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These Boots Are Made for Walking: Boots Throughout History
ThreadTalk gets the boot.
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The Crowning Affair: All About Crowns
The scandalous and beautiful history of crowns, tiaras, and diadems.
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Bonnet’s Banyan Bounty: Our Flag Means Death and Those Robes
1 – Ahoy! #threadtalk is sea bound–or at least a cozy room below–exploring the phenomenon of OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH & its revival of mens night-gowns, or banyans.🫖 This pinnacle of masculinity has a rich, wide, global history, full of intrigue. Away to Bonnet's banyans! #ofmd 2 – There is some disagreement about when exactly the banyan became a Western gentleman's fashion staple. We know influences from Japan & India coalesced in the late 17thC. Between colonization & an obsession with "chinoiserie", by 1730, it was a fad. Matthew Prior (below) 1718. 3 – The word banyan (or banjan, or banian) has an interesting etymology, coming to English (it is…
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Marie Antoinette and Her Squad
1 – ⚜️🎀It's time for #ThreadTalk & today we're going big with the infamous Marie Antoinette: the oft-misquoted, scandalous, fashion forward last Queen of France (before the Revolution). Her image is iconic, but she did not do it alone. To her dying day, she had a *squad*.🎀⚜️ 2 – Born in 1755, Marie was not French; she was Austrian. Daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, Hapsburgs bigwig. Known then as Maria Antonia, she even met young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart during her charmed childhood. Here she is in 1762, bedecked in satin, ribbons, and flowers. 3 – At 14, she was married by proxy to the Dauphin of France, in an effort…
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Color, Form, and Fashion: Glimpsing History in BRIDGERTON Season 2
Visit a Regency period that never was, and explore the styles and designs of this imagined time.
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Audiobook Giveaway for Shelley Puhak’s THE DARK QUEENS
A giveaway for an audiobook of Shelley Puhak's THE DARK QUEENS.
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Catch me on the Worldbuilding for Mascochists Podcast!
Podcast goodness with Worldbuilding for Masochists.
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#ThreadTalk Tackles Amazon’s Wheel of Time Series
My patrons voted, and March's #ThreadTalk went to Two Rivers and Beyond, with a look at Season One of the Wheel of Time series.
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My Patreon is Live!
My Patreon is live!
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Read My Six Elementals Author Interview With P.L. Stuart
Into The Reaches of My Brain I had the pleasure of being interviewed by P.L. Stuart, and it’s now live on their page! If I recall correctly, P.L. and I first connected on Twitter just around the time that Queen of None came out. He bought the book and really connected with the story, and has been a wonderful champion of my work since then. I’m beyond flattered, really. You never know who’s going to resonate with your work, or where that connection will happen. The interview is quite comprehensive, and runs the gamut from talk of Arthuriana, to discussing falling in love with books, to future projects on the…
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Announcing the 10th Anniversary Edition of PILGRIM OF THE SKY
My debut novel is getting a shiny new makeover in advance of the second in the Godlings books.
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Hear me Talk What’s Next, Reflections on the “New Normal” and More on the The Outer Dark Podcast
I had such a blast speaking with Anya Martin for The Outer Dark’s Quarantine Readings. We had a chance to talk all things writing, and reflections on what I did during quarantine, how I was able to cope with that (and some discussion about my ADHD diagnosis). I also absolutely love that Anya provided so many delightful show notes, too! And be sure to check out Davids Bowles’ fantastic interview and reading. Also, bonus, I read Gawain’s first chapter in Queen of Fury – (0:52:12).
