By Barbara on May 13, 2011
ADVENTURES IN RESEARCH – 2 Kid Gloves ‘n’ Hookers Barbara Hambly So, did a hooker cost more than a pair of kid gloves? Since the first moment long-ago when I sat down with a sheet of blue-lined notebook paper in front of me at the kitchen table to write my first “historical novel” (this was […]
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By Barbara on April 17, 2011
Since, apparently, the release of my old vampire series – Those Who Hunt the Night and Traveling with the Dead – on digital last month via Open Road Media (www.openroadmedia.com) qualifies me as a “well-known author of vampire fiction” these days, I guess it’s okay for me to write about my take on vampires and […]
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By Barbara on April 12, 2011
Refuelling. That’s what Poppy Z Brite called it, standing on a streetcorner of Royal Street one evening in 1997. “Reading books, going to clubs, listening to music,” she said. It’s the part of writing that a lot of non-writers don’t really understand. I’ve just spent a very pleasant afternoon cutting out shirts for myself. Later […]
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By Barbara on September 19, 2010
This is Barbara, making what I hope is the official announcement: 1) Blood Maidens is out in the U.K. I believe this month – someone told me they’d ordered from Amazon U.K. and had actually GOTTEN a copy! I’m told it should be available in regular Amazon in December. b) Barbara Hamilton’s second Abigail Adams […]
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By Barbara on December 3, 2009
Amid all the fuss and fluster I completely forgot to mention that the second graphic novel in my series The Garden of Emptiness is out this month! This is the series – from PennyFarthing Press – about Anne Steelyard, rip-roarin’ rootin-tootin female archaeologist in the Middle East prior to WWI. The first of the series […]
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By Barbara on September 7, 2009
Just pressed the magic button, and the final draft of Dead & Buried (Benjamin January #9) whooshed on its way to Severn House in London. My fingers are now crossed. But, I’m very pleased with it. (I really hope I haven’t missed some excrutiatingly obvious clue…)
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By Barbara on August 21, 2009
Barbara Hambly Herself here – as I hope to be posting whenever there is news to impart. The news is, that Homeland is in stores – after a long and stressful journey to fruition. I think it’s one of my best, of the “literary fiction” genre – a Civil War novel about friendship, emotional survival, […]
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