I also started reading a lot of historical fiction in my teen years-like Dickens, Austen, and Alcott-and I found great stories to be a great refuge.īetty: How long did you work on your writing skills before you became published?Īna: My novel Fanny Newcomb and the Irish Channel Ripper was published in November 2017, although much of it was finished about ten years earlier. Getting my feelings down on the page led me to read “real” poetry, and to appreciate the rhythm and power of the written word. Very bad poetry, of course, but it was verse that helped me express my sorrow and loss. That’s when my mother died and I found great solace in writing poetry. Website * Facebook * Instagram * PinterestĪna: Probably when I was twelve. Ana is an active member of the Historical Novel Society and Sisters in Crime, is the Events Chair for Sisters in Crime Northern California, and is a founding member of the Paper Lantern Writers historical fiction collective. After many years in software development, Ana is ecstatic to write historical fiction full time.
She also worked as an architectural historian in Mississippi. Ana’s current work-in-progress features a bodacious vaudeville singer beset with murder, mistaken identity, and multiple romances in 1919 San Francisco.Īna is a long-time student of history and earned her master’s degree in American history from Florida State University. Please help me welcome Ana Brazil! Let’s peek at her bio and then we’ll find out more about her.Īna Brazil is the author of the historical mystery Fanny Newcomb and the Irish Channel Ripper, winner of the 2018 Independent Book Publishers Association Gold Medal for Historical Fiction.
My guest today is an award-winning novelist.
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