Author C W Gortner is on a virtual book tour to promote his book The Last Queen which was released on July 29.
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CW Gortner on tour!
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CW Gortner on tour!
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On a related note, here's his interview with EM Vidal on "Tea at Trianon" and her book review:
http://teaattrianon.blogspot.com/2008/0 ... rtner.html
Book review: http://teaattrianon.blogspot.com/2008/0 ... queen.html
http://teaattrianon.blogspot.com/2008/0 ... rtner.html
Book review: http://teaattrianon.blogspot.com/2008/0 ... queen.html
So it's basically the author going around to all the blogs and posting? What a great idea! I checked out CW Gortner's website and am fascinated by The Last Queen now. I intend to buy it as soon as I can get to the book store. I'm due for a nice leisurely browse around a book store with a good cup of cappucino and this presents the perfect excuse! 

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. --Arnold Lobel
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. --Arnold Lobel
Yesterday, C.W. Gortner very kindly gave us an interview for our blog and I must say that, much as I loved his writing before, his answers to our questions really caught my imagination and heart utterly. Loving history, I am always fascinated by stories which bring to light a whole new perspective on someone I have thought little about, but reading more of the background about "The Last Queen", and the drive behind writing it, was one of those 'tingle-factor' moments when something makes you think, "Wow! This writing is brilliant! And this story is fascinating!" When you really feel that the writer's heart is in their work, it's so wonderful - and what C.W. Gortner wrote was wonderful!
Some years ago, I met -at a dinner- an author of a very well known work about Queen Victoria. I hadn't expecially like his book but being a Queen Victoria's family addict, I was so pleased to be sitting by him and thought what a great conversation we could have. Imagine my utter disappointment when he said, "I don't remember who anyone is in the book. The editor from (name of his publisher) said someone sent in an idea for the book so I wrote it. I wish I knew more but I just wrote the names and events down and put them together. Next I am writing a book about...(something he didn't care about either)..." Thud!!!!
What C.W. Gortner - like Sandra Worth, I think, and Hannah Pakula (although she writes non-fiction) and the late
Theo Aronsen (also non-fiction) - does, that is so different, is bring alive their characters because they really 'know' them and the reader feels with them and, just as the author gets into the character of the subject, so, too, can the reader.
Wonderful, wonderful writers!
Some years ago, I met -at a dinner- an author of a very well known work about Queen Victoria. I hadn't expecially like his book but being a Queen Victoria's family addict, I was so pleased to be sitting by him and thought what a great conversation we could have. Imagine my utter disappointment when he said, "I don't remember who anyone is in the book. The editor from (name of his publisher) said someone sent in an idea for the book so I wrote it. I wish I knew more but I just wrote the names and events down and put them together. Next I am writing a book about...(something he didn't care about either)..." Thud!!!!
What C.W. Gortner - like Sandra Worth, I think, and Hannah Pakula (although she writes non-fiction) and the late

Wonderful, wonderful writers!

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When an author stops by different blogs each day and can for example do different guest posts or interviews etc.
My Blog - Reading Adventures
All things Historical Fiction - Historical Tapestry
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
All things Historical Fiction - Historical Tapestry
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton