I am made up to have got a review in such an august publication 🙂 And even more so one that concludes:
“A multi-ethnic, diversely gendered cast of characters inhabits this homey universe… Finn’s belief that “if the heart
is going to err… It’s surely always best to err on the side of love” underlies an entertaining, emotionally satisfying mix of intrigue, mourning, adventure, comedy, and romance.”
So I think they liked it 🙂
Not much progress was made yesterday, as both my children were visiting. So no post yesterday. I still managed to sew the silk outer layer together, though. I’d never sewn silk before and wasn’t prepared for it to be so inclined to fray. My goodness! I double sewed it, but I think I’m going to…
I found out about Katie Babs/KB, who is doing something about the recent rash of teen suicides due to bullying and cyberbullying. She’s made a post about them and has pledged that for every comment she gets, up to five hundred, she’ll donate a dollar to an organization dedicated to helping kids. 500 comments =…
I know Amazon ratings don’t mean a lot, but it did give me a thrill this morning to find False Colors in the top 100 of Historical books on Amazon. Actually making a slight impact outside the ‘gay fiction’ lists. LOL! Just for the moment, False Colors by me is above its namesake, False Colours…
confirms what I already thought – which is that I love this book. Seriously, I am so excited about this one. This is probably bad news because it’s been my experience so far that the stories I’ve loved the most haven’t necessarily been the ones other people liked, but there’s not much I can do…
Spent today taking my youngest to the dentist. This is pretty much the story of the holidays – non stop ferrying one or the other of them about. Though I can’t be hard on her for needing to go to the dentist, poor child! In writerly news, I have just passed the 100,000 word mark…
Huzzah, and other, more period-appropriate, exclamations. The first draft of The Pilgrims’ Tale is complete at 87,890 words. It opens with a scene a little bit like this: only without the anachronisms and arrows, and carries on being less about war and more about music and gender-role confusion than is usual with me. It’s probably…
That’s wonderful! Congratulations.
Thank you! Yes, it’s nice to see it there in the middle of m/f romances, being treated as exactly the same thing. That’s definite progress 🙂
Fabulous!! However, I’m not reading their reviews yet because…. I just finished an ARC of this for the blog site I review for and don’t want to be influenced. Absolutely LOVE the book! 😀 Need to sort my thoughts so I can attempt to write them down in sensible form. Kudos, Alex and thanks for another gem . :-* Can’t wait to return to Trowchester in the next story.
OOh, thanks Dianne! I’m so glad to know that you enjoyed it 🙂 I really enjoyed having my own city to play with, and it may be only a very stylized version of contemporary life, but then so is Midsommer in the Midsommer murders books and it hasn’t held them back 🙂 I’m really eager to learn what you thought of it, but I’ll wait for your review and not bug you to tell me here. Thank you!