Anna Lucia
@annaluciaauthor.bsky.social
Author Broken Madonna, mysterious visions and powerful secrets in the mountains of post-WW2 Italy.
Chair of Trustees New Writing South.
Italy. Feminism. Women Catholic Church. Mystics.
www.annalucia.co.uk https://mybook.to/uvDXUk
Chair of Trustees New Writing South.
Italy. Feminism. Women Catholic Church. Mystics.
www.annalucia.co.uk https://mybook.to/uvDXUk
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Anna Lucia
@annaluciaauthor.bsky.social
· Mar 21
Had fun creating this book trailer #historicalfiction #Italy
Lovely review Historical Novel Society of my novel Broken Madonna #historicalfiction
My #bookreview of @annaluciaauthor.bsky.social's Broken Madonna #historicalfiction #italia for @histnovsoc.bsky.social historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/brok... 'a lyrical, elegiac and empathetic portrait of a small-town community and a vanished way of life'
November 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Lovely review Historical Novel Society of my novel Broken Madonna #historicalfiction
Lots of advice for authors aspiring to be traditionally published - do your research, enter with your eyes open, talk to other authors, share your work, think about your goals & advocate for yourself. All sound advice thanks @newwritingsouth.bsky.social and Katie Packer for an honest hour
**Publishing Question Time**
An opportunity to put your questions to a publishing professional online.
Thursday, 15 May: Traditional Publishing Question Time with Katie Packer, Editorial Director at Trapeze:
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#GetPublished #PublishingTips #PublishingQuestions
An opportunity to put your questions to a publishing professional online.
Thursday, 15 May: Traditional Publishing Question Time with Katie Packer, Editorial Director at Trapeze:
newwritingsouth.com/traditional-...
#GetPublished #PublishingTips #PublishingQuestions
May 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Lots of advice for authors aspiring to be traditionally published - do your research, enter with your eyes open, talk to other authors, share your work, think about your goals & advocate for yourself. All sound advice thanks @newwritingsouth.bsky.social and Katie Packer for an honest hour
Last chance for United States readers - closes 14/4 #HistoricalFiction #Italy
United States readers of #Italy #HistoricalFiction enter now: Set in the mountains of post-WW2 Italy, BROKEN MADONNA is a beautifully told story where the mysterious visions of a fragile girl lead to a reckoning with the haunting secrets of the past. bit.ly/41TELFb
April 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Last chance for United States readers - closes 14/4 #HistoricalFiction #Italy
United States readers of #Italy #HistoricalFiction enter now: Set in the mountains of post-WW2 Italy, BROKEN MADONNA is a beautifully told story where the mysterious visions of a fragile girl lead to a reckoning with the haunting secrets of the past. bit.ly/41TELFb
March 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
United States readers of #Italy #HistoricalFiction enter now: Set in the mountains of post-WW2 Italy, BROKEN MADONNA is a beautifully told story where the mysterious visions of a fragile girl lead to a reckoning with the haunting secrets of the past. bit.ly/41TELFb
Had fun creating this book trailer #historicalfiction #Italy
March 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Had fun creating this book trailer #historicalfiction #Italy
Reposted by Anna Lucia
What an absolutely brilliant day we had in Brighton this weekend. We can’t wait for more inspiring conversations in two weeks time!
This is what @dorothykoomson.bsky.social has to say about Forthwrite Festival - join us on 30th March at The Hawth in Crawley 🎟️ forthwrite.uk/forthwrite-f...
This is what @dorothykoomson.bsky.social has to say about Forthwrite Festival - join us on 30th March at The Hawth in Crawley 🎟️ forthwrite.uk/forthwrite-f...
March 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
What an absolutely brilliant day we had in Brighton this weekend. We can’t wait for more inspiring conversations in two weeks time!
This is what @dorothykoomson.bsky.social has to say about Forthwrite Festival - join us on 30th March at The Hawth in Crawley 🎟️ forthwrite.uk/forthwrite-f...
This is what @dorothykoomson.bsky.social has to say about Forthwrite Festival - join us on 30th March at The Hawth in Crawley 🎟️ forthwrite.uk/forthwrite-f...
Looking forward to sharing experiences for women #writers with @annadavidson.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Looking forward to sharing experiences for women #writers with @annadavidson.bsky.social
St. Scolastica:10 Feb is her day, founder first Benedictine order of nuns, a woman ahead of her time. She has a hand in my 1949 Italy set novel Broken Madonna: mysterious visions of a young girl which lead to a reckoning with the haunting secrets of the past. bit.ly/3CJ7iEK #stscholastica
Hello & Happy Santa Scolastica Day!
Life has been a bit of a whirl since the launch, not least with Broken Madonna's first trip to Italy - here in the beautiful old town of Bergamo. Each day has brought either new connections, lovely re...
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February 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
St. Scolastica:10 Feb is her day, founder first Benedictine order of nuns, a woman ahead of her time. She has a hand in my 1949 Italy set novel Broken Madonna: mysterious visions of a young girl which lead to a reckoning with the haunting secrets of the past. bit.ly/3CJ7iEK #stscholastica
Reposted by Anna Lucia
Happy World Pizza Day! 🍕
Italy celebrates World Pizza Day
Four out of 10 families in Italy make their own pizza at home, according to the Italian agricultural lobby Coldiretti, ahead of World Pizza Day on Friday.
www.wantedinrome.com
January 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Happy World Pizza Day! 🍕
First spot of Broken Madonna in my local library (Hove) by a friend! Feels very special, will be looking to see if it’s gone when I return my current loans! #Hove
January 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
First spot of Broken Madonna in my local library (Hove) by a friend! Feels very special, will be looking to see if it’s gone when I return my current loans! #Hove
Broken Madonna gets to some of the best places! So unexpected and what synchronicity after I’d just written about Broken Madonna being part of a Catholic moment. annalucia.co.uk/so/43PEi6Jg6...
December 17, 2024 at 5:24 PM
Broken Madonna gets to some of the best places! So unexpected and what synchronicity after I’d just written about Broken Madonna being part of a Catholic moment. annalucia.co.uk/so/43PEi6Jg6...
Well said!
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Nothing is more gratifying to authors than feedback from readers who truly understand & appreciate their work
December 11, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Well said!
Broken Madonna is No.1 Amazon Hot New Release in Religious Mystery! So proud! If you have a Kindle Unlimited subscription join the wave and download. Mysterious visions & powerful secrets in post #WW2 Italy
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bit.ly/3OexHMM
December 11, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Broken Madonna is No.1 Amazon Hot New Release in Religious Mystery! So proud! If you have a Kindle Unlimited subscription join the wave and download. Mysterious visions & powerful secrets in post #WW2 Italy
bit.ly/3OexHMM
bit.ly/3OexHMM
So enjoyed talking miracles, shrines, the role of the church in #Italy post-WW2, whether I consider myself British or Italian and all aspects of publishing for writers, including the importance of finding your writing tribe. #brokenmadonna #histfic
Podcast of the week - it was a pleasure talking to author Anna Lucia about her debut book Broken Madonna, a powerful epic set in post-war Italy, where the mysterious visions of a fragile girl lead to a reckoning with the haunting secrets of the past.
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December 4, 2024 at 3:51 PM
So enjoyed talking miracles, shrines, the role of the church in #Italy post-WW2, whether I consider myself British or Italian and all aspects of publishing for writers, including the importance of finding your writing tribe. #brokenmadonna #histfic
A #Catholic moment? Saw Conclave packed Duke of Yorks #Brighton 2 weeks after launch my novel Broken Madonna there. Ralph Fiennes brilliant nuance. Power play & intrigue also at heart Broken Madonna but female perspective, gaining following #Amazon #Bestseller. Who says religion isn’t of interest?
December 3, 2024 at 10:24 AM
A #Catholic moment? Saw Conclave packed Duke of Yorks #Brighton 2 weeks after launch my novel Broken Madonna there. Ralph Fiennes brilliant nuance. Power play & intrigue also at heart Broken Madonna but female perspective, gaining following #Amazon #Bestseller. Who says religion isn’t of interest?
Honoured to read @ecameron.bsky.social beautiful words from #OurPreciousEarth an important piece of fiction about defending nature in our beloved Sussex countryside
Thanks to @annaluciaauthor.bsky.social for her beautiful reading from my novel #OurPreciousEarth
Set in West Sussex, it tells the story of a community’s fight to save an ancient oak from being felled to make way for a bypass & the importance of our connection with nature.
#naturewriting 🦅🦇🪰🌳
Set in West Sussex, it tells the story of a community’s fight to save an ancient oak from being felled to make way for a bypass & the importance of our connection with nature.
#naturewriting 🦅🦇🪰🌳
November 30, 2024 at 8:40 AM
Honoured to read @ecameron.bsky.social beautiful words from #OurPreciousEarth an important piece of fiction about defending nature in our beloved Sussex countryside
Great photo I’m sure your presentation on the River #Po will go down a storm
Just choosing photos for my presentation about the river #Po tonight and this is one of my favourites (from Villanova Marchesana): the vast, slow river... a village nestling under the banks... the grey skies. Antonioni called the Po "as flat as asphalt".
November 28, 2024 at 10:03 AM
Great photo I’m sure your presentation on the River #Po will go down a storm
This passage went down well as a reading at launch of Broken Madonna, sets scene of late ‘30s #Italy & dilemma of a new mother. Thanks for sharing @annerandomthings.bsky.social
#histfic
#histfic
Broken Madonna by Anna Lucia BLOG TOUR #BrokenMadonna #RandomThingsTours #BookExtract
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Broken Madonna by Anna Lucia BLOG TOUR #BrokenMadonna @AHaywardWriter @RandomTTours #BookExtract
Italy 1949 At an orphanage in the poverty-stricken Apennine Mountains, 15-year-old Adelina has only one younger friend - enigmatic, fragil...
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November 27, 2024 at 9:46 AM
This passage went down well as a reading at launch of Broken Madonna, sets scene of late ‘30s #Italy & dilemma of a new mother. Thanks for sharing @annerandomthings.bsky.social
#histfic
#histfic
Good thinking!
November 25, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Good thinking!
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You can read an excerpt from #TheMaidenofFlorence on my publisher's website, along with an interview which gives the background to the book #HistoricalFiction #Renaissance #MeToo www.fairlightbooks.co.uk/katherine-me...
Interview with Katherine Mezzacappa and an exclusive extract
Katherine Mezzacappa is an Irish author currently living in Carrara, northern Tuscany. Her novel The Maiden of Florence is a ...
www.fairlightbooks.co.uk
November 21, 2024 at 9:57 PM
You can read an excerpt from #TheMaidenofFlorence on my publisher's website, along with an interview which gives the background to the book #HistoricalFiction #Renaissance #MeToo www.fairlightbooks.co.uk/katherine-me...
I’m delighted to be on the book blog tour next week for Broken Madonna by Anna Lucia which has just launched. My review will be posted on Substack followed by an author chat with Anna. #italywriters
November 25, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Hi! New here, I’m Anna a #histfic #bookclub author of Broken Madonna set ‘49 #Italy mysterious visions & powerful secrets. If you’re interested in #Italy #Mysticism #Women in Catholic Church please follow & I’ll follow back would like to build a like-minded community here. Thanks
November 25, 2024 at 12:55 PM