Today is the 197th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen’s immortal (so far) Pride and Prejudice, which is fittingly the very first book I dove into when writing The Heroine’s Bookshelf. After all, what bibliophile in her right mind can really resist such a spirited, flawed, funny, sexy, and
Read more...I’m done writing the book, but I can’t stop thinking about heroines and their particular pull. I just read a great post by a dear friend about the power of heroines in young adult literature, even for thirtysomething women, and it reminds me once more that heroines matter, both for
Read more...Yes, I’m still revising the book (on a Friday deadline, eek!), but I haven’t forgotten my readers or my heroines. Luckily, the entire Internet and the rest of the world is busy producing interesting content on heroines at all times. To wit: The new Louisa May Alcott movie that recently
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Publishing a book is a saga, though I’d never presume to think it’s as exciting as the lives of the women writers I’m writing about (how very meta). I just received a very incisive and encouraging revision letter from my editor at HarperCollins and as I go through the manuscript,
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There are many explanations for my seeming neglect of this blog, but for the time being I will merely point to the deadline looming up before me like the most ferocious of Louisa May Alcott’s vortices. I’ll be back in late November…until then, hear Louy’s words about what I’ve been
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