Rose Lerner's Blog, page 39

I'll have Gisborne excommunicated!

Hey everyone, just wanted to let you know that I've joined the blogging team at Favorite Thing Ever! (It's…well, it's NOT a review site, because we ONLY talk about things we love. Have you noticed I like talking about things I love? This is SO the site for me. Tagline: "Hope [...:]

Important Update

News for this weekend:
1. This is the big one: some of you have probably already heard this, but the news was released on Friday that Dorchester, my publisher, is making major changes. Don't completely trust the article, though: my understanding is that they are shifting to a focus on e-books and trade paperbacks [...:]

Amid the slave stalls of the Cannibal Ghost Women

I can't remember if I mentioned that I would be in New York visiting family this week–anyway, my uncle, who knows me well, took me to a used bookstore. My purchases:
The Secret History of the South Sea Bubble: the World's First Great Financial Scandal by Malcolm Balen, about an 18th-century share scheme/fraud and the [...:]

One a penny, two a penny

So, in A Lily Among Thorns there's a scene where my heroine asks my hero to buy her a hot cross bun from a street vendor. She then gets frosting on her face, and he has to wipe it off.
Or, there WAS such a scene. My English friend Cat informs me that hot [...:]

New contest!

This month I am giving away two signed books (it's a package deal, if you win you get them both)!
Last weekend I went up to the San Juan Islands to visit a friend, and while I was there I got to see my friend Gayle! And in honor of the general awesomeness of summer, [...:]

Let's see Paul Allen's card.

My friend Cecilia got her new business cards! Aren't they fantastic? I would be insanely, murderously jealous like in that scene from American Psycho (it won't let me embed, sorry!) if my own fantastic business cards, designed by Gwen, had not arrived yesterday!

(I remain murderously jealous of Cecy's photography skills; alas, my camera [...:]

Let's see Paul Alllen's card.

My friend Cecilia got her new business cards! Aren't they fantastic? I would be insanely, murderously jealous like in that scene from American Psycho (it won't let me embed, sorry!) if my own fantastic business cards, designed by Gwen, had not arrived yesterday!

(I remain murderously jealous of Cecy's photography skills; alas, my camera [...:]

This is not the post you're looking for

I should be actually posting soon–I got my business cards and A Lily Among Thorns bookmarks in the mail today, Gwen and I went to see the new Robin Hood movie, and I have a fabulous signed book to give away–but in the meantime here are two things I found hilarious while reading the first [...:]

A certain little attendant demon or sprite

I went to Third Place Books a couple of days ago to pick up one of my birthday presents to myself—a shiny copy of Homes of Family Names in Great Britain by Henry Brougham Guppy, printed on their book machine!
It's basically a list he collected of English last names in all the different [...:]

A chip off the old family iceblock

Had a lovely geeky bonding moment with my co-worker today. We were talking about the Declaration of Independence, as you do, and then 1776: the Musical, which he wants me to see, and John and Abigail Adams, and that reminded me of something in my high school American history textbook, which I loved.
ME: It [...:]