Archive for August 2023
Sheltering Angel Out-take ~ Andrew and the Northfleet
When I draft a book manuscript, inevitably I omit sections that don’t serve the plot. But I never completely delete them. Below is a short omitted section of Sheltering Angel that gives insight into Andrew Cunningham’s character. Fog reminded me of rainy afternoons in Scotland when I was a lad. Da built a fire…
Read MorePierpont ~ 1907
If you’ve read my novel Sheltering Angel, you’ve met Andrew Cunningham, first-class steward aboard Titanic. Writing the novel, I cut sections to shorten the word count, because the scene didn’t support the plot of the story, and sometimes, as with the following outtake, because the episode is entirely made up. With historical fiction, imagination plays…
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