Category: blog tour

Today I’m at Angieville talking Regency hipsters and giving away two copies of Gambled Away!

When I looked for recognizable elements of hipsterism in the Regency, I started to spot them here and there. A certain angry “counter-cultural” world-weariness, love of irony, and cynical fascination with excess seems to pop up with regularity in history—from the Restoration rakes, to the French decadent poets who liked to épater la bourgeoisie (shock the middle class) by writing poems about anarchy and sex workers or walking turtles on leashes at the mall (yes this was a thing), to the Bright Young Things of the 1920s and 30s.

Is it a coincidence that those examples all follow on the heels of traumatizing periods of economic depression, social upheaval, or war? Probably not.

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I’m at Jaunty Quills today giving away books and talking about my rather intense fear of change, decluttering, and how Jeannie Lin made me cry in her novella with this story about a paper lantern:

When I was a child, I’d received a lantern once for the Spring Festival. It was pink and painted with flowers. I’d loved that lantern for an hour. A breeze had caught it while it hung from a tree in our courtyard, tipping the candle inside over and igniting the paper.

I’d wept after the servants put the fire out as I stared at the ruined shell. I would never have that bit of happiness, the glow of that moment in the same way ever again.

I wanted the moment with Gao back with the same empty sorrow now.

Stop on by and enter to win a book!

And follow along with the rest of the blog tour here. There’ve been some great posts (including one by Isabel about how writing is like combining snow cone flavors)!

I’m at Jaunty Quills today for the last stop of my blog tour, talking about scarcity, generosity, and food stockpiling among other things. With bonus old photos of my mom’s family!

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Today I’m at the Romance Dish talking about my favorite makeover scenes from Dorothy Sayers to Brooklyn Nine-Nine! (And giving away an e-book.)

And to give credit where credit’s due and also offer you more delightful romance, here are links to the posts those GIFs are pulled from:

Iron Man

Arrow

12 Monkeys

Brooklyn Nine-Nine makeover

The dancing one I found on some GIF compilation site and their link to the original post was broken. :(((( If you know of a GIF set of that moment I’d love to see it!

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Today I’m at Ever After Romance talking about some of my favorite strong, silent types from Courtney Milan to Star Trek; Toogood; and the struggle to find words when talking about one’s feelings.

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Today I’m at Harlequin Junkie sharing some fun facts about Listen to the Moon and an exclusive excerpt in which John and Sukey go to a servants’ ball, and giving away a book!

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Today I’m at Heroes and Heartbreakers talking about Anna/Bates, the good, the bad, and the adorable.

At one point I mention that Anna should have a detective show. Then I got excited and made this graphic:

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Today I’m at Angieville talking about how my starchy valet hero Toogood was inspired by Wolverine. No, he really was.

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I’m at Smexy Books talking about ten of my favorite fictional servants, from The Secret Garden to Iron Man! (And giving away an e-book.)

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Happy new year!

Today I’m at All About Romance talking about what a truly crappy job being a servant in the Regency was. (And giving away an e-book!)

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