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Alive and Thinking in Cyberspace: Pam's take on just about everything
“I think we’ve found our family,” Jasper says to Marina at the end of The Edge of Impropriety. It makes me particularly happy to think that I wrote these words back in 2008, before my son Jesse ever met his now-wife Masha and now-daughter Sasha, and before they were joined by new baby daughter Rory just [...]
And also of some of the origins of my own fiction. Because my relatively recent fascination with the ancient world (indulged to the fullest in my just-posted History Hoyden’s discussion of Stacy Schiff’s magnificent Cleopatra biography) is the product of the loving research I did in order to understand the Regency classical scholar Jasper Hedges, [...]
Of Impropriety, I mean. Which is to say that my 2009-RITA-winning novel of eros, esthetics, and empire will be on the bookstore shelves in its svelte new mass-market edition this May 3rd and available for preorder now (click here for links for online ordering — and here to read an excerpt). And hey, if you [...]
I’m delighted to announce that those of you waiting for the mass-market edition of my RITA-winning THE EDGE OF IMPROPRIETY can have real date in your sites. May 2011 — or as Amazon has it, May 3, 2011, and available for pre-order now. Check out my in-the-works page for more information, and do let me [...]
Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul? That’s from somewhere in John Keats’ letters, as quoted by biographer Walter Jackson Bate. And as I copied it out from Bate this morning, it occurred to me that certainly that’s one of [...]
I had to leave off this argument to go post at the Hoydens about Sex and the Historical Sensibility. But I promised to come back and finish it off with “subtleties, shades, differences.” To ask — of a genre that guarantees its readers a happy-ever-after ending every time — whether it’s possible to mix things [...]
Actually, I am today — blogging away at History Hoydens about the research I’m doing, about the clothing Regency fashion prescribed for sailing and what people most likely actually wore. And (most important for a writer) how to describe all that. With nods (of course) to Jane Austen, Shelley and his circle, and fashionistas everywhere. [...]
To the winners of my just-completed contest. Lisa from Granite Falls, NC and Rachael from Cairo, MO will each receive an autographed copy of Janet Mullany’s hot and hilarious Regency read, A Most Lamentable Comedy (and everybody else should check out the excerpts I’ve posted, here and here, of passages that made me giggle, snort, [...]
..in trying to describe how it felt last night when The Edge of Impropriety won the RITA® for Best Historical Romance at the Romance Writers of America’s Annual Awards Ceremony, the culminating event of our National Conference. So I just keep saying yes — yes, thanks — yes, it’s amazing, overwhelming, awesome, thrilling. No hold-the-presses [...]
Not a woman without a man (as the old second-wave feminist quip had it) but a romance writer without a bookmark to give away… No, wait a minute, it’s the opposite. A romance writer never leaves home without a bookmark to give away. A romance writer without a bookmark is like a fish without… fins, [...]
