Find out what makes great, arts-inspired fiction in a variety of genres, from mysteries to crime novels, historical fiction, thrillers, contemporary fiction, and more. Art In Fiction founder and author Carol M. Cram chats with some of the top novelists featured on Art In Fiction, a curated online database of books inspired by the arts. Discover your next great read and get valuable advice on what it takes to be a successful writer.
Courageous Women, Dangerous Ideas in Book of Forbidden Words by Louise Fein
Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Louise Fein, author of Book of Forbidden Words, listed in the Literature category on Art In Fiction. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/XGECvUgXmO0 Premise for the novel: in Tudor England and 1550s Paris, a coded manuscript holds ideas dangerous enough to get its author burned at the stake, and in 1952, a former Bletchley Park codebreaker stuck in McCarthy-era suburbia is handed that manuscript and asked to crack it.Why Louise went looking for a histor...
24 Sept 2026
A Battle for Body and Heart in The Storyteller's War: Geoffrey Chaucer Reluctant Spy by JC Corry
Send us Fan Mail My guest today is J.C. Corry, author of The Storyteller's War: Geoffrey Chaucer, Reluctant Spy, listed in the Literature category on Art In Fiction. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ATuNBbQ2na8 Premise for the novel: a genesis story for Geoffrey Chaucer. In his mid-twenties, he's drunk, unpublished, and desperate to win Pippa, and sent to Spain under cover of the wine trade while the Castilian Civil War rages.Was Chaucer really a spy? How researchers Crow and Olsen's Chauce...
3 Sept 2026
Mothers, Daughters, and the Lure of Tradition in The Water Women by Bonnie Blaylock
Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Bonnie Blaylock, author of The Water Women, listed in the Textile Arts category on Art In Fiction. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/oQagNFbwEzI Premise for the novel: three generations of Sardinian women guard the ancient craft of byssus weaving, golden "sea silk" harvested from a mollusk, until a 1942 wartime secret changes what gets passed down the family line.Byssus 101, or the beard of the world's largest mollusk: how a single photo of the Pinna nobili...
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