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Alcott Does Austen: Is An Old Fashioned Girl based on Mansfield Park?

A poor girl goes to live in the home of a rich family. In one version, she’s a poor relation, the other, a friend. In both cases, the girl changes the lives of the wealthy family, by virtue of, well, her virtues. She is modest, kind, and caring, and her friendship transform the parents and the son. In the above description of the setup of both An Old-Fashioned Girl (Louisa May Alcott, 1869) and Mansfield Read more…

By Patrice Sarath, ago

Wizard World Comic Con Austin

If it’s not one convention it’s another — I’ll be at Wizard World Comic Con in Austin on Sunday, paneling on the following: Sunday, Nov. 19, 201712:30 PM – 1:15 PM location: Room 4 Start Your Creativity Engines Having trouble revving up your creativity engine? Writer’s block and general creator’s block often succeeds in stalling every type of artist at one time or another, but thankfully, there are creative solutions that can bulldoze those standstill challenges! With Read more…

By Patrice Sarath, ago

Introducing…The Sisters Mederos

I am so happy and excited to announce the debut of my latest novel, The Sisters Mederos, coming out from Angry Robot Books in April of 2018. Regular readers of my blog will recognize the name if not the title. I’ve been writing about the Mederos Sisters for a long time, as Bandit Girls and then Reversal of Fortune. But really the very first introduction of Tesara Mederos was in a short story I wrote Read more…

By Patrice Sarath, ago