Fiction Topics & Clients

Attention event coordinators, fiction and book groups, writers’ organizations and purveyors of inspiration for those who love history.

Let a Bestselling Author Entertain and Inspire Your Audiences

The author of six novels published to high acclaim, and an Emmy-award winning TV and radio broadcaster and sought-after event speaker, Ciji Ware offers spell-binding tales of living the writers’ life and researching her books the world over, as well as sharing with budding authors the benefit of her practical wisdom gleaned from a multi-media professional writing career spanning three decades.

I. TOPICS For Lovers of Literature

• In The Footsteps of a Scottish Duchess: Tracing the history of the flamboyant 18th c. political powerhouse: Jane Maxwell, 4th Duchess of Gordon
• The Fatal Friendship: Marie Antoinette and the mysterious Count Axel Von Fersen of Sweden
• Fine Bone China: The Women in Josiah Wedgwood’s World
• Wicked Company: 18th c. Professional Women Playwrights at Covent Garden and Drury Lane
• Jane Austen and Theatrical Allusions: The Plays She Saw; The Plays She Applauded
• The Queen’s Harp: Professional Women Musicians and Painters in the Court of Marie Antoinette
• A Grand Design: Julia Morgan’s Restoration of Nob Hill’s Fairmont Hotel Following the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Firestorm
• Romantic Fiction: The Real Bestsellers
• Who Did I Think I Was? Searching for Ancestors While Writing Historical Fiction
• Cottages, Cornwall, and Carmel: The Impact of An Author’s History on Writing Historical Fiction
• Genetic Memory: How Brain Science Helped Me Write Historical Fiction
• History and Historical Fiction: Telling Tales with Some Truth to Them

II. TOPICS For Aspiring Writers

• Writing the First Novel
• “C” is for Conflict
• Location, Location, Location: Setting as a Character in the Novel
• Fact vs. Fiction: Getting It Right Even if You Make It Up
• Parlaying Fact into Fiction: Portraying A Sense of Place Without Alarming the Natives
• Effective Research
• Another Time, Another Place: Using Description to Establish Setting, Mood, and Character in Paranormal Fiction
• What is Your Theme? Answer That and You’ve Got a Novel!
• Writers Reinventing Themselves: Transforming Basic Writing Skills into the Digital Age
• Blogging, Tweeting, and Facing the Future: How Writers Can Survive in the New Publishing Paradigm
• A Print Veteran Ventures into the Dot Com World for Fun and Profit
• Promoting Yourself and Your Writing in the Digital Age