Please vote for it at https://www.tckpublishing.com/2021-readers-choice-awards/ Farewell My Life has just been nominated for the 2021 Readers Choice Awards contest by TCK Publishing, founded by Tom Corson-Knowles in 2011. Please vote for […]
You can read all about my newest novel, FAREWELL MY LIFE, the inspiration behind it, and my writing habits. Just click on the link below: Advice from IR Approved Author Cynthia Haggard: […]
Learn more about our dreamy violinist Grace, her sharp-tongued sister Violet, her vivid mother Angelina, and her sinister suitor Mr. Russell…
Who was Stefan George? If you look him up, you will find out that he was born in 1868 and died in 1933, and that he was a poet. In fact, he […]
I am a fan of Kate Forsyth. I love the way in which she takes folk tales and put a new twist on them. I loved Bitter Greens (her take on Rapunzel), […]
NANA by Emile Zola is an interesting take on sex-obsessed Paris of the nineteenth century, the Paris that has now become a stereotype for sexual behavior in our own times. The heroine, […]
Here is what Indie Reader had to say: Droll, dramatic, frightening, immersive, FAREWELL MY LIFE grabbed my attention from the first pages and kept it the entire way. Cynthia Sally Haggard’s FAREWELL […]
FAREWELL MY LIFE is a novel about dissolving, crumbling and the vanishing of comfortable lives and assumptions. Again I was SO LUCKY! While doing research on the novel, I noticed that Alfred […]
The value of the Mark declined during the war, going from about 4.2 Marks to the dollar at the beginning of the war in August 1914, to about 8.91 Marks to the […]
FAREWELL MY LIFE is in three parts. The third part, FAREWELL MY LIFE opens in Berlin, Germany in July 1938. At that time, Berlin was like a patient in a dentist’s chair […]
What historical time period do you gravitate towards the most with your personal reading? That depends on what I’m working on. When I was writing Thwarted Queen I read historical fiction about […]
FAREWELL MY LIFE is in three parts. The second part, AN UNSUITABLE SUITOR opens in Berlin, Germany in January 1922. At that time, Berlin was a poor and impoverished city, still recovering […]
PARIS WIFE by Paula McLain is a fictionalized account of Ernest Hemingway’s first marriage to Hadley Richardson, and the time they spent together in Paris during the 1920s. Hadley Richardson was not […]
FAREWELL MY LIFE is three parts. The first part, THE LOST MOTHER opens in Georgetown in September 1921. At that time Georgetown was NOT the busy commercial hub that it now is, […]
What does your writing routine look like? The truth is that I don’t have a writing routine. When I write, I work every day in the morning because that is my best […]
It is 1938, when the novel closes. Here is Coco Chanel in 1938, working with a model. I remember my female teachers in my girls school wearing a similar outfit. Although their […]
When did you know you wanted to be a writer? Not until fairly late in life (at the age of 43). Prior to that, I’d been a violinist and then a cognitive […]
It is 1921, when the novel opens. Here is an elegant lady (who could be ANGELINA, but costumed by Chanel) dressed to the nines for a walk outside. Notice how her outfit sits […]
