Dec 13 2009
We will be posting our Top 10 of 2009 this entire week. Today’s list is from Janet (aka Robin). The list is unranked. You can find more of her reviews here. **** I hesitated about making a list this year, since my reading was largely dictated by what I volunteered to review. Consequently, there are(…)
Sep 14 2009
Welcome to the My First Sale series. Each Monday, Dear Author posts the first sale letter of bestselling authors, debut authors, and authors in between. Claudia Dain writes romance stories about the woman getting everything she wants. Her latest book, To Dazzle a Duke, is in stores now with her mass market reprint The Courtesan’s(…)
Feb 14 2009
Dear Ms. Dain: Jane has been trying to get me to read the Courtesan Chronicles for the longest time, but for whatever reason, I just didn’t get around to it. Until now, that is, with The Courtesan’s Wager, the third book in the series. Even though I skipped to this book and knew there were(…)
Feb 11 2009
Author Claudia Dain joins us to talk about The Courtesan Chronicles and the role of empowered women in historical romance.Dain also discusses the challenge of creating a powerful female character – who is not your 11pm bootycall. Jane and I also ruminate on the rarity of the empowered, clever heroine who actively pursues what she(…)
Feb 5 2009
Got your credit card ready? Okay, then let’s go shopping. This month, we’ve got some hardcover and trade paperback books that we are recommending but given that we had slim recommendations in past months, we hope you won’t mind. If money’s tight, try the library or the used bookstore. Courtesan’s Wager by Claudia Dain. I’m(…)
Feb 3 2009
more animals Two February releases present the interesting struggle of women and power in historical romances. A woman during the Regency romance period had virtually no rights, particularly a married woman. A married woman ceased to even have a legally cognizable existence. Her husband was immediately conferred the property of woman whether she had any(…)
May 7 2008
Dear Ms. Dain: Women in the Regency period had but few choices in life. A society woman had only one: be married. I see these books as showing how women in society flirted and schemed to achieve the best result possible which was marriage to a well favored man that they actually liked. In the(…)
Oct 12 2007
What can I say as an intro for Claudia Dain other than she inspired Ned and me to create the lego videos*. Her first book in three years, The Courtesan’s Daughter, is out this month in trade paperback. It’s a smart book from a smart author and I am thrilled that Dain is back in(…)
Oct 4 2007
Dear Ms. Dain: Ned and I read your book a while back and decided to create some lego stop motion animation videos to reinterpret our thoughts. I know, we took some heavy license with the story so here’s our proper review. Lady Caroline Trevelyan is the daughter of the late Earl of Dalby; the sister(…)
Apr 27 2006
Dear Ms. Dain: I am not sure where you are today in your writing career, but in 2003, you wrote one of my favorite westerns ever published. It is an oft overlooked gem and I am glad to have this forum to bring it to a few people’s attention. I want to give thanks to(…)
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