Mincing no words

Now here’s a novelist who knows her own mind. In her upcoming feature interview with bestselling historical novelist Margaret George, the publisher of The Writer, Elfrieda Abbe, poses this question:

You’ve written about Cleopatra, Mary Queen of Scots, Mary Magdalene and now Queen Elizabeth I--strong women who have changed the course of history in some way. How do you decide on a subject?

 Ms. George’s reply (in part):

  “I like somebody who has led an operatic life. When I go to the opera, I realize I don’t like the comedies. I want the stage to be littered with corpses.”

 Look for plenty of writing insights and advice from Ms. George in Elfrieda’s article, which will be in our August issue.

 -- Ron Kovach, senior editor, The Writer 

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