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Sappho Sings
http://sappho-sings.blogspot.com
This is a place for me to share my feelings toward the writing/publishing process in general. I call the place "Sappho Sings" because I feel her presence in my life as The Poetess just as some feel Homer as The Poet. Though she and I are separated by centuries, I hear her voice in the Timeless Universe. She is my idol, my muse, my soul mate. It is my privilege to honor her in my work.
Author's home page: http://peggyullmanbell.com
- Added on: Apr 9th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Peggy Ullman Bell
- Listed in: How-To Fiction
- Tags: book reviews publishing author independent publishing book promotion historical fiction
Recent Posts
Castle Age
Lately, I’ve spent a lot of time playing the FaceBook game Castle Age and I’ve had the honor of being included in a wonderful exclusive group of dedicated dragon slayers one of whom is a marvelous artist named Mike Tanis. His amazing rendering of...
Undone © 2009 by Karen Slaughter [Delecorte Press/Random House] When reading a requested review copy, I keep a notepad handy. For "Undone" the pad stayed empty as I stayed too involved in the story for notetaking. Although not my usual genre choice, "Und
Blogger News Net Review of SAPPHO SINGS
Out of a mere handful of facts known about the life of a lyric poet so famous in her lifetime (or shortly after it) that she was known as the 10th Muse and from the bare thousand or so lines left to us out of nine volumes of collected works, Peggy Ul...
Another great review of SAPPHO SINGS
Sappho Sings. And so does Peggy Ullman Bell in her lyrical, painstakingly researched, emotionally involving novel about the Poetess of Lesbos. Will Durant in his "Life of Greece" is quoted as saying that Sappho "called herself Psappha, in her soft Ae...
New review of SAPPHO SINGS
Meticulously researched, expertly conceived, and beautifully written, Sappho Sings is a rich, poetic feast of a novel. Following the famous, and famously passionate, lady of Lesbos through her riches-to-rags-to-riches story, the novel chronicles Sapp...
Sappho speaks.
My name is Psappha. [suh-fah] Men of Athens dubbed me “Sappho Masculo”. Perhaps they thought that saying I wrote like a man would flatter me. It didn’t. I am proud of who I am. I am Psappha; The Poetess; The Lesbian and I intend to be remembere...
