Marlene Hauser
Blogs
These blogs are a chance to share with you more personally how I feel about things going on in my life and/or in the world at large. Sometimes they are directly related to my books, but most often they are not.
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Hi Everyone, I suppose like everyone else, I am well aware of the news accounts of the impending doom and gloom (Fake News, Runaway Warfare) or the spectacular rise (Enhancement of Human Capabilities)...
Hi Everyone, In researching my novel-in-progress, The Fair Incognito, I hit a snag: were my main characters, Jean-Jacques and Lucy Bakewell Audubon, merely two riches-to-rags n’er-do-wells as is often...
Hi Everyone, I am not sure where I first heard the saying “Never underestimate the faith of your childhood,” but in recent months that motto has not let me go. The first time I heard it, I thought of...
Hi Everyone, So where does story come from? Looking back on my work, novel number one, Off-Island, came from a desire to reach out to other women, perhaps men, who had been through the abortion...
Hi Everyone, It’s February! And of course that means Happy Valentine’s Day and (for me) Happy Birthday as well! In celebration of this month of Love and Romance, I am pleased to share a joyful scene...
Hi Everyone, Happy (of course) New Year! 2025! I wish I had high-flying plans for this new year, but the truth is I don’t. I love the close of a year so much that I actually find it rather difficult...
Hi Everyone, The end of the year: December! Hardly seems time yet to do a review of 2024. But by coincidence my Oxford Black n’ Red notebook ran out today, the first of December. Before tossing it in...
Hi Everyone, I recently heard someone use the expression ‘information from nowhere.’ What she seemed to be saying was that sometimes (and this was, she felt, her particular quirk) information about a...
Hi Everyone, While many people class my novel Geraniums as historical fiction, I do not. Set in the 1960s and ’70s, I tag it modern-day, as those were years I lived through. History was within easy...