by Barbara Kyle | Nov 15, 2021 | Uncategorised
My stupidity with numbers is kind of embarrassing. Seriously, I still stumble over grade-school multiplication tables. I have to stare at a clock face for several seconds before I can read the time. Algebra? Calculus? Unfathomable. Numbers, to me, are silent...
by Barbara Kyle | Oct 9, 2021 | Uncategorised
Readers love book series. No wonder. We get to know the continuing characters so well, we’re eager to find out what happens to them in the next book. For the author, though, the terrain of a series can be a minefield. My Thornleigh Saga is a series of seven historical...
by Barbara Kyle | Jul 22, 2021 | Uncategorised
I’m feeling pretty happy these days because I’ve just finished writing a new book, my twelfth novel. However, during the eighteen months it took to complete, there were days when the work was definitely not making me happy. Luckily, my career as a writer has taught me...
by Barbara Kyle | Jun 1, 2021 | Uncategorised
[Ralph Bruce illustration: “Sydney Carton” in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.] KILLING YOUR DARLINGS by Barbara Kyle Have you heard the phrase, “You’ve got to kill your darlings”? It comes from a 1916 book by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch who...
by Barbara Kyle | Mar 20, 2021 | Uncategorised
Shakespeare was an actor. So was Dickens. In a way every writer is, because when we create stories we play all the roles inside our heads. It’s part of the joy of writing. Before becoming an author I enjoyed a twenty-year acting career and I’ve found many...
