Rose Lerner's Blog, page 28
July 29, 2013
I’VE GOT THE WORLD ON A STRING
EEEEEEEEEEEE! Look what my friend gave me! Yes! It’s a KitchenAid stand mixer! Mine died a couple of years ago and I have YEARNED, I have read recipes and despaired of making them, but now ALL THAT IS AT AN END. Thank youuuuuuu, kind friend! What should I make first? I am strongly considering this [...]
July 23, 2013
I can never be thankful enough
From The Angel in the House: “In Coelebs [in Search of a Wife, a novel by Hannah More], Charles, the hero of the novel, speaks to the Stanleys’ lame gardener, who details all the kind things Lucilla and her family have done for him. The gardener ends his recital with, ‘At Christmas they give me [...]
July 15, 2013
First draft!
I swear I meant to post today, but guys, I am LITERALLY THREE SCENES AWAY (maybe four, whatever, LESS THAN FIVE IS THE POINT, LESS THAN FIVE) FROM THE END OF A ROUGH DRAFT OF CRIMSON JOY. So I spent all morning working on that, instead. There is nothing like the feeling of being ALMOST [...]
I swear I meant to post today, but guys, I am LITERALLY T...
I swear I meant to post today, but guys, I am LITERALLY THREE SCENES AWAY (maybe four, whatever, LESS THAN FIVE IS THE POINT, LESS THAN FIVE) FROM THE END OF A ROUGH DRAFT OF CRIMSON JOY. So I spent all morning working on that, instead. There is nothing like the feeling of being ALMOST [...]
July 8, 2013
New contest: “A Lady Awakened” by Cecilia Grant!
So…I just read the third Blackshear book, A Woman Entangled, which is a bit of a problem because ALL I WANT TO DO RIGHT NOW IS TALK ABOUT HOW GREAT THAT BOOK IS. So great! Not to mention perfectly structured and completely satisfying all the way to the last page. I ended that book with [...]
July 1, 2013
Ice cream!
My last regular History Hoydens post is up: Regency ice cream recipes, and a few modern ones.
June 24, 2013
Thrilling news!!!
Samhain has picked up In for a Penny and A Lily Among Thorns and will be rereleasing them in 6/14 and 9/14 respectively! Wooooooo!
June 17, 2013
Embellishing poverty itself
From The Angel Out of the House, discussing Sarah Scott’s 1762 novel Millenium Hall, about a charity-working proto-commune for unmarried gentlewomen: “What the narrator first notices about the ladies’ schools is that the pupils are ‘perfectly clean’ and always busy. The narrator uses the word ‘clean’ every time he brings up the subject of the [...]
June 10, 2013
Fast and loose
New History Hoydens post up about Regency scams and con artists! “Pin-and-girdle” and “prick-the-garter” are two names for the same game, in which a belt or long piece of cloth is doubled and then folded a number of times, then held in the swindler’s hand. The flat is given a pin and bets that he [...]
June 3, 2013
New contest: “The Black Hawk” by Joanna Bourne
Do I even need to say anything about this book? Or can I just link to the 2012 AllAboutRomance reader poll, in which this book won in SEVEN CATEGORIES? I’ll just list those categories, shall I? Best Romance Best Historical Romance Not Set in the U.K. Biggest Tearjerker (Tied with Eloisa James’s When Beauty Tamed [...]
