vortex:
1. fluid flow involving rotation about an axis, esp. a whirlpool. 2. a situation drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
vortex(t): a fluid flow of language that creates an imaginative vortex, drawing the reader to its center, triggering synchronicity and synthesis.
I'm writing this blog to let people know what's going on with my novel project, La Belle Quartet. Requiem for the Author of Frankenstein was the first of the series. The Appassionata, set in Paris and the center of my current efforts, is the second.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
"Gothic romance, feminist history, philosophical mystery—it’s perfect for those of us who love to think as much as we love a good story. Molly Dwyer brings Mary Shelley and her circle so alive it makes me wonder if they ever died." —Jean Hegland, author of Into the Forest and Windfall
••• AWARDS •••
WINNER FIRST PLACE GOLD 2008 Independent Publishers
Book of the Year Award
for Historical Fiction
ForeWord Magazine, NY
WINNER 2008
Historical Fiction Award, Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group
FINALIST 2009
2009 Northern California
Book Award in Fiction
Northern California Book Reviewers, 28th Annual NCBA,
San Francisco, CA
FINALIST 2007
Fiction Award, San Francisco Writers Conference
CHIEF AL NELDER PRIZE, 2007
FOR SIGNIFICANT POTENTIAL
Kromenar Press, San Francisco
FINALIST, 2nd Place, 2004
Fiction Award, Mendocino Coast Writers Conference
A bit about my next novel:
The Appassionata (named for Beethoven’s Sonata in F minor, op. 57) is set in mid 19th century Paris and traces the life and death of concert pianist Victorine Farrenc (1826-1859), the daughter of classical composer and pianist Louise Farrenc. Both were contemporaries of Chopin, Liszt and Berlioz, who figure largely […]