Rose Lerner's Blog, page 41

By the way, today is the last official day to submit ideas for my In for a Penny short story I'll be posting to the website in September! You can send me your ideas via the contest page on the website, here. I'll probably leave the form up a couple extra days, but [...:]

In honor of Memorial Day, a heartbreaking World War One poem. It's by Archibald MacLeish, whose "Not Marble Nor the Gilded Monuments" I posted during poetry month. He wrote it for his brother.
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Memorial Rain
For Kenneth MacLeish, 1894-1918
Ambassador Puser the ambassador
Reminds himself in French, felicitous tongue,
What these (young men no longer) lie here for
In [...:]

I'm working on a post about Luddites, the British tradition of collective bargaining by riot, and John Henry, but in the meantime:
My friend and fellow Dorchester author Marie-Claude Bourque has a book out this week! So do Emily Bryan, Christie Craig, and Cindy Holby! So Marie-Claude is doing a fabulous giveaway at her [...:]

WOOOOOOO! I have turned in the manuscript of A Lily Among Thorns! Of course this is just the first pass and I'll be getting a revision letter someday soon, but right now I am still riding the high. Those two weeks of working double shifts were kind of crazy and having free [...:]

Hey all! Revisions are BENDING TO MY WILL! MWAHAHAHAHA!
Okay um. I think all the oxygen from my brain is gone because of too much revisions (I just typed "brain from my oxygen") so I will be brief! Actually brief, not like Friar Lawrence or Polonius when they say that (Shakespeare REALLY [...:]

1. Still deep in revision-land. I took a brief vacation yesterday for a "Robin of Sherwood" (the 80s BBC series) marathon with my friend Gwen. I loved it! Believe me, you will be hearing lots more about that once revisions are over. If you like tightly plotted drama, this show [...:]

As I mentioned in my last post, I am currently in the middle of revisions for A Lily Among Thorns. And revisions means fact-checking and research! Here are some hilarious tidbits I've come across over the last few days:
1. "The piety of Hannah More was 'practical piety,' and to her must be [...:]

So I don't have time for a post with actual content because:
1. My deadline for A Lily Among Thorns is coming up in a few weeks and I am revising every spare minute that I have. The only reason I was able to snatch this time to post is that I'm printing out [...:]

Eloisa James has read my book!!!
Okay I know I am supposed to be a professional and not act like a fan and blah blah blah but ELOISA JAMES HAS READ MY BOOK. AND SHE LIKED IT. And she posted about it here for her Barnes & Noble blog/column! I read it this [...:]

I meant to post a lovely optimistic love poem for the last day of April, and then I read this on yesterday's April Is and I couldn't resist. Inside jokes are one of my favorite things, and one of the most tragic things to me when a relationship of any kind ends for whatever reason: "No one will ever get this joke again." [...:]