When I am not writing about living with scleroderma or helping my clients with marketing and communications strategy, I pursue my own writing. Fiction, that is—historical fiction, in particular.
Back in 2014, I began working on a novel set in World War I about a mother whose estranged daughter runs off with her beau to drive ambulances for the French war effort, and the mother’s journey to bring her back home. It took seven years to research and write, and it’s taken another four-and-a-half years of searching for a literary agent and/or publisher. But persistence finally paid off, and I’m thrilled to share that my debut novel, Line of Flight, will be published by Köehler Books this December.
I write about the process of creating historical fiction on my Substack, History Making, and you can read a bit more about how this all came about here.
You’ll also find a bunch of essays there about how I researched the novel, as well as the novel I’m working on now regarding art and censorship in Weimar Germany.
As I’ve written here before, we are all much, much more than our diagnoses. In my heart of hearts, I’m an artist. Words are my medium. I’ll be sure to post here when the book is ready for pre-order, for anyone who’d like to read about something other than living with scleroderma. Thanks.
Evelyn Herwitz blogs weekly about living fully with chronic disease, the inside of baseballs, turtles and frogs, J.S. Bach, the meaning of life and whatever else she happens to be thinking about at livingwithscleroderma.com. Please view Privacy Policy here.
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