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Post by devogirl on Nov 12, 2019 21:18:16 GMT -5
My latest novel is finally published!
London, 1735. Covent Garden offers a world of pleasures and diversions, even for a blind man. Tom Finch approaches life with boundless good cheer and resilience, whether he’s pursuing a musical career or pursuing women. And as for his blindness, to him it’s merely an inconvenience. Join Tom for a picaresque romp through high and low Georgian society among rakes, rovers, thieving whores and demireps, highway robbers, bigamists, and duelists, bisexual opera divas, castrati, mollies, and cross-dressers, lecherous aristocrats, and prim ladies. It's meticulously researched historical fiction that is also funny and devvy.
If you like it, please leave a review on Amazon or Goodreads or anywhere else. It really helps a lot! Also friend or follow me on Goodreads. The first chapter will be posted on the stories blog this Friday but you can read the first four chapters in the Amazon preview. |
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Post by blueskye101 on Nov 12, 2019 22:55:51 GMT -5
Congrats 🍾🎈🎉. Can’t wait
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Post by happyface2013 on Nov 13, 2019 12:59:33 GMT -5
As one of the beta readers, I loved this book. She is a brilliant writer and you should read it too.
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Post by Braced4Impact on Nov 13, 2019 15:34:00 GMT -5
Awesome work, DG! Nice cover art as well!
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Post by queenkala on Nov 13, 2019 15:39:55 GMT -5
Downloaded it now! Cannot wait to stop reading it!!
Thank you so much for this wonderful treat!
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Post by blueskye101 on Nov 13, 2019 19:05:28 GMT -5
Am through the sample and starting into the rest now. Damn, I have to go to work though. Loving it. So interesting and well written. Aaaand, able to put so many devy details in there and not make it look obvious. Yea!
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Post by devogirl on Nov 13, 2019 20:15:45 GMT -5
Thanks so much everyone! I'm so happy people are enjoying the book. Thanks happyface2013 see you don't have to be a dev to enjoy it  |
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Post by linda on Nov 14, 2019 8:25:30 GMT -5
Beautiful! Congratulations, devogirl! And yes, the cover really looks great as well! Reminds me a bit of this very famous portrait of Mozart as it is on the sweets called „Mozartkugeln“, only he would need a white wig and be portrayed straight from the side... |
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Post by devogirl on Nov 14, 2019 20:48:59 GMT -5
Thanks linda! Tori made the cover for me. I'm so happy with how it turned out. We have those chocolates in the US too, I know what you mean. Mozart is by far my favorite composer but he was one funny looking dude. I think guy in the painting I used is more handsome, haha. |
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Post by linda on Nov 15, 2019 6:49:20 GMT -5
Oh devogirl , it is so interesting how our feelings about music are so similar, yet so different. I used to love Mozart when I was a child, but growing older I started to dislike the light and playful character that his music often displays. I prefer Bach. Or Schubert or many others. The Classical Period is not my favorite in general. „Funny looking dude“? 😂 I always loved the tenderness of Mozart’s famous portray and find him a very attractive man (I used to be seriously in love with him as a child, had even named my budgies after him, Amadeus and Constanze. Paying my respect also to Bach, my rabbit‘s name was Sebastian, Sebastiane after she had babies. But I realize pet names are a bit too off-topic here...) Even though I am aware that Mozart‘s portrays most probably are nothing but a painted euphemism of his actual appearance, I never let this knowledge spoil his dear image in my girlish mind, until today. At least that is as long as I can shut out the disturbing characterization of Miloš Forman as this utterly disgraceful, boundlessly dirty-minded, hysterically giggling impertinent idiot from my mind ... We will be singing the Requiem next year. Even though I am not the biggest fan of Mozart anymore, this is the one piece I‘ve always been wanting to sing more than anything else. I can’t wait. |
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Post by devogirl on Nov 17, 2019 7:10:13 GMT -5
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Post by devogirl on Dec 20, 2019 21:19:30 GMT -5
I just published a guest post on a historical fiction blog to promote my new book. The post is all about disability in the 18th century and the real life models I used as I was writing. The post is in the form of an interview, with questions provided by PD stories blog author Rowan (author of Shadowboxing and The Nerve Interpreter). Thanks very much Rowan! Chapter 2 and chapter 3 are also up on the stories site as a sample. |
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Post by devogirl on Jan 15, 2020 7:51:22 GMT -5
I have two more guest blog posts up to promote my new novel, and to provide some background on the real history I used as inspiration. I included a lot of information about the real people who make cameo appearances in the novel. Read here about homosexuality in the 18th century: and here about 18th century opera: Thanks everyone for reading!
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Post by rebeca on Jan 16, 2020 5:25:53 GMT -5
Big congrats devogirl. I'll buy a copy and my dev expectation are sooo high. I'm a blindness girl and you do it so well. |
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Post by devogirl on Jan 16, 2020 7:09:46 GMT -5
Thanks very much rebeca! I hope you like it. |
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