Author: Rose Lerner

Blog tour master post

ETA: The blog tour is complete! All links are below.

Tomorrow kicks off my blog tour for True Pretenses! I’m really excited for this one, guys. Follow along for fun discussions, giveaways, &c. This post will be updated with links as guest posts go live.

1/6/15 – Smexy Books – Interview with Mandi about writing a shleppy hero, cross-class and cross-cultural romance, and more.
1/7 – History Hoydens – Unveiling the academic cover for True Pretenses and taking requests from commenters.
1/8 – Happy Ever After – Zoe Archer, Elizabeth Boyle, Louisa Edwards and I share our favorite con artist romances of page and screen.
1/9 – Theresa Romain and I did a two-part chat/mutual interview in which we talk about everything from character casting to mall singers to “manflirting” as an aristocratic cultural marker – part 1 at her blog – part 2 at mine.
1/12 – Romance at Random – the inspiration for True Pretenses and the difference between a romance and a tragedy.
1/13 – Heroes & Heartbreakers – con artist myth vs. reality. SPOILER: You CAN con an honest man.
1/14 – Angieville – Q&A – favorite fictional heroes, the word association game, and more.
1/15 – Smitten by Books – my favorite marriage of convenience romances.
1/16 – The Romance Dish – Q&A – conflict, time travel bodyswap, lucky New Year’s foods and more.
1/18 – Risky Regencies – Q&A – research, TV, the etymology of “swindler” and more.
1/19 – All About Romance – anti-Semitism and intermarriage in the Regency.
1/20 – bookworm2bookworm – how romance novels model breaking out of entrenched emotional patterns.

Spoiler-friendly "True Pretenses" discussion post

Hi everyone! This is a spoiler-friendly discussion and questions post for True Pretenses. I’d love to hear anything you have to say about the book! And if there’s anything you want to ask me (about the book, about writing the book, about characters in the book, about what happens next, anything really), go for it.

Paperbacks

Hi guys! I thought I had already posted about this but I guess I haven’t, and I’ve been getting some questions about it:

Paperbacks.

Samhain used to put all full-length novels out in paperback one year after their e-release. They’re switching to a new model at the moment so things are moving around. To the best of my knowledge, my books will release in trade paperback as follows:

Sweet Disorder – Jan. 13th, 2015. It is already available for pre-order in Samhain’s store—and it’s currently 30% off ($11.20)!

True Pretenses – March 3, 2015.

In for a Penny – June 2015.

A Lily Among Thorns – September 2015.

And don’t forget, the Sweet Disorder e-book is currently on sale for 99¢ at all retailers!

New contest: TRUE PRETENSES e-books, and a gift basket!

ETA: This contest is closed. Mary D. is the winner of the basket. The e-book winers are S2, Anita H., Lozza, Nancy Gilliland, and Taffygrrl. Congratulations, everyone!

True Pretenses comes out in just a few weeks! To celebrate, I’m giving away 5 e-books and a lovely gift basket of items, and this time, the basket is included. Only it’s not a literal basket…

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Yes, the True Pretenses gift basket operates in a long con artist–fiction tradition of briefcases full of cash!

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SWEET DISORDER short story!


To celebrate the imminent release of True Pretenses (about a philanthropist heiress who agrees to a marriage of convenience with a Jewish con artist to get her hands on her dowry), here is the traditional free short story about the characters of my last book, Sweet Disorder.

For bn100, who asked for “Nick is a vampire and Phoebe is a dragon.”

Poor child of Doubt & Death by Rose Lerner

“And there he saw, concealed from Heaven’s rays—
Long banished from Albion’s dreary shore,
Nor suited to her cold and bloodless ways,
Tho’ thrived among us once in lustier days—
Or should I say, in lustier nights—vampiri…”

Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

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TRUE PRETENSES short story: taking suggestions!

So I have a tradition. Every time I release a book, I celebrate by posting a free short story based on a suggestion from a reader about the characters from my previous book. NB: All contain spoilers.

For In for a Penny, I wrote “Four Times Percy Garrett Didn’t Kiss [SPOILER REDACTED], and One Time He Did“.
For A Lily Among Thorns, I wrote “The way of a man with a maid“, about Deborah Hathaway’s first two weeks of marriage to Jonas…which do not go very smoothly.
For Sweet Disorder, I wrote “Poor child of Doubt and Death“, in which Nick is a vampire and Phoebe is a dragon and everything else is pretty much the same.

And now it’s time for me to take reader suggestions for a True Pretenses short story! This one will go up when the next Lively St. Lemeston book comes out. (Maybe next January with Listen to the Moon, but maybe sooner—I’m thinking about publishing a novella this summer…)

I’ll take suggestions of any kind, in any format, as detailed or vague as you like. What ifs, alternate universes, missing scenes, backstory, and future scenes are all fair game. Feel free to treat your comment like a mini-brainstorming session if you want!

You can see past suggestion posts here.

Legal stuff: by submitting a comment on this post, you permit Rose Lerner to develop your story idea without any expectation of financial compensation or remuneration. The resulting story will be available to readers free of charge.

Some suggestions to get the ball rolling:

1. Ash and Lydia are struck by lightning and swap bodies.
2. Ash and Rafe’s first Easter passing as Gentiles.
3. Lively St. Lemeston is a small but bustling space station and Ash is an intergalactic confidence trickster.
4. Jamie’s first Christmas vacation, home from Eton.
5. Mrs. Humphrey and Aunt Packham get locked in a cloakroom together at the Gooding Day Auction.

Comment section is SPOILER-FRIENDLY!