Keira Soleore

Historical Romance Novelist
 
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Keira is an aspiring romance writer living among the towering mountains and evergreen trees of the Pacific Northwest. These days, she's working on one full-length novel and two novellas set in southern England of the 800s during the time of King Alfred the Great.

 

She's a published writer of more than seventy five feature articles and books reviews in international, national, and regional publications. As an editor and proofreader, she has worked with authors, magazines, book publishers, and nonprofit organizations. 
 

Her top hobbies are reading, researching history, journaling, walking and yoga, listening to folk and world music, and watching period movies. 


If she were a character in a book, she would be a medieval scribe of illuminated manuscripts and still unmarried at twenty-five (gasp!). No languishing and starving in a tower for her. She would be a maiden of independent means and have the wherewithal to afford a garrisoned keep.

 

  

                                                               

 

 

Write a Note

 

Keira loves to hear from friends and readers and always answers all her e-mail although it may take her a few days to get to it. Please send her a message at keira (at) keirasoleore (dot) com, or a tweet via Twitter. You may also ask her questions via FormSpring, or friend her on Facebook.

 

 

                                                             

 

 

Professional Affiliations

 

Keira is proud to be a member of the Romance Writers of America and three of its chapters: the Beau Monde for the Georgian/Regency era history enthusiasts, Seattle's Eastside RWA chapter, and the Greater Seattle RWA chapter. Every July finds her jetting across the country to attend RWA's national conference. She can also be spotted at the Emerald City conference in October and online on Twitter, Facebook, e-mail loops, author blogs, and reader message boards. 

 

Keira is the comments moderator of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance (IASPR) and of Candice Hern's message board. 

 

 

                                                                

 

  

Blog 

 
Keira blogs on weekdays at Cogitations and Meditations wherein she muses on the art and craft of writing, promotion and the business side of writing, the writer's life, and the history featured in her stories.
 
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Commentary and Articles

 

Keira's articles and coments on books have also been published in other forums:

 

• The Other Guy's Bride by Connie Brockway, American Chronicle, 11/26/11, link 

• Norwegian Folktales by Peter Christen Asbjornsen & Jorgen Moe, American Chronicle, 9/16/11, link

• Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, American Chronicle, 9/10/11, link

• A Short Guide to a Happy Life by Anna Quidlen, American Chronicle, 8/30/11, link 

• Magic Flutes by Eva Ibbotson, American Chronicle, 8/30/11, link

• All You Need To Be Impossibly French by Helena Frith Powell, American Chronicle, 8/29/11, link

• Why I Will Stop Reading Her, American Chronicle, 8/22/11, link

• Being Perfect by Anna Quindle, American Chronicle, 8/22/11, link

• P.D. James and Elizabeth George: Modern Murder Most English, Criminal Element, Macmillan, 5/14/11, link 

• The Trial Scene in Carrie Lofty's Scoundrel's Kiss, Heroes & Heartbreakers, Macmillan, 5/10/11, link

• Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper, Midwest Book Review, 5/5/11, link

• The Professor and the Madman, Midwest Book Review, 5/5/11, link

• Fresh Meat: Vanessa Kelly's My Favorite Countess, Heroes & Heartbreakers, Macmillan, 5/2/11, link 

• Why are Medievals Less Popular than Regencies?, Heroes & Heartbreakers, Macmillan, 4/19/11, link 

• The True Measure of a Book: Great Characters in Romance, Heroes & Heartbreakers, Macmillan, 4/8/11, link

• Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas, American Chronicle, 4/4/11, link

• The Maude Reed Tale by Norah Lofts, Midwest Book Review, 4/3/11, link

• Mable Riley: A Reliable Record of Humdrum Peril and Romance by Marthe Jocelyn, Midwest Book Review, 4/3/11, link

• Fresh Meat: Stephanie Laurens, Jacquie D’Alessandro, Candice Hern, and Mary Balogh’s It Happened One Season, Heroes & Heartbreakers, Macmillan, 3/29/11, link

• The Whey Water Version of Love: Christina Dodd’s "Candle in the Window," Heroes & Heartbreakers, Macmillan, 3/27/11, link 

• Hot for the Scots: Top 3 Julie Garwood Medievals, Heroes & Heartbreakers, Macmillan, 3/23/11, link

• How to Bake a Perfect Life, American Chronicle, 3/22/11, link

• The Confronting the Quakers Scene from Laura Kinsale’s "Flowers from the Storm," Heroes & Heartbreakers, Macmillan, 3/19/11, link

• I Grew Up On A Farm, American Chronicle, 3/15/11, link

• What Not To Wear, Midwest Book Review, 3/1/11, link

• Hattie, Get a Haircut! by Jenna Glatzer, Midwest Book Review, 3/1/11, link

• Manly Men in Red High Heels: Avon and Rothgar Bring It!, Heroes & Heartbreakers, Macmillan, 3/1/11, link

• Point-Counterpoint: Respect, Romance, and Academic Credentials, Read|React|Review, 2/23/11, link

• The Dunes of Friendship, American Chronicle, 2/14/11, link

• Eats, Shoots, and Leaves, American Chronicle, 2/14/11, link

• Emotions and Emotion Coaching of Children, American Chronicle, 2/3/11, link