What’s it about?  Heroines. When’s it coming out?  Some time in October 2010.

Um, yeah.  Not a good enough answer.  In the absence of a formal blurb, here’s the announcement that appeared in Publishers Lunch upon sale:

Erin Blakemore’s THE HEROINE’S BOOKSHELF, an inspiring look at literature’s greatest and most enduring female characters — such as Jo March, Jane Eyre, Elizabeth Bennet, Laura Ingalls and others — and their authors, who have helped shape the inner lives of generations of women, teasing out universal tenets of strength and survival, and gleaning the wisdom and solace they offer to help women navigate these challenging times and find their inner heroine, to Jeanette Perez at Harper, in a nice deal, by Larry Weissman at Larry Weissman Literary (World).