six historical novels that follow the fortunes of a group of families living in upstate New York from about 1792-1825. A new series based on later generations of the same families was launched September 1, 2015 with The Gilded Hour. I'm working on the next volume in the new series, called Where the Light Enters.

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Wise Guys

If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn’t expecting it.

— H.G. Wells (attributed), Sir Osbert Sitwell

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I said …

You Can Dance
The Cost of Research
Odd connections in historical fiction: the lottery, Cuba, New Orleans, and Little Birds
Software for the Historical Novelist, and Little Birds
trees and the wilderness
Excerpt: Where the Light Enters
Mark Twain on April Fool’s Day 1885

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rosina on Sex
Susan on Sex
Bev Singer on The Gilded Hour sequel: NOT YET.
Katie Bunnell on The Gilded Hour sequel: NOT YET.
rosina on Sex
Jenny on Sex
rosina on newspapers.com: the agony and the ecstacy

greatest hits

if I had a hammer, or: that opinionated bitch, my muse
heartburn, and the digestion of feedback
plot vs story
pov: the unreliable narrator
the story arc according to Cinderella: rules of thumb
Uncle Peter’s eloquence
writing gesture
advice for aspiring novelists
the midlist/midlife crisis
fair play: the author as a local business
to say nothing of the dog … proofreading
authorial confessions
dear editor
symbolically stalin

The Wilderness Series

Into the Wilderness
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Dawn on a Distant Shore
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Lake in the Clouds
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Fire Along the Sky
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Queen of Swords
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The Endless Forest
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selected non-fiction

Down the Rabbit Hole
Foreword: Celia Garth by Gwen Bristow (1959; reprint ed)
Accent, Standard Language Ideology, and Discriminatory Pretext in the Courts
On writing fiction: basic concepts
Teaching Children How to Discriminate: What We Learn from the Big Bad Wolf
The Story, the Plot and the Police
Legalities
front
Test by pramod
Posts on Writing and Craft
Pickup Truck (short fiction)
Wise Guys
Excerpt: English with an Accent

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Rosina Lippi

novelist. writer. researcher. editor. academic linguist. progressive. democratic socialist. atheist. interested in animal welfare, civil/human rights, storytelling, mixed media art. dogs are people too. INTJ.

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