By Ann Miller
Do you like music, fantasy, and historical fiction?
This site is for you!!!
Update!! One novel is almost ready to publish. “A Gambler’s Life” has been through two beta reads, multiple rewrites and is now being edited in anticipation of publication. We also have the cover art ready, thanks to the amazing work of Jenna Fanning. Read about Isabella Colbran Rossini (yes, that Rossini!) and the post-Napoleon turmoil in Naples.
My historical fiction/Fantasy novels are set in modern America and Elizabethan England. Not everything is the way it seems at those Renaissance fairs!
My historical fiction/music novels are set in multiple times and places, following the lives of women and partners of famous composers. These men often relied on the women and others in their lives. We might not have their music without those women.
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Ann MIller
Ann earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology and went on to spend nearly thirty years as a naval analyst. She now runs Science is Elemental, a science education nonprofit. She started playing the violin/traditional Irish Fiddle in 2005 when her then four year-old daughter wanted to play. In 2012 she participated in her first National Novel Writing Month and has not looked back. That first novel, although unrecoverably bad, taught her how much she enjoyed writing. Ann continues to write novels and play music.
Books in Progress
Three men are very interested in Isabella Colbran. Who really cares for her and how will she choose? Can she survive long enough in a threatening political climate to have the choice?
Check out my soon to be published historical fiction about the main woman in the life of Gioachino Rossini. Check back for a sneak peak at the front cover!
Before she can spy on her husband, Duchess Sophie Elisabeth and those dear to her must survive the fighting of the Thirty Years’ War in what is now Germany. Her music and friendship with composer Heinrich Schutz support her survival and her subterfuge.
What should a young woman in troubled times do when her husband betrays her own family? I am finishing the front material providing the relations of the characters and a brief background for the Thirty Years War.
Sometimes, the actors at the Renaissance Faire seem too authentic
My novels about a modern Renaissance Faire and their recruits direct from Elizabethan England explore how people might find themselves far from the world of their birth.
Do you ever wonder what the life of a red-headed 18th Century priest and composer might be like, and why a bishop would forbid him from entering a town in Italy?
Much has been written about Antonio Vivladi, including speculation about his relationship with the very young soprano in his operas. My take is a bit different, and includes the women’s point of view.
Contact the author
ann@annshistoricalfiction.com