All things Celtic! I especially enjoy William Coulter, Barry and Shelley Phillips, and Kim Robertson. I also like Brazilian jazz by Antonio Carlos Jobim, classical guitar, and old-timey country.
And let me put in a plug for my pal, guitarist Tim Brace. He's awesome.
Movies
The Wild Bunch, Once Upon a Time in the West, Ben Hur, Cool Hand Luke, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Little Big Man
Television
I confess I'm not much of a TV watcher.
I enjoyed "Deadwood" and "Carnivale." And I'm diggin' the "Sharpe's Rifles" movies on Netflix! Where has Sharpe been all my life?
Lately I've been watching DVDs of "Mannix." Mannix was hot as the sun, baby!
Books
Currently reading:Lincoln's Labels by James M. Schmidt
Last book read:The Great Influenza by John M. Barry
I enjoy historical fiction. Some favorites are The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor, The March by E.L. Doctorow, the Kent Family Chronicles (and just about everthing else) by John Jakes. I enjoyed Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose, though I still think the definitive biographies of Lewis and Clark are still to be written.
Frances Hunter Could you eat six to nine pounds of meat per day? The men of the Lewis & Clark expedition did. http://tinyurl.com/yg8pubpPosted 17 hours ago from Twitter view more
About me:
Frances Hunter is the writing team of sisters Mary Clare and Liz Clare. Their debut historical novel, To the Ends of the Earth: The Last Journey of Lewis & Clark (Blind Rabbit Press, 2006), won a Violet Crown Award, a silver "IPPY," and was a finalist for ForeWord's Book of the Year.
Their second novel, The Fairest Portion of the Globe, a novel of conspiracy, betrayal, and international intrigue on the early American frontier, will be published in February 2010.
For excerpts from our books, further reading, historical background, and lots more, please see Frances Hunter's website.
What Reviewers Are Saying about To The Ends of the Earth:
"First-time novelist Hunter spins an imaginative tale of what might have happened during the last month of Lewis's life that is authentic in detail and shows both the flaws and the virtues of these legends of American history. ...Highly recommended." - Library Journal, September 15, 2006
"Full of gritty historical detail and raw imagery that rings true across the years. To The Ends of The Earth is historical fiction at its best, pulling the reader in and re-engaging the mind and imagination in the drama that occurred 200 years ago." - Midwest Book Review, September 2006
"Frances Hunter tells a thrilling tale ... This book has been endorsed by acclaimed western writer Elmer Kelton and received excellent reviews from many Lewis and Clark historians and writers." - North Dakota Horizons, Fall 2006
"The story is one for readers who love adventure, interesting settings, a little romance, blood and gore, and characters who live life largely ... a page turner until the end." - Historical Novels Review Online, November 2006
"To Liz and Mary Clare, sisters writing under the name of Frances Hunter, bravo and welcome to two bright new stars of Western fiction." - Western Writers of America's Roundup Magazine, December 2006
Who I'd like to meet: Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, George Rogers Clark, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, John Adams, George Washington, Patrick Henry, "Mad Anthony" Wayne, Benjamin Franklin (jeez - all dead white guys)
Anybody interested in creative writing, Lewis and Clark, and historical fiction!
Same to you! I just moved here from Las Vegas a week ago so I'm a new Texan. I'm going to be doing a book festival in Vegas in Nov, but maybe I will run in2 you at a Texas festival some day! :0)
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