Around Europe, various towns have their own special regional festival. One of the best known is that of the town of Binché, where much of the action of Glamour in Glass takes place. In fact, it’s one of the reasons that I picked Binché as a scenic location. They have a multiple day festival on […]
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Want to read Chapter 2 of Glamour in Glass? You don’t have to wait until it releases next week. RT Reviews has the entire chapter on their website. Mary Robinette Kowal blew us away with her 2010 debut, Shades of Milk and Honey, a Regency-set fantasy that won our August 2010 Seal of Excellence Award. Ever since, we’ve been waiting
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During the Month of Letters Challenge, people could write to Jane from Shades of Milk and Honey and she would write back, using an actual quill on a 19th century writing desk. Jane was writing these in “real time” for her, which means that it was the corresponding date in 1815 and takes place during
Ooo! There’s a lovely review of Glamour in Glass in the current issue of Portland Monthly. FEMALE EMPOWERMENT is a difficult enough subject to tackle in the context of Regency England, but add in the Napoleonic Wars and a level of magical realism, and you have the setting for an epic Jane Austen could hardly
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In the Regency, curls were the fashion. It started as an effort to mimic the hair on statues from Greece and then transformed into its own thing. By 1815, when Glamour in Glass takes place, the hair styles had become fairly elaborate. If you had straight hair, like Jane, there were a number of things
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I have just turned in Without a Summer, book three in The Glamourist Histories. It is a full three days early. La! Seriously, this thrills me, what with the move and everything, to have this completed and turned in. Please join me in saying, “Whew.” It’s just a brief respite before I
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We are two weeks away from release day for Glamour in Glass, so today I have a fairly large excerpt for you. Also, because I know how much you like clothes. The pretty, pretty clothes. This dress is from the 1813 La Belle Assemblee “Frock of plain jacconet muslin, with a demi train; body of
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As part of our Moving Book Tour, I’m very pleased to announce that the Broadway Book Mall has invited us to stop on our way through Denver. If you can make it, this will be an event, instead of just a drive-by signing. At 7:30pm on Thursday, April 26, Rob and I will be at
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In the world of strange coincidences, I bought a writing slope that reminded me of the one that Vincent uses in Glamour in Glass. The leather writing surface needed to be replaced so I stripped it off, exposing the wood underneath. Carved in the wood are the initials V. H. Those are Vincent’s initials…
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One of the things I had fun with in Glamour in Glass was sending Jane out of England. See, Shades of Milk and Honey took place in 1814, which is when Napoleon was defeated and went into exile on Elba. In 1815, people flocked to the Continent which was safe for the first time in years. Jane
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One of the things I enjoyed during the Month of Letters Challenge was sending letters from Jane. One of them has arrived and the recipient posted a photo online. As you can see, I sometimes had a good deal of fun as in this case where Jane included a costume sketch. That is written with an
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Yay! Look at the nice things that RT Review says about Glamour in Glass. GLAMOUR IN GLASS by Mary Robinette Kowal Genre: Fantasy, General Fantasy RT Rating This is a wonderful book. Kowal has taken such care grounding her story in the time and place in which it’s set that the addition of magic is truly seamless. Jane
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One of the things I have most enjoyed about the Month of Letters Challenge is the mail that my character Jane gets. It has been not only fun, but actively helpful to write letters in her voice. One of my readers just posted about receiving the response to her letter. Check out this awesome thing
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I have been a little nervous, waiting for the official reviews to start coming in. Library Journal has this in their current issue. May I just say, whew. Kowal, Mary Robinette. Glamour in Glass. Tor. Apr. 2012. c.336p. ISBN 9780765325570. $24.99. FANTASY At the start of 1815, newly married and eager to explore her gifts
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