Join me as I chat with Lauren Belfer, author of several riveting historical novels including And After the Fire and A Fierce Radiance.   

Highlights:

• Genesis of And After the Fire
• Learning about the music of Johann Sebastian Bach
• Salons of 19th-century Berlin and Fanny Mendelsohn
• Role of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, son of Johann Sebastian Bach in the novel
• Fanny Mendelsohn's fraught relationship with her brother Felix Mendelsohn
• What is so appealing about Bach's music?
• Reading from And After the Fire
• Using details in historical fiction 
• Process of writing
• Genesis of A Fierce Radiance
• Parallels of the 1918 flu epidemic and COVID in 2021
• The role of Life Magazine and photography in A Fierce Radiance
• Advice for authors: write what you don't know

Press Play now & be sure to check out Lauren Belfer's novels on Art In Fiction.

Lauren Belfer's Website

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Music Credits
Intro:Paganology, performed by The Paul Plimley Trio; composed by Gregg Simpson
Ad:Celtic Calypso, performed by Lunar Adventures; composed by Gregg Simpson

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