Well, fooey! LJ is now not letting me reply to comments.
My error - the heroine of Les Mis is Cosette. It's been years since I read the book.

Adventures in research. In honor of Bastille Day I looked up the article I remembered from years ago, on baby names during the French Revolution ( Read more... )

As quiet a holiday weekend as I can manage. A couple of small get-togethers, vaccinated friends and family. Planning on coming home early, so as not to be sharing the freeway with tens of thousands of drunks. Fingers crossed that the fellow with the mortar doesn't set up in the street outside my house again ( Read more... )

One of the problems I've had in writing historicals - particularly earlier on, when I was researching from libraries rather than the Internet - is when after the book came out (usually about a year after), a book that would have been REALLY REALLY USEFUL for my research on a particular topic will appear, and cause me to say, Grrr, dammit... In one ( Read more... )

On sale, Saturday, June 26, through Open Road Media - Dragonsbane, $1.99 digital, US and Canada.

Still one of my favorites. The new cover is nice, but I've always had a soft spot for the original Michael Whelan cover, since he used my sketch of Morkeleb as scrap for the dragon.

And yet two more of George's books offered at a downprice ($1.99, digital) from Open Road Media, Thursday (June 17), US and Canada. The short novel "Relatives," and the book of some of his 1970s short work, "Irrational Numbers." This contains (I had to look it up, since, as I said earlier, his books are still in a nice box in the garage) "Lydectes- ( Read more... )

Tuesday, June 16, Open Road will downprice George Effinger's "Bird of Time" - digital, $1.99, US and Canada. Since EVERYTHING is still packed up in the garage, I don't remember whether it's this one, or "Nick of Time," that eventually involves wrapping the Moon in duct-tape in order to crash it into the Earth without it being pulled apart by ( Read more... )

Whoo-hoo! While putting together links for my upcoming new website (Network Solutions gave me a nice paint-by-the-numbers template), I discovered that the first of the Hollywood "Silver Screen" mystery series, Scandal in Babylon, will be available August 1! (Nobody ever tells me anything ( Read more... )

Wow! Facebook's new method of letting me post here is WAY more complicated and difficult than before ( Read more... )

Open Road, bless them, have put some of my very favorites of my books on sale tomorrow, Monday, May 17, US and Canada, digital, $1.99 apiece ( Read more... )