{"id":2110,"date":"2010-01-28T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T05:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2010-01-28T00:00:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T05:00:03","slug":"laura-kinsales-gives-us-lessons-in-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/28\/laura-kinsales-gives-us-lessons-in-french\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Kinsales gives us Lessons in French"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Her return has been long awaited and her book much anticipated. Yes, I&#8217;m referring to the super-talented, <em>New York Times<\/em> bestselling author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurakinsale.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\"><strong><em>Laura Kinsale<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a>. And she&#8217;s giving us <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Lessons in French<\/strong><\/span>. <em>Parlez-vous fran\u00e7ais<\/em>, anyone? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">~*~*~<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Question<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nLaura, tell us about <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Lessons In French<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nDo you love those stories where the shy, plain girl gets the hot dashing guy in the end?\u00a0 Lady Callie ought to be quite a catch&#8211;she&#8217;s the wealthy daughter of an earl&#8211;but she&#8217;s been left standing at the altar by three different men.\u00a0 She&#8217;s washed her hands of gentlemen, and her greatest desire is to win the silver cup at the agricultural fair with her prize bull, Hubert.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s until Trev d&#8217;Augustin waltzes back into her quiet life.\u00a0 The son of French \u00e9migr\u00e9s, he was run out of town by Callie&#8217;s father years ago for stealing a bit more than a kiss from her.\u00a0 Callie and Trev share quite a past, in fact, full of secret adventures and harebrained antics that no one else knows about, not even Trev&#8217;s very shrewd mother.\u00a0 On his return, Callie is drawn willy-nilly into scandal and deception&#8211;the sort of deception that involves trying to hide a huge bull under the bedsheets.\u00a0 She goes from having no suitors to having more than she wanted.\u00a0 And in the midst of these escapades, she finds herself falling in love again with the worst possible man for her.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Question<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nIf you could compare <strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Lessons In French<\/span><\/strong> to your other books, how would you say it\u2019s different?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve always had touches of humor in my books, but I&#8217;m better known for writing dark, intense book.\u00a0 I wanted to write an entire book in a light vein.\u00a0 Readers can expect that this book will be just as emotionally wrenching as any I&#8217;ve written&#8211;but in a jollier sort of way!<\/p>\n<p>I think this is the perfect time to publish a feel-good story.\u00a0 All I want for readers with<em> <\/em><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Lessons in French<\/span><\/strong> is to sit back, read it and smile.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Question<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nAfter your time off from publication how is the entrance back in?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nI&#8217;m been enjoying re-connecting with my readers.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve often chatted with readers on the internet, so the social sites like <strong>Twitter<\/strong> are familiar ground to me.\u00a0 Also, I&#8217;ve opened a completely re-designed website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurakinsale.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.laurakinsale.com<\/a> where readers can talk about my books and ask me questions.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Question<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWhich do you think is more important in romance writing, voice or story?<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Answer<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nFor me as a reader, both of them are important.\u00a0 If it was just a plot, then a synopsis would suffice.\u00a0 But even the most evocative writing doesn&#8217;t go anywhere without a good story.\u00a0 I find that the two things, the words and the story, build and play off of one another.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Question<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWho is your favourite author?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nI have a number of favorites, so many that I have a special page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurakinsale.com\/love\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.laurakinsale.com\/love<\/a> on my website to list them.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Question<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nAre you a plotter or a pantser?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nDefinitely a pantser.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Question<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nYour covers from Sourcebooks are stunning. Did you have any say so in them?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nI asked <strong>Sourcebooks<\/strong> to create elegant and colorful covers.\u00a0 I think they came up with some of the prettiest colors I&#8217;ve seen.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Question<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWhat is next for you, and when will readers expect to see it out on book shelves?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nI&#8217;m working on several different ideas, but I don&#8217;t want to jinx anything by describing them too soon!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">~*~*~<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2114\" title=\"Lessons in French Cover\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Lessons-in-French-Cover.jpg?resize=210%2C347\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"347\" \/><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Lessons In French<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><br \/>\nAuthor: Laura Kinsale<br \/>\nPublisher: Sourcebooks<br \/>\nPub. Date: January 26, 2010<br \/>\nISBN-13: 978-1402237010<br \/>\n480 pages<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Laura Kinsale&#8217;s unique and powerfully written love stories transcend the romance genre. In this, her first new book in five years, she delivers a poignant, funny, sexy, Regency romance sure to delight her many fans and attract a whole new readership.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Trevelyan and Callie are childhood sweethearts with a taste for adventure, until the fateful day her father discovers them embracing in the carriage house and, in a furious frenzy, drives Trevelyan away in disgrace. Nine long, lonely years later, Trevelyan returns. Callie discovers that he can still make her blood race and fill her life with excitement, but he can&#8217;t give her the one thing she wants more than anything\u2014himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">For Trevelyan, Callie is a spark of light in a world of darkness and deceit. Before he can bear to say his last goodbyes, he&#8217;s determined to sweep her into one last, fateful adventure, just for the two of them.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurakinsale.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Laura Kinsale<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, a former geologist, is the <em>New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Flowers from the Storm<\/span>, <span style=\"color: #808000;\">The Prince of Midnight<\/span><\/strong>, and <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Seize the Fire<\/strong><\/span>. She and her husband divide their time between Santa  Fe and Dallas. For more information, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurakinsale.com\/\">www.laurakinsale.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I want to thank Laura so much for taking the time to talk with us today and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcebooks.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sourcebooks<\/strong><\/a> for generously offering 8 copies of <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Lessons in French<\/strong><\/span> today. Details to enter to win are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smittenbybooks.com\/theseason_featuregiveaway_jan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>. 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