Monday, May 25, 2009

Ask an Author Week #7: Bess McBride

Question: If you could meet any author in the world (dead or alive) who would it be and why?

Bess McBride: Georgette Heyer...just to meet her and ask her about how she created the Regency world of fiction. 

College teacher Ellie Standish thinks she’s on a sleek modern train heading to a conference on women’s studies in Seattle, but she awakens from a night’s doze to find herself on a bizarre historical train full of late Victorian era reenactors who refuse to come out of character. When the leader of the group—one handsome, green-eyed Robert Chamberlain—finally convinces her the date is indeed 1901, a skeptical Ellie decries any eccentric theories of time travel and presumes she is smack dab in the middle of a very interesting historical dream. She turns the directorial reins of her dream over to one smitten and willing Robert, only to realize that dreams cannot last forever. Someday, she must wake up to reality, though Ellie no longer has any idea what reality is. She only knows that Robert must play an important part in her future. But how can he...if he’s only a figment of her imagination or worse yet...a man who belongs to an era long past?  

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2 Comments:

  • At 5:30 PM, Blogger She said…

    She'd probably be my choice also. I just recently found out his also wrote mysteries. I'm going to have to try one of them.

     
  • At 3:56 PM, Blogger Michele said…

    An interesting choice! Anyone who created a whole genre would be interesting to talk to--like the originators of the SF field, Heinlein, Asimov, etc.

     

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