Fun Friday & Giveaway Winners! – Day #5
Prisoners in the Palace: How Princess Victoria became Queen with the Help of Her Maid, a Reporter, and a Scoundrel by Michaela MacColl Reading level: Young Adult Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Chronicle Books Released: October 13, 2010 I love doing the last post in the week as it’s always full of fun times & I get to announce the winners! I’ve included a few pictures of people or places you will find throughout the book Prisoners in the Palace by Michaela MacColl. Princess Victoria by Henry Collen 1836 London’s Great Fire Monument (I can’t imagine jumping from this!) Kensington Palace (though I got the impression it wasn’t as nice looking as this back in 1836) Windsor Castle (which I desperately want to visit one day!) (drum roll please)…..AND THE WINNERS ARE……Carrie (book)Vicky (bookmark)Spav (bookmark)Taylor (bookmark)Carol(bookmark)Myra (bookmark) Check your email guys, and … Read entire article »
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Meet Liza from Prisoners in the Palace – Day #4
In Michaela MacColl’s debut, Prisoners in the Palace, Liza’s luxurious life came to a halt when her parents were killed in a carriage accident, leaving her an orphan. Now homeless and with debts to pay, she acquires a job as a maid to Pricess Victoria – but with a catch, she must also act as a spy! I hope you enjoy this interview with Liza! Your luxurious lifestyle and expecting to join society must have made becoming a maid hard to swallow. What was the toughest part? The sleeping arrangements were definitely my most difficult obstacle! I was used to feather beds and sheets of silk. My bed at Kensington Palace was lumpy and I was always cold. You never realize how much you take for granted just being warm! I wrapped … Read entire article »
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An Interview with Michaela MacColl – Day #3
I hope you are enjoying learning more about Prisoners in the Palace! Today on the blog is an interview with the author, Michaela MacColl. If you haven’t already, don’t forget to click on the giveaway link at the end of this post. You have a background in history. Was being an author something you always dreamed of?I fell into history accidentally through literature. I was reading a fabulous edition of Russian fairy tales when I needed to declare a major. I ended up designing an independent program that looked at the end of the Russian Empire and the beginning of the Soviet one from many different disciplines. To the extent that I thought about the future, I saw myself as a professor. However, two years of graduate school killed that dream! … Read entire article »
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Fact vs. Fiction – Day #2 Prisoners in the Palace
I’m excited to have Michaela on the blog today talking about the fact vs. fiction and how her debut, Prisoners in the Palace came to be. Please give a warm welcome to Michaela When I began writing Prisoners in the Palace, I started with biographies. Victoria is one of the most heavily biographed women in the world (!!!) so there are a lot to choose from. But my task is easier because I concentrate on her childhood, usually only a chapter or two in most biographies. Within those chapters, I looked for nuggets to start me thinking… and that’s where the story comes from. The nuggets in this case were the restrictions on her childhood and the dreaded Kensington System which was what her education regimen was called. Since … Read entire article »
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