• Skip to main content

Nadine Feldman, Author

celebrating strong female characters and whatever else strikes my fancy

  • Home
  • Reviews
  • Contact
  • Book Clubs
  • About Nadine
  • Sample Chapters
You are here: Home / Archives for womensfiction

womensfiction

It’s Cover Reveal Day!

July 8, 2021 by admin

At long last! I’ve been dying to share this cover for quite a while, and today’s the day. Thanks to the incomparable Lynne Hansen for agreeing to do the cover when she focuses mainly on horror. Please visit her page to see all her stunning work!

What I love about this cover is how it captures the actual story of a woman torn between two worlds.

Thanks also to Amy Bruno at Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours for setting up the tour. And thanks to the bloggers who are hosting this special day! Please click on their links below.

Books, Cooks, Looks

Books, Ramblings, and Tea

CelticLady’s Reviews

Donna’s Book Blog

Gwendalyn’s Books

Historical Fiction with Spirit

Jessica Belmont

Michelle the PA Loves to Read

momma_doc_reads

Passages to the Past

Pursuing Stacie

Reader_ceygo

Reading is My Remedy

The Book Junkie Reads

The Cozy Book Blog

The Enchanted Shelf

Two Bookish Babes

What a Whimsical Life

Filed Under: books, Faeries, fiction Tagged With: 19th Century, historical fiction, historicalfantasy, Scotland, strong female protagonist, womensfiction

A Visit From the Fey

June 30, 2021 by admin

The Factory Girl and the Fey was never meant to be a fairy tale. The original idea was straight historical fiction, and I had done a lot of research on the era (19th century), location (Scotland), and the lives of the working class.

There’s a mysterious process that happens when we start to put a story down, however. In this case, two of the Fair Folk showed up in a dream: Gentle and Rain, now known as Flora and Coira. Before I knew it, there was a Queen, Donella, and a whole host of others who showed up once Flora and Coira had established their presence.

Flora and Coira are sisters, but they are a yin and yang sort, with the former a gentle, sweet woman, and the latter sarcastic with a hint of danger.

I tried ignoring them, preferring to write straight historical fiction. Over and over I tried. I knew nothing about fairy tales. Hadn’t read them since childhood. Hadn’t even watched a lot of Disney movies. I was clearly in over my head. But they wouldn’t leave. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t write the story without them.

There was only one solution: do more research. I started reading Neil Gaiman. I studied Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale by Marina Warner. I found books that were retellings of fairy tales, such as Janet Yolen’s Briar Rose (sleeping beauty) and The Girls at the Kingfisher Club (The Twelve Princesses) by Genevieve Valentine. Day by day, I sought out those who could teach me what I needed to know. I found The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic and enrolled in some of their courses.

I had believed, mistakenly, that fairy tales were for children. The Factory Girl and the Fey is definitely not a children’s book, with some controversial topics in it. I wondered what adult would want to read my “weird little book.” Turns out, there’s a whole world of people who love all things Fey and Folklore.

Over time, I fell in love with the Fey. I am still learning, but I’ve learned enough to know that my story is oddly on track, despite my ignorance. Perhaps the fairy tales of my childhood were informing me, despite the decades in which they gathered dust in my brain. Or perhaps the storytelling aspect of fairy tales is hardwired within us, so it comes naturally once we allow our imaginations to carry us aloft.

Either way, I no longer try to shoo them away. They get to stay. And I suspect they have much more to tell me.

Filed Under: books, fiction Tagged With: 19thcentury, historicalfantasy, Scotland, womensfiction

Update on The Factory Girl and the Fey

June 9, 2021 by admin

We interrupt this regularly scheduled book review column because exciting things are happening with The Factory Girl and the Fey!

First, my copyeditor, Esther White, has completed her diligent work, and I am making the final tweaks to the manuscript based on her guidance. Kudos to Esther for her help!

Next, I have a cover! Happy dance! Lynne Hansen has outdone herself this time, and I can’t wait to share it. The good folks at Historical Virtual Book Tours will soon reveal the cover, and I can’t wait!

I’ll spend the rest of the month tidying up the manuscript, and I plan to put it on NetGalley by mid-July for advance reviews.

It’s definitely crunch time with all of this happening, but I’m very excited! I’m proud of this book and in the coming weeks will share more details about it. For more information or to add it to your Goodreads list, click here.

Filed Under: books, Faeries, fiction Tagged With: 19th Century, historical fantasy, new book, Scotland, womensfiction

Copyright © 2023 · Author Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in