by Ashley Hagan | Jan 7, 2020 | Things I Love
This Scottish ball of fire known as M.C. Beaton was the prolific author of two popular mystery series starring her creatively-named detectives Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth. I began reading her after being given an Agatha Raisin novel several years ago, and I...
by Ashley Hagan | Dec 18, 2019 | Things I Love
Winter inspires me. During a season in which many people feel grey and colorless, trapped and isolated, I feel peace. I enjoy the forced slow-down, the quiet solitude. In spring, there is the pressure to perform, to look alive, to bring forth, but in winter, there...
by Ashley Hagan | Dec 13, 2019 | Duel, Pedestal, Something Completely Different, Things I Love
This is Patty Crotty. She is a professor of acting and stage management at the Florida School of the Arts, which I attended for the first two years of college. Although acting didn’t become my career, my time at FloArts was definitely not a waste. It’s where I...
by Ashley Hagan | Apr 13, 2019 | Things I Love
Spring is the time for new beginnings and, I hope, endings (of novels) that lead to eventual book birth. It made me think of poetry about spring. Here is one of my faves. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o’er...
by Ashley Hagan | Apr 5, 2019 | Miscellaneous, Things I Love
Necessary items for an all-female writing retreat.
by Ashley Hagan | Mar 21, 2019 | Current Project, Duel, Things I Love
In Duel, I base my fictitious estate, Hampstead Hall, on the very real estate of Great Fosters in Surrey, England. Once a hunting lodge of Henry VIII, this Tudor mansion and estate is now a hotel. The Tapestry Room is one of the luxury hotel rooms, but it used to...
