Lifting the Literary Curtain

News from Elizabeth Braithwaite

There is nothing more exciting for an author than visiting the land through which her fictional characters travelled, a landscape that was real but that came out of…
For the last several years during Lent, I have participated in Lent Madness. It’s an online competition in which you receive each day a bracket of two saints…
In A Flight of Saints, pious, pint-sized Little Fey bears the stigmata, and though she feels bad about it, she is also happy to use the holy wounds…
As an inveterate walker, I appreciate a good map, the hard-copy kind. As a reader, I find a map not only helpful but it often makes a fictional…
When it came to creating the characters in A Flight of Saints, I knew what I didn’t want—a cast of stock medieval archetypes. I wanted them to be…
A writer never knows where or when an idea might strike: An overheard conversation on a bus or in a shop; a detail in a painting glimpsed in…
A Flight of Saints book cover detail
Lifting the Literary Curtain | Jane Christmas