Dear Author: Romance Book Reviews, Author Interviews, and Commentary

Dear Ms. Delors,

First, I must compliment you on your mastery of the English language. It wasn’t until I was over halfway through the book that I went to your website and read your bio. Are there plans to translate the book into French? Second, I must say brava for managing to convey what was going on without the book turning into a history lecture - and this is five years of madly shifting politics and complete social upheaval. You are also able to show the changes from not only the viewpoint of the aristocracy - those for whom things are getting worse - but also of the peasants and bourgeoisie - those for whom things were looking up.

There are really two stories here: first about Gabrielle’s life and second about late 18th Century France just before and during the Revolution. It’s bittersweet story of love found, lost and found again. I don’t think it has so much a happy ending as a realistic one. The times were uncertain and it seems that most of the major Revolutionary figures ultimately came to brutal ends. While reading it, I tried …

Catherine Delors has a unique story that the readers haven’t heard before. Delors’ first language is French but her first published novel is in English. How hard must that be? Delors graduated from the University of Paris-Sorbonne School of Law, became a member of the Bar of Paris at 21, got married, moved to the US, passed the California Bar (which is super hard) and set up a solo practice after the birth of her son.
I’m pretty much in awe of that resume but even beyond being a bi-lingual lawyer, wife and mother, Delors wrote and sold her first novel, a historical “epic journey into the heart of the Revolution, from the glittering halls of Versailles to the brutal slice of the Guillotine.”
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While I was working on Mistress of the Revolution, things were not going well in my personal life. The joy of writing kept me going at a time of intense unhappiness.

And then one day my novel was completed. I had a moment of panic. A sort of postpartum blues, …