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Bianca's Cure


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Minor Black Figures


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Edith


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The Persian Pickle Club


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The Dying Day


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The Friday Bookshop


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The Encore


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Find out what makes great, arts-inspired fiction in a variety of genres:  mysteries, crime novels, historical fiction, thrillers, contemporary fiction, and more. Art In Fiction founder and author Carol M. Cram chats with some of the top novelists featured on Art In Fiction about their books and what inspires them as authors. Check out what your favorite authors have to say about books you've enjoyed reading or are looking forward to reading. There's something for everyone on The Art In Fiction Podcast!




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To Dance, To Dream: MORE Novels about Ba...

Back in 2019, I wrote about my own brief and unglamorous car...

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Piece by Piece: Novels Inspired by Quilt...

I don't quilt. I've watched enough of my quilting fr...

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Novels Inspired by Caravaggio

Caravaggio killed a man in a swordfight, fled Rome with a de...

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Novels Set in the World of Publishing an...

Every writer eventually wonders what happens on the other si...

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Bravo for Libraries! Novels Inspired by ...

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Build It and They Will Come: Amazing Arc...

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Ten MORE Novels Inspired by the Piano

Way back in 2019 when I launched Art In Fiction, I wrote one...

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Novels Inspired by Ceramics: Porcelain, ...

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