Tag Archives: New Orleans

Creole Defined: Not An Exact Science

Posted on April 21, 2013 by Michael Llewellyn

It’s unexpected fun when a book title raises questions, i. e., Creole Son, my novel about painter Edgar Degas’s time in New Orleans. When people ask me to define Creole, I say it’s probably not what they think but lots more besides. Few ethnic terms … Continue reading →

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Romancing The Unknown

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Michael Llewellyn

Thirty odd years ago, during my Greenwich Village salad days, I was about to forget my dream of being published when I got a surprising call. “You’re Southern and you know history,” my agent said. “So how about writing some … Continue reading →

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Twelfth Night at the Eleventh Hour

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Michael Llewellyn

Like film actors wanting retakes, writers sometimes want to change a published work. Perhaps they’re unhappy with certain phraseology or maybe it’s something serious like a dropped plot thread, character development, or lack thereof. Turning a raw manuscript into a … Continue reading →

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All That Jazz…and Then Some!

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Michael Llewellyn

After twenty years in Manhattan, it was time to water my Southern roots. Since I’d always loved New Orleans food, music, history and unvarnished hedonism, I took an apartment in an 1840s Creole townhouse in the French Quarter. My landlord Frank, an … Continue reading →

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Cover Story: Lost & Found

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Michael Llewellyn

As the author of fourteen published novels, I can honestly say that none of my covers pleased me as much as the one for my latest book Creole Son: A Novel of Degas in New Orleans. The art director tracked … Continue reading →

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On the Road Again

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Michael Llewellyn

I was barely settled in my new home in California’s glorious Sonoma County, still unpacking in fact, when my publisher called with the earthshaking (usually not a welcome word in this part of the country!) news that my latest historical … Continue reading →

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