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Posted on 1. January 20087. September 2013 by rosina

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Some kind soul submitted Tied to the Tracks as a best book of 2007 to Dee and dee Dish About Books annual list. Was it you? If so, thanks.

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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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Note: Contact Village Books directly if you'd like a signed copy of any of my books. I can go into the shop to sign what you've ordered, and they will ship it to you.

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
See the whole Wise Guys collection here.

I said …

  • ta-da… where the light enters
  • 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

you said…

  • 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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  Into the Wilderness

Dawn on a Distant Shore

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Dawn on a Distant Shore

Lake in the Clouds

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Lake in the Clouds

Fire Along the Sky

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Fire Along the Sky

Queen of Swords

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Queen of Swords

The Endless Forest

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The Endless Forest

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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