The Regency Magic Blog Series - Yours Truly

[hrj]

I was delighted to be invited to participate in the Regency Magic blog series at Strange & Random Happenstance. Coverage of my work kicks off today with a bio and interview. Reviews to follow.

Comments

[kareina.livejournal.com]

Ok, I confess that I really look forward to seeing the blog post about the creation of that dress you mention at the end of the review, once it makes it to the top of your list of things to create.

[hrj.livejournal.com]

The one I have in mind is Antuniet's dress that Jeanne commissions for her--the one described as being ornamented only by a pattern of tucks on the bodice. The one she's wearing for the floodtide party, when it gets destroyed, that she later asks the dressmaker to re-create. I don't know exactly what the construction is, only the effect.

[hrj.livejournal.com]

There's also an awkward problem that the dresses in my imagination tend to be a couple decades earlier than the setting of the story. So I have to be careful to make the descriptions imprecise enough that they aren't "wrong" for the date.

[abd07.livejournal.com]

Really interesting interview (and great publicity!). I really want to see that dress :). (My inner pedant wants to say: Sometimes humans need to check on Spellcheck: I enjoyed the idea of you growing up "in an academic family surly," but you're not, and I doubt that's what the author meant. Same typo appears later on too. )

[hrj.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I smiled at that one.