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, Perfect. Google’s English dictionary provided by Oxford Languages defines the first instance of the adjective ‘perfect’ as ‘having all the required or desirable elements, qualities...
Hi Everyone, In the last few months I have been reading The Women, a vibrant novel by Kristin Hannah. I admire Kristin’s writing; I find her novels commercial, engaging and sincere, always teasing out...
Hi Everyone, Deadheading? When I bought my home, I inherited a lovely garden—roses, hollyhocks, lavender, ivy—forty years of growth. As I took possession in a November, I wasn’t truly aware of what...
Hi Everyone, Okay, so The Fair Incognito, my work-in-progress, is done – or better said, “I’m done.” I may or may not have met my aspiration. I am told the finish line when writing a novel is a bit...
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...