Featured Author Interview: Kimberly Sullivan

Barb is joined by Featured Author Kimberly Sullivan, author of Rome's Last Noble Palace to talk about indie publishing, writing about feisty women, and the inspiration behind Rome's Last Noble Palace.
Kimberly grew up in the suburbs of Boston and in Saratoga Springs, New York, although she now calls the Harlem neighborhood of New York City home when she’s back in the US.
She majored in political science and history at Cornell University and earned her MBA, with a concentration in strategy and marketing, from Bocconi University Business School in Milan.
Afflicted with a severe case of Wanderlust, she worked in journalism and government in the US, Czech Republic and Austria, before settling down in Rome, where she works in international development, and writes fiction any chance she gets.
She is a member of the Women’s Fiction Writers Association and The Historical Novel Society and has published four novels Three Coins, Dark Blue Waves, In The Shadow of The Apennines, and Rome’s Last Noble Palace - which I loved - and one short story collection, Drink Wine and Be Beautiful. Her next book, Easter at The Three Coins Inn, will be out later this year.
ROME'S LAST NOBLE PALACE
FROM THE BACK COVER
Two women. Two different centuries. One attic room
American Isabelle Field has been shipped off to Rome to live with her aunt, Princess Elizabeth Brancaccio. Isabelle’s aunt and mother share a common goal - replicating Elizabeth’s success by marrying Isabelle off to a European nobleman.
But Rome in 1896 is on the cusp of a new century and Isabelle longs for more than a titled husband. She secretly designs costumes for Rome’s burgeoning theatre environment and dreams of opening a fashion atelier. Can she gather the courage to forge a life for herself, even if it means going against expectations?
Over a century later, doctoral candidate Sophie Nouri can’t believe her good fortune when she is selected to intern in Rome’s Near Eastern Art Museum. Even better, the position includes an attic apartment in the spectacular museum property, the Palazzo Brancaccio.
Overseeing a major exhibition is stressful, but tension alone can’t explain the disturbing nighttime presence in the deserted hallways of the grand palace - especially one no one else can sense. Almost as if a spectral being is trying to communicate with Sophie directly. Or warn her.
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Instagram: / kimberlyinrome
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