The "Difficult" Heroine
Write Chic just posted an excellent article discussing the career of the anti-heroine in fiction. She uses Mary, from The Seduction of the Crimson Rose, and our very own Penelope of Blood Lily as two of her prime examples. The first ones who come to mind for me are Scarlett, from Gone With the Wind,…
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Alex’s sisters are… Kat and Lizzy. We’ll be seeing Lizzy in the next book, The Mischief of the Mistletoe, where she plays a peripheral but not insignificant role. The twenty-five winners of the preview of The Mischief of the Mistletoe are listed below. Those whose names are listed here will receive a pdf of the…
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… to be announced later today. Stay tuned!
Read MorePink Pandemonium at Borders!
A great big THANK YOU to everyone who came out for the New York reading last night! And to the wonderful Borders folks who scrounged out every last chair in the store to try to find places for people to sit. It was an amazing evening, and I’m so thrilled to be part of such…
Read MoreNew York Reading Tonight!!
As you can tell from the multiple exclamation marks, I am super-excited to be reading tonight in my hometown, at one of my favorite bookstores. See you tonight at 7:00 at the Borders on 57th & Park!
Read MoreThank you, Yale Bookstore!
Thanks to everyone who came out tonight, and to the Yale Bookstore for the incredibly attractive book display.
Read MoreOn the topic of New Haven….
… an article about the seminar I’m teaching at Yale, from the New Haven Register. See you at the Bookstore at 6:00!
Read MoreNew Haven, 6:00, Tonight!
Be there or be… well, somewhere else. Tonight, at 6:00, I’ll be kicking off my author tour with a reading from The Betrayal of the Blood Lily at the Yale Bookstore. See you there!
Read MoreContests, Various
Hi, all! Just a reminder that the current website contest closes this coming Tuesday, January 26th. So get your answers in now! In the meantime, elsewhere on the web, The Reader is having a contest for a (now out of print) hardcover copy of the book that started it all, The Secret History of the…
Read MoreMini-Contest Winner
The line in question– “No, darling, I don’t mind in the least that you’ve quite ruined my prospects. I always wanted to be made a laughingstock in front of the ton.” — comes from page 56, line 5 of the paperback edition of The Seduction of the Crimson Rose, as part of Mary Alsworthy’s internal…
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