Firehouse
Center for the Arts, Newburyport, MA, where I'm a board
member
serving on the executive and marketing committees. The Firehouse
Center has been a hallmark of local culture and arts, drawing patrons
from the local communities as well as a large tourist crowd in the
spring, summer and fall. Programming is broad-based, and includes
dance, music, theater, an art gallery, and a school show series.
Anne Easter Smith,
author of A Rose
for the Crown and three forthcoming historical
novels; I'm proud to serve as Anne's webmaster. Booklist writes:
"Into
the crowded ring of fictional treatments of Fifteenth Century English
royal court life, rife with strife, this first novelist tosses her
colorful hat. ... it is apparent that a copious amount of
research has
been done. ... What Smith accomplishes with elan is a
very credible
biographical novel about a woman whose true identity has never been
known. ...Fans of historical fiction will little note nor at all
care
that this is the author's first novel. Smith's involved plot
correlates well with the convoluted politics of the time."
| A Rose for the Crown excerpt | German hardcover translation of Die Rose von England |
| Audio version of A Rose for the Crown | German audio version (abridged) of Die Rose von England |
| Reviews of A Rose for the Crown | Other books by Anne Easter Smith |