Writing Blog: The Mazarinette and the Musketeer

[hrj]

I am delighted to announce the release of my free e-story "The Mazarinette and the Musketeer", being an adventurous romp through late 17th century France in the company of spies, swordswomen, and duchesses.

In the turbulent France of 1678, Hortense Mancini, Duchesse Mazarine takes on the disguise of a King’s Musketeer to pursue her love affair with Anne Lennard, Countess of Sussex. She crosses paths with a true Musketeer, and with Aphra Behn, English playwright and spy, both seeking to retrieve letters between the kings of France and England that could prove ruinous. Every disguise and plan is threatened by the arrival of a young woman who seeks to gain fame by besting a Musketeer in a duel—and now she has a chance to challenge two of them!


Available for download in epub, mobi, and pdf formats.

I hope you enjoy this novelette. If you do, tell all your friends! And whatever you do, don't skip the historical notes at the end of the story.

Comments

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

I look forward to reading it!

[ursula]

I don't see a download link. Is my tablet being weird, or do I need to go to Amazon or something?

[(Anonymous)]

Same question, should there be a link?

[hrj.livejournal.com]

I could have sworn I had the link in there! *grrr* Well, it's there now.

[hrj.livejournal.com]

It's there now.

[lifeofglamour.livejournal.com]

Just grabbed it. Looking forward to reading it! Thank you!

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

Yay, another thing I can read on the iPad on the plane in a couple weeks!

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Wait another week and it will have a quotable comment from a certain column at Tor.com... :P

[hrj.livejournal.com]

Cool! It's all part of a sneaky plot to make people want to read the novels, of course.

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

Must give this a look tonight!

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

But if it's sneaky, why are you admitting to it? :P

[d-salie.livejournal.com]

Next up on my read list!

[katerit.livejournal.com]

I have downloaded it - I look forward to reading it.

all set!

[sloan-5.livejournal.com]

I had trouble with the link at first, but I've got it now. really looking forward to reading this, thank you!

Re: all set!

[hrj.livejournal.com]

I had forgotten to include the link at first!

[hudebnik.livejournal.com]

Will do.

BTW, a couple of days ago we got a concert flyer that mentioned Cardinal Mazarin (in the context of his connection with the architect Bernini). I wouldn't have noticed the name going by if not for your story teaser....

[ichseke.livejournal.com]

I downloaded it yesterday and read it last night -- don't want to be spoiler-y, but what a romp!

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

This was awesome and adorable and amazing and ... other positive adjectives beginning with 'a'.

[hrj.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed it! "Romp" was exactly what I was aiming for.

[hrj.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[abd07.livejournal.com]

I love love love this! It is absolutely delicious!! And I was bowled over to find out how much of it is true. The dueling scene in St. James's Park with both of them in their chemises--srsly? Nice work all around.

[abd07.livejournal.com]

PS: I downloaded it in the .mobi format and read it in my Kindle app. Formatting was perfect! (Harpy?)

[hrj.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked it! The only formatting thing I had to fix after the initial posting was that the "font over-ride" had only worked for the pdf and not the epub and mobi versions. I had to find an entirely different place in the formatting to fix that. "Harpy Publications" is my standard business name for desktop publishing.