"Empires crumble but love endures."
? * Mid-life * mid-height * mid-weight * reasonably happy * reader of all genres * fiction-fabricator *
? Completed:
***Before He Was Red / political intrigue / forbidden love / Ottoman empire
? Completed 1st draft ? WATTYS 2024 Shortlist ?
***The Blue Hour / political intrigue / Ottoman empire / forbidden love
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cstahle
Sep 17, 2025 05:59PM
Some of you may have read my historical novel The Blue Hour which was shortlisted for the Wattys2024. Since then it’s been edited twice. I cut 30.000 words, gave it the new title Before He Was Red...View all Conversations
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Before He Was Red
Amid the political turbulence of Istanbul in 1876, during the Ottoman Empire's "summer of three sultans...
The Blue Hour
Inspired by true events, 'The Blue Hour' is a story of political intrigue and doomed love set in the dying da...