It turns out that the students won’t be the only ones being finished around here.
The schedule includes classes on not just dancing and deportment, but also deception, poisonmaking and knifethrowing. Its staff includes a vampire and werewolf. To begin with, Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality is an airship, suspended under giant balloons above the foggy moors. It’s the school itself that defies expectation. Here’s a guide on what to do when you’re highjacked by flywaymen.Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is bold, adventurous and, in her mother’s own words, a “cracking great bother.” It’s not really much of a surprise that she finds herself sent to finishing school. And there is an educator’s guide for this series for free as well.You can download a free schematic map of the school.Here is the book trailer that they made for me….Here’s the tumblr Little Brown made for the Finishing School. (Incidentally, this is the reason I got on Tumblr.).Blog posts specific to Etiquette & Espionage.Word Matters Postcast: The Language of Spy and Detective Stories.Victorians, Werewolves, and Spies, Oh, My!.Guest Presentation For the Intellectual Salon ~ Espionage in the Aether.Bonnets At Dawn Podcast episode on Upstarts, Social Climbers, and Alicia LeFanu’s Fashionable Connections with Dr.5 Questions of Victorian Conversation & Etiquette Including THE CUT DIRECT.The Etiquette of Proper Introductions in Victorian Times.Sophronia’s Moors in Etiquette & Espionage.
How Does the Peerage Work in the Parasolverse?.In Which Miss Gai Visits a Shooting Range in the Interest of Research.Flirtation or… Espionage? Miss Gail’s Research on Victorian Spies.Things Pertaining to This Book Research & Other Fun Behind the Scenes Tidbits
Here I talk about why I made the switch to YA, how I changed my writing style and approach, and other thoughts from the writer perspective. I have a number of others in my proverbial trunk, unpublished. This is the first book I wrote intentionally for a Young Adult market. Original advert Writing Etiquette & Espionage
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