Back in July of 2006, I reviewed Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander, which at the time was published by the author, Ann Herendeen, through AuthorHouse. Now, three years later, HarperCollins is publishing Phyllida , on sale today at bookstores every-freaking-where. How is this cool? Well, not only did it go from self-pub to HarperCollins, but Phyllida is a gay Regency, with a m/m/f setup.
The book is garnering a good amount of attention – which is awesome – and both romance sites and bloggers are reviewing and celebrating it. How freaking cool! Congrats to Herendeen, and to Phyllida, who is a very ballsy heroine, though not in the way her husband would prefer.
I remember your review! I had Borders order this book after reading your review and loved it!
So glad it is getting the exposure it deserves.
Cool! I was just thinking of this book the other day and thought of purchasing. Easy availability moves it up my TBR!
I reviewed the original edition last May here:
http://oracne.livejournal.com/901764.html
Long way home!
Having read your review, and about Ms. Herendeen’s struggle to get her novel written, printed, and sold, I echo your congrats to the good-bi girl. She writes so well, and her response to your criticism of her book was awesome. (She called your review “terrific†after you gave her a C). I’m looking forward to reading Phyllida.
Oooh how exciting and wonderful for the author. Definitely buying this one soon.
I am always on the look out for romance novels that push the envelope. So it is nice to stumble across this. I am definitely going to buy it.
That’s great news. I’ll have to go pick it up.
Note: RH is using the same painting for cover art that Source Books is using for their QPB re-printing of Georgette Heyer’s False Colours.
See here: http://www.sourcebooks.com/cart/shopexd.asp?id=1511
That last sentence made me aspirate my tea.
The NYC library system (serves Manhattan, The Bronx and Staten Island) has a copy on order as well.
And it’s so unattractive. Sometimes, I really wonder who makes these decisions.
feeling29 I wish… once upon a time 🙂
I will definitely pick up a copy as I love self-pubbed or subsidy-pubbed success stories. When one of these catches NY’s attention it makes me cheer. And besides, what’s not to love about a gay Regency romance?
…and I reviewed it here:
http://ttthomasopinionhead.blogspot.com
OK, OK, so I loved it! I also like the History Behind the Story at the back of the book in the new Harper Collins…very cool. I wrote this lady a fan letter, and she’s as neat as her book. Good for good writers like her! tt
That is awesome! Congrats to Ann Herendeen. So great to see a non-traditional romance picked up and re-distributed like this 🙂 I’ll be looking out for it definitely!
I’m adding this to my vacation reading list. Do you know if the it’s been edited substantially (and maybe fixed some of those problems)?
Just ordered this for my Kindle. Talk about instant need gratification.
Looking forward to reading the story. Yay!
Wow—gives us self-published folks some hope!