Elaine Aucoin Schroller
Do you love complex couples in historical fiction? Individuals who are strong and independent on their own, but who are even better together in a loving relationship?
My favorites are Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey and Helena Justina and Marcus Didius Falco. Thanks to the inspiration of those incredible characters, I've done my best to create my own complex couples—American, Australian, and French—in times and settings that are challenging and fascinating.
I'm a former technical writer who writes about love, loss, secrets, and redemption during challenging historical times. I became enthralled by stories of Americans and Australians working and fighting together in WWI France and WWII Australia and have published two novels, Dare Not Tell and The Bravest Soldiers, which feature Sophie and Joe Parker as main characters. My short story “Ripples In a Pond” in Feisty Deeds: Historical Fictions of Daring Women, is a companion piece to my novels.
When I'm not writing Sophie and Joe’s next chapter or dreaming up travel plans for fun and research, I wrangle the rescue cocker spaniels that I and my husband have welcomed into our home and hearts.
In between writing, I format other authors' books for publication as well as my own books. I'd love to format your paperback and epub! Send me an email or message me on Instgram or Facebook.
I'm a member of the Historical Novel Society, the Women's Fiction Writers Association, and The Authors Guild.
P.S. I hope you love reading my books as much as I've loved writing them!
Do you love complex couples in historical fiction? Individuals who are strong and independent on their own, but who are even better together in a loving relationship?
My favorites are Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey and Helena Justina and Marcus Didius Falco. Thanks to the inspiration of those incredible characters, I've done my best to create my own complex couples—American, Australian, and French—in times and settings that are...
Books
Dare Not Tell
Love and Loss, Secrets, and Redemption in WWI France and Australia
Twenty years after he left WWI’s battlefields, Australian Joe Parker thinks he has tamed all his demons. His American wife Sophie, a wartime nurse, thinks she knows all his secrets. He hasn’t. She doesn’t.
July 1939. The Parkers are looking forward to a long-delayed honeymoon in France before they sail home to Sydney. But visiting a site where...
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The Bravest Soldiers
Love and Longing in WWII Australia and the South West Pacific Area
A mother’s love. A new love. As the Pacific War looms ever closer to Australia, will waiting and wondering break their hearts?
September 1939. Sophie Parker nursed wounded soldiers in France during the Great War. She knows the physical and mental devastation war can wreak on hearts, minds, and bodies. When WWII breaks out, and Australia is called...
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Feisty Deeds: Historical Fictions of Daring Women
My short story “Ripples In a Pond” in Feisty Deeds: Historical Fictions of Daring Women, is a companion piece to my novels.
Feisty women spanning six centuries ...
The twenty-three stories in this collection depict ordinary women—from the 1470s to the 1970s—who meet life’s challenges with fierce determination.
An unhappy housewife in 1950s...
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Blog
Or, what the heck was I thinking? There are no numbered steps or bullet points in novels!
I devoured historical fiction and historical mysteries on nights and weekends as a way to escape from writing about computer software during the workday.
In all that time, it never occurred to me that I could write a novel. And then another one. Until...
The first glimmers of inspiration came from Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, an Australian TV series set in 1929 that often includes WWI-related characters...
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