Ask the Author: Laura Andersen
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Laura Andersen
Well, this is what I usually say: "No one in those families could ever know for certain." There just weren't the scientific options for discovery. And frankly, even if there had been, I pretty much imagine Dominic being the one who would refuse to even bring up the question :)
I will admit only that, as far as I'm concerned, Lucette's blue eyes are significant.
I will admit only that, as far as I'm concerned, Lucette's blue eyes are significant.
Laura Andersen
I'm currently working on a novel for Random House that will be announced this fall. It will be different from what I've written before--still involving historical aspects, but it's not alternate history and its not straight historical fiction. I seem to like writing twisted history :) I'm also working on a YA historical for submission and keeping my fingers crossed that I can break into that market!
Laura Andersen
Oh my goodness, the funny thing is that I recently wrote a blog post about my favorite historical binges and Jean Plaidy was on there for her books written as Victoria Holt. I did totally read many of her Plaidy historicals when I was young . . . I knew that shelf in the library intimately well! . . . but my favorite historical of hers was written as Victoria Holt: My Enemy, the Queen. All about Lettice Devereux???, who ended up as Robert Dudley's wife and thus earned the enmity of Queen Elizabeth. I've always been a Tudor fan :)
Laura Andersen
Ha! That would be awesome :) I love both Reign and The Tudors and would love to see the Boleyn books go the same way. But that is one of the (many) things out of my control. Here's hoping that someday someone who works in that kind of production reads one of my books and happens to love them! I promise if that ever happens I will scream it to the internet!
Laura Andersen
I am so sorry! I knew I had one sitting on my table and I sent a message to the person I thought I'd missed on Twitter . . . and then life and trauma and car accidents happened and I haven't followed up! Accept my apologies and I'll try to make it up to you with a good package :)
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laurawriter@ymail.com
Send your address to:
laurawriter@ymail.com
Laura Andersen
I love talking about my favorites! Epic historicals . . .
1. THE LYMOND CHRONICLES by Dorothy Dunnett. Six books featuring Francis Crawford of Lymond, a Scots adventurer in the mid-16th century. Not everyone loves Dunnett's books--they are crammed with epigrams and Latin quotes and bits of philosophy and science--but Francis Crawford and those within his life are well worth the effort. War, treason, assassination, personal vendettas, kidnapped children, mad Russian tsars, deadly political games . . . and a love story that takes its times, and then crushes the reader with passion and sacrifice.
2. Anything by Sharon Kay Penman. My favorite single book of hers is HERE BE DRAGONS, about Llewellyn the Great, Prince of Wales in the late 12th/early 13th century and his marriage to Joanna, illegitimate daughter of King John of England.
3. And another Welsh book--or four books. THE BROTHERS OF GWYNEDD QUARTET by Edith Pargeter. About Llewellyn the Great's grandson of the same name and how this last Prince Llewellyn fought against his own family as well as English power to preserve Welsh independence. (Spoiler alert: it did not end well.)
4. And for something very different . . . an epic stand-alone novel of WWII--CODE NAME VERITY by Elizabeth Wein. An English woman has been captured by the Germans in France. Her best friend, a pilot, is stranded in enemy territory. Can either one of them survive?
1. THE LYMOND CHRONICLES by Dorothy Dunnett. Six books featuring Francis Crawford of Lymond, a Scots adventurer in the mid-16th century. Not everyone loves Dunnett's books--they are crammed with epigrams and Latin quotes and bits of philosophy and science--but Francis Crawford and those within his life are well worth the effort. War, treason, assassination, personal vendettas, kidnapped children, mad Russian tsars, deadly political games . . . and a love story that takes its times, and then crushes the reader with passion and sacrifice.
2. Anything by Sharon Kay Penman. My favorite single book of hers is HERE BE DRAGONS, about Llewellyn the Great, Prince of Wales in the late 12th/early 13th century and his marriage to Joanna, illegitimate daughter of King John of England.
3. And another Welsh book--or four books. THE BROTHERS OF GWYNEDD QUARTET by Edith Pargeter. About Llewellyn the Great's grandson of the same name and how this last Prince Llewellyn fought against his own family as well as English power to preserve Welsh independence. (Spoiler alert: it did not end well.)
4. And for something very different . . . an epic stand-alone novel of WWII--CODE NAME VERITY by Elizabeth Wein. An English woman has been captured by the Germans in France. Her best friend, a pilot, is stranded in enemy territory. Can either one of them survive?
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