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: Susanna Kearsley
April 26, 2011 | Tuesday | 10 Comments
Tune in tonight at 9pm Eastern Time, when we’ll be discussing Susanna Kearsley’s The Winter Sea - or, if you’re Canadian, Sophia’s Secret. I will have to remember to ask which title people liked better. Either way, come on back at 9pm EST when the window below will be hopping with polls, mayhem, giveaways, and some really awesome book discussion. Seriously, I cannot tell you how much I love the book chats. I love hearing what you think of the books. Thank you to AllRomance for being the book club sponsor of excellentness. See you tonight! Bring cocktails! The Winter…
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April 04, 2011 | Monday | 121 Comments
It’s not so much sizzling in northern coastal Scotland in the winter, but this book is amazing for it’s warmth, the strength of the writing, and the story-within-a-story. As I announced in the Book Club Chat last week, our April Book Club pick is Susanna Kearsley’s The Winter Sea. Previously published in Canada as ‘Sophia’s Secret,’ and a nominee for both a RITA and a RNA award, this book is emotional, historically fascinating, rich and worth savoring. Here’s the description: In the spring of 1708, an invading Jacobite fleet of French and Scottish soldiers nearly succeeded in landing the exiled…
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February 25, 2009 | Wednesday | 9 Comments
Ach, it is a truth universally acknowledged that haggis, and any mention thereof, is almost as funny as the word “yurt.” And, it is also a truth universally acknowledged that you are the funniest people on the damn planet.
Behold, the 10 winners of a copy of Susanna Kearsley’s The Winter Sea:
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February 23, 2009 | Monday | 85 Comments
It’s Sophia’s Secret, it’s The Winter Sea and it can be a touch hard to find in stores in the US. But I’ve got ten copies of the soon-to-be-released mass-market edition of The Winter Sea courtesy of Susanna Kearsley and her marvelous publisher to give away to Bitchery readers. Since the response to my linkage to her interview in The Toronto Star was so effusive among her fans, I figure there’s at least 10 readers here who would like to give her book a try. So, if you’d like a copy, leave a comment. To make it fun, since the…
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February 22, 2009 | Sunday | 16 Comments
Man, this is getting to be soothing and enjoyable, all these intelligent articles about romance: The Toronto Star did a profile piece on author Susanna Kearsley following her nomination for the Romantic Novel of the Year for The Winter Sea, or, as it was titled in the UK, Sophia’s Secret. Kearsley does a very mellow and effective job of explaining the misconceptions of romance: “When you say that you write romantic fiction, there are a lot of people who have an image in their mind of the `bodice ripper,’” she says. “It’s the one term that most romantic fiction writers…
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