{"id":3575,"date":"2013-06-05T17:29:57","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T07:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/?p=3575"},"modified":"2016-12-18T17:18:51","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T06:18:51","slug":"montmaravian-miscellanea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/montmaravian-miscellanea\/","title":{"rendered":"Montmaravian Miscellanea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kate Forsyth<\/a> very kindly invited me to write a guest post for her blog, so I wrote one about books similar to the Montmaray Journals<\/a>. Even though I’ve mentioned many of those books before, that post is worth visiting for the fabulous book cover images Kate has found, especially that vintage edition of The Pursuit of Love<\/em>, with its titillating tagline (“Now Linda’s respectable uncles were sure it was true . . . THEIR NIECE WAS A KEPT WOMAN!”).<\/p>\n

There’s also an interview<\/a> with me on Kate’s blog, plus she’s written a lovely review<\/a> of the Montmaray books. As Kate explains, she was one of the first people to read the manuscript of A Brief History of Montmaray<\/em>. This wasn’t because I knew her, but because my editor at Random House had worked with her and thought Kate might enjoy the story. Kate’s comments about the manuscript made me jump up and down with glee (KATE FORSYTH had read my book! And liked it!) and a quote from her subsequently appeared on the front cover of the first edition of the book:<\/p>\n

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Thank you, Kate.<\/p>\n

By the way, that cover for A Brief History of Montmaray<\/em> is one of my favourite Montmaray covers, partly because of the beautiful shades of blue and the tall purple grass, and partly because it’s the only one that shows all three Montmaravian princesses. (What do you mean, you can’t see Henry? There she is, standing on the castle wall!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kate Forsyth very kindly invited me to write a guest post for her blog, so I wrote one about books similar to the Montmaray Journals. Even though I’ve mentioned many of those books before, that post is worth visiting for the fabulous book cover images Kate has found, especially that vintage edition of The Pursuit … Continue reading Montmaravian Miscellanea<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,18,15,8],"tags":[141],"class_list":["post-3575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1930s","category-books","category-my-favourite-books","category-the-montmaray-journals","category-this-writing-life","tag-kate-forsyth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3575"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5039,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions\/5039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}