David NeilsoninLit UpThe Prussian Dispatch ExcerptAn Excerpt from David Neilson’s first Sophie Rathenau historical thriller.Aug 13, 20201Aug 13, 20201
David NeilsoninFrom the LibraryDoes Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” Predict Trump?Willy Loman is Donald Trump’s secret identityJul 26, 20204Jul 26, 20204
David NeilsonLady Hester Stanhope, Who Did Exactly As She PleasedI was asked recently if the main character of my historical crime series, active in Mozart’s Vienna, is not a sight tooactive. Don’t I…Jul 15, 20191Jul 15, 20191
David NeilsonForty Loves, Sweet & Bitter-SweetWith thanks to Toni Maguire for the prompt!Mar 10, 20192Mar 10, 20192
David NeilsonSweet Nightingale, iv of ivThe wagon from Styria, heaped with sacks of Hungarian contraband, bumped along Carinthian Street. In this fog I could barely make out the…Jul 22, 20182Jul 22, 20182
David NeilsonWriting Historical Novels — How Accurate Should You Be?Destinni paced the floor of her ancestral manor. Did Captain Rick FitzHazard, the only man she had ever loved, swing from the gallows like…Nov 23, 20174Nov 23, 20174
David NeilsonMozart’s Lowlife LibrettistThe amazing highs and lows of Lorenzo da Ponte, the man who wrote Mozart’s lyricsNov 19, 20174Nov 19, 20174