Ok…so I SWEAR I won’t do this often…but when you wake up on a miserable, snowy, grey Monday when the last thing you want to do is drag yourself to work…and an email from the lovely and talented Saundra Mitchell is in your inbox containing the long-awaited Publishers Weekly review of The Season…AND it has the greatest compliment you could ever ask for in it…you can’t help but squee.
And immediately post it to your blog.
So…forgive me for the momentary bragging, but…Oh. Em. Gee.
“Clever conversation in the spirit of Jane Austen makes this quite a page turner.”
Oh. Em. Gee.
That’s about my book. And it references Aunt Jane. Are you KIDDING me, PW?!?!
Ahem. By which I mean to say, of course, “Thank you. Very much.”
Ok…I was raised never to have a great day without paying it forward…so here we go with our first Happy Author giveaway! In comments, tell me the one thing you love about historical fiction…Regency or otherwise, and I’ll enter you in a drawing to win a The Season Wordle Journal! Contest is open through Friday!
Tell your friends!
xoxo
March 2nd, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Congrats!!!
March 2nd, 2009 at 4:39 pm
That’s awesome congrats! :)
I think it’s the language for me. It’s more romantic then current.
March 2nd, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Historical fiction combines my love for history by letting me immerse myself in another time and place. It’s an alternative to an actual time machine, without the danger of warping the time-space continuum :)
And congrats on such a great review :)
March 2nd, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Congratulations, indeed.
What do I love about historical fiction? So many things, but the feeling of being somewhere else, where things are slower-paced and life isn’t as stressful (hey, it’s fiction!), has got to be one good reason.
March 2nd, 2009 at 7:28 pm
For me I think it’s the manners. People acted polite and courteous, and yet there are undercurrents of meaning. I like it.
Congratualtions on the great review!
March 2nd, 2009 at 8:48 pm
i like that it transcends me into a different time thanks for the giveaway
March 2nd, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Congratulations! I so agree, your books is absolutely amazing!
I love regeneracy fiction. So many different reasons! I love the way they talk, the proper way they live, the way that they aren’t slobby. I just love it!
Thank you for the wonderful contest!
March 2nd, 2009 at 10:14 pm
Congratulations!
I like knowing that people really used to live like that and things that happen in historical fiction books probably really did happen somewhere sometime.
March 2nd, 2009 at 10:40 pm
Love to have this. I really enjoy reading about other times. The knowledge I learn has been amazing.
Thanks,
darkfyre1(at)gmail(dot)com
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:23 am
Historical fiction allows history to really come alive, to seem real. It really gets you to think rather than just seeing it as a bunch of dates and names.
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March 3rd, 2009 at 12:47 am
It takes me to a place I’ll never get to experience.
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March 3rd, 2009 at 1:22 am
Congrats! :)
Historical fiction is one of my favorite genres … you learn amazing facts. Historical fiction also makes me thankful for electrity. Many died from cold winter days, now we have heaters and everything.
Cool contest! Please enter me.
+BookBegger
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March 3rd, 2009 at 1:29 am
Congrats!
I love historical fiction because it lets me pretend like I’m the characters and imagine what it would be to live in their life/time period. And then regency is always good. Especially when we have books like the wonderful Jane Austen’s that were written and set in the time. Then we know that the books have more historical accuracy than some other books.
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March 3rd, 2009 at 1:49 am
Congrats on the amazing review, i really can’t wait to read your book!
I love that with historical fiction you can learn a lot about the time periods, clothes, customs, food while still being immersed in a great story. it is fabulous!
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:12 am
I like to learn about different time periods and its just relaxing to sit back with a historic. Somehow the language of the times is soothing.
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Congrats! That’s awesome! I whole-heartedly agree with every word from PW!
March 4th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
Congratulations, that’s so awesome!
I think I really like the way they talk in historical ficiton. There’s just something so elegant and eloquent about the diction choice and phrasing, so proper and beautiful. And of course, the descriptions of the clothes and rooms/interior decoration is wonderful.
April 11th, 2010 at 11:45 pm
I like that it was less complicated (no fear of AIDS, HIV) and of course, the happy ending!
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