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Blog tour

My Lily blog tour got off to a great start at History Hoydens last week, where I talked about chemistry during the Regency period.
Coming up, here's the schedule (I'll still be adding a couple more dates but this is what I've got scheduled at the moment):
10/3: A Q&A at Susanna Fraser's blog about beta heroes, [...]

You Need A Thneed!

I was skimming my tumblr dashboard and saw someone had posted this, from The Lorax:

I…sometimes cry at this part of the show. But if I'm being honest, the Onceler is still my favorite character.

He's got a fairly complex characterization and arc, doesn't he? He's motivated by a genuine love for the Truffula [...]

"A Lily Among Thorns" discussion post

Hi everyone! This is the discussion and questions post for A Lily Among Thorns. Tell me what you thought! If there's anything you want to know (about the book, about writing the book, about characters in the book, about what happens next, anything really), this is the place to ask! And [...]

EEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Guys, A Lily Among Thorns is up on Kindle! Also NOOK! (Probably lots of other places too…I'll be linking to lots of different sellers and formats over the next few days. Remember, you can read the first chapter here!)

Melodramatic phrases comfort the soul

I saw someone on Tumblr talking about John Wilkes Booth's death today, and his last words were so melodramatic I was fascinated. Here's the whole story, from his Wikipedia article:
Before dawn on April 26, the soldiers caught up with the fugitives, who were hiding in Garrett's tobacco barn. David Herold surrendered, but Booth refused [...]

"Self-Professed Cuckolds of Ticehurst" would be a good name for a band. Maybe too long.

Another gem from The Folklore of Sussex. She's talking about various customs requiring men to dress up wearing horns:
"Bawdy humor of this sort is exemplified in Sussex by the eighteenth-century Cock Fair at Ticehurst, at which, according to the Sussex Weekly Advertiser's report of an unfortunate street accident which spoilt the fun in [...]

Giveaway!

I've got an interview up over at Kat Latham's blog! She asked really cool questions which is always exciting–I may have gone into embarrassing depth on the whole "Jane Austen vs. Charlotte Bronte" thing. I'm also giving away a book!
A sample:
My relationship with Jane Austen is really complicated and my relationship with Charlotte [...]

Do we fight for the right to a night at the opera now?

Went to the new staging of Les Mis at the 5th Avenue Theater on Saturday! So freaking good!

Enjolras was my favorite as always! SUCH a crush on that guy. So I was in luck as he was played by Jeremy Hays, a fellow who 1) was very talented and 2) has REALLY [...]

I carried a watermelon

When a friend read my upcoming A Lily Among Thorns, she pointed out that my heroine is good at everything. She said it got a little improbable.
It's a totally fair criticism: I did originally intend Serena to be the female version of the "good at everything but feelings," dark-pasted alpha hero. [...]

The majority took the matter good-humoredly

This folklore book continues to be fascinating. There's a section on pseudo-legal rituals created to get around perceived problems with the law. The most shocking and interesting is of course wife-selling.

"That invaluable repository of scandal, the Sussex Weekly Advertiser, describes several cases: at Ninfield in November 1790 a man sold his [...]