The Ziegfeld Girls sparkled under the lights β but they also carried the weight of silence.
My new blog explores the real world behind Bright Light, a short story about glamour, grit, and women rewriting their own scripts.
rjverity.com/midnight-frolics
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11.06.2025 14:05 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Ever tried to learn a musical instrument as an adult?
In my short story Bright Light, Daisyβs future depends on it. Sheβs got a secondhand violin, sore fingers and everything to prove.
You can download the story here: www.rjverity.com
#writing #fiction #music
09.06.2025 08:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"Write the story youβve been waiting for. Toni Morrison knew the power of creating what the world was missing." βοΈπ #AmWriting #ToniMorrison #WritersInspire
04.06.2025 08:09 β π 10 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
The Golden Age Begins: Cinema in the 1920s
In theatres from London to New York, the silent stars of the silver screenΒ captivated audiences
I just wrote about the golden age of cinema β the dazzle, the darkness, and how it shaped my story Bright Light.
www.rjverity.com/post/the-gol...
#HistoricalFiction #1920sCinema #OldHollywood
03.06.2025 08:20 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Bright Light Book Cover by RJ Verity
My short story Bright Light is now free to download π
mybook.to/BrightLight
#histfic #freereads #indieauthors #amwriting #shortstories
02.06.2025 17:27 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Don't write happiness, write the promise of it ~ Achy Objeas
#Quotes #Writing #Inspiration
02.06.2025 08:52 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
π©° βWhat would you take if you ran away to chase your dream?β
#BrightLight #historicalfiction #IndieAuthor
30.05.2025 17:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
βThey were perfect. Devastatingly perfect.β
This quote comes just before Daisy leaves Paris forever.
Have you ever owned something that holds part of your identity?
Watch Daisy's journey in the Bright Light trailer
π¬ youtu.be/k9mzPFyAekE?...
#BrightLightStory #HistoricalFiction #IndieAuthor
28.05.2025 17:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Watch the trailer to historical fiction short story - Bright Light.New York, October 1921Eighteen-year-old Daisy Briscoe steps off a boat in New York with a ...
Bright Light: The Trailer
π’ Bright Light trailer drop! "From chorus lines to steamships β meet Daisy."
youtu.be/k9mzPFyAekE?...
#BrightLightStory #HistoricalFiction #IndieAuthor
28.05.2025 11:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
βοΈ Recently published: A Transatlantic Crossing aboard the Berengaria
Not just a vessel of transport but a symbol of an era defined by ambition, luxury and change.
All aboard β www.rjverity.com/post/a-trans...
#HistoricalFiction #WritingLife #Berengaria
24.05.2025 12:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Book reader, book critic, author "News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist." Next memoir, "Ghosts of Fourth Street," pubs in 2026. I review for StarTribune, Washington Post, Boston Globe, LATimes and elsewhere. Teach in MFA program at UGA-Athens.
Historian, professor, book review editor, and reader, currently writing a book about Black and white New Yorkers' experiences with yellow fever during the 1790s.
Storyteller about storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
Associate Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: HOW STORIES ARE PLAYED (#TTRPG Actual Play & digital storytelling performance)
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Writer and poet | Editor of The Yale Review | Professor of Creative Writing at Yale | playing with a Substack about writing
Most recent book: THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM: REIMAGINING CHRONIC ILLNESS, which was a finalist for the nonfiction National Book Award.
The official account of the Journal of Womenβs History, edited by Sandie HolguΓn and Jennifer J. Davis. Book Review Editor, Ronnie Grinberg. Website: jwomenshistory.org journal site: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/100
Writing in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, etc. Contributing Editor, Yale Review. President, National Book Critics Circle. Rep: Duvall Osteen
The Self-Pub Hub (Indie Book Review Site)
Accepting book submissions now!
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Historical Fiction Author from Pembrokeshire, Wales π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώ www.tonyriches.com Visit my #Writing #Blog The Writing Desk https://tonyriches.blogspot.com/ #Podcast https://tonyriches.podbean.com/ #Tudors #Elizabethan #HistoricalFiction
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Words guy. Writer of Island at the Edge of War, a historical novel set in 16th century Croatia, and Wish Servant, a horror. Lover of all things.
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