First Lines from the Lefty Historical shortlist. By Catriona

Catriona writes: this job is never thankless – we get rounds of applause, actual stars beside reviews, bouquets of flowers, sweet emails, free books and royalties. And then there are days like today when Jim’s and my “job” is to welcome the other Historical Lefty nominees -  Susanna Calkins, Dianne Freeman, Laurie R King, and Ann Parker - to the Thursday blog. And the questions we decided to answer* are about first lines.

 

(*“decided to answer” or “Catriona mixed up the weeks” – you tell me.)

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