A Camelot Almanack

Interesting posts about the Hudson Valley, my books, books I’ve read, and my travels.

Please Come Join Us on April 22 at the Book Club Bar

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Historians document the past by presenting the available evidence. Their chief responsibility is to lay out “the facts” and help us interpret them. But historical novelists are storytellers whose mission is to entertain. Imagining, dramatizing, and speculating about the past are essential to their craft. In History and Imagination: Historical Fiction’s Magic Elixir, authors Erica Obey (Dazzlepaint) […]

Please Come Join Us on April 22 at the Book Club Bar

It’s… Alive! The Woodstock Library’s First Annual Exquisite Corpse

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What, you may ask, is an exquisite corpse? It is a game much like Mad Libs or the old-fashioned parlor game of Consequences, in which a series of artists or writers each adds a paragraph or picture part in sequence, knowing nothing or very little of the previous contributions. The name comes from a sentence

It’s… Alive! The Woodstock Library’s First Annual Exquisite Corpse

Virtual Tea with Laurie R. King at West Hurley Library on July 26!

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I am excited to be chatting with one of my favorite authors, Laurie R. King, about her new Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes novel #Castle Shade as well as the #MysteryWritersofAmerica handbook, How to Write a Mystery, that she coedited. Please come join us for a (virtual) literary tea at the West Hurley Public Library on Monday

Virtual Tea with Laurie R. King at West Hurley Library on July 26!

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