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Mar 01 - Book Review

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Jennifer Ashley on Julia Sugarbaker!

I am wild about Jennifer Ashley. I fell for her ages ago when I read the genius of a book The Madness of Lord Ian MacKenzie, and I’ve been an avid reader and hand-seller of her books (written as both Jennifer Ashley & Allyson James) since then. She writes beautiful books, and I have no idea how she writes so many of them in a year. She’s either the hardest working woman in publishing, or she’s cloned herself. All this is to say that I’m thrilled Jennifer has taken some time out of her insane writing schedule to join us for Girls Who Wear Glasses month in celebration of One Good Earl Deserves a Lover (Yes…yes…I know it’s March today…but it’s sort of Month-ish) to talk about her favorite lady in lenses– Julia Sugarbaker from Designing Women! ** One favorite show of my younger years was Designing Women. I loved those four strong ladies, each...

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Feb 28 - Book Review

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Miranda Neville on Tina Fey

Miranda Neville is so much fun in real life. Seriously. She’s hilariously dry (or is that dryly hilarious?) and always has a crazy story to tell. And on top of it, she’s smart. I like her because funny, smart, and excellent storyteller are the top three characteristics I look for in people around me.  She’s also written about girls who wear glasses — the heroine of her short story, “The School of Wooing for Inept Book Collectors,” in the (FREE!!!) Once Upon a Ballroom anthology wears them to particularly hilarious consequences. So, it should come as no surprise that when I asked her to join me for Girls Who Wear Glasses Month to celebrate the release of One Good Earl Deserves a Lover, she chose to write about another funny, smart, excellent storyteller! Welcome, Miranda! ** I guess I’ve been living under a rock because I never watched Thirty Rock until...

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Feb 27 - Book Review

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Katharine Ashe on Literal Girls Who Wear Glasses

Katharine in her awesome specs I’m thrilled to host the fabulous Katharine Ashe today on the blog. As you know, Katharine and I are co-bloggers over at The Ballroom Blog — Do you read that? You should. It’s Regency fun. — and aside from writing epic Regencies, she is a lady in lenses. Very. Cool. Lenses (see left).  So, when I decided to launch Girls Who Wear Glasses month in honor of Pippa Marbury, the heroine of One Good Earl Deserves a Lover, I knew Katharine was going to have to weigh in on spectacles. I knew she’d have lots to say, and a definite favorite girl who wears glasses.  Boy, do I love this post!  ** I know a little girl of 5 and ¾ years. Let’s call her Rosella. (It’s her favorite name that isn’t her own, though Minnie would do nearly as well.) She is my favorite...

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Feb 26 - Post

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Shana Galen Celebrates Ariel Winter, Girl Who Wears Glasses

Today the beautiful and talented Shana Galen is joining us for Girls Who Wear Glasses Month! Shana’s gearing up for the release of her next book, If You Give a Rake a Ruby, out next week, and she’s taken a little time to hop in the hot seat and tell us about her favorite lady in lenses–Ariel Winter! Welcome, Shana! ** I had to get glasses when I was 13. You would have thought the world was about to end from the way I carried on. I was afraid no boy would ever ask me on a date, and everyone would call me “Four Eyes.” My mom gave me a poster of Marilyn Monroe wearing glasses and that helped. A lot. Maybe if I’d had a role model like Ariel Winter, who plays Alex Dunphy on Modern Family, I wouldn’t have stressed so much. From pictures I’ve seen, Ariel Winter wears...

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Feb 24 - Book Review

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Sara Ramsey on Meryl Streep

I’m so excited to host Sara Ramsey on the blog today — Sara is a full on blast, and we’ve had some great meals and great gossip sessions and great laughs in the few years since we met for the first time! And I am really enjoying her Muses of Mayfair series (and their titles!), which began with Heiress Without a Cause and continues with Scotsmen Prefer Blondes. When I started Girls Who Wear Glasses month, I just knew that she would pick someone awesome for the blog…and I was right! Not only has she chosen one of the most iconic, important, downright idolotry-worthy women of our time…I cackled with glee when I saw the image she attached to her email–what a fabulous choice! Welcome, Sara! ** I freaking love Meryl Streep. She’s not only an amazing talent, but she’s also someone I can picture having a conversation with over a bottle of wine....

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Feb 22 - Book Review

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Maya Rodale on “In Love With A Four-Eyed Girl”

Maya Rodale is cool. We started publishing at Avon around the same time, and quickly discovered that we were both New Yorkers, both interested in the academic side of romance novels, both love our dogs quite desperately. It’s also worth saying that her most recent novella, Seducing the Single Lady,  is inspired by Beyonce…and so…well…that just proves she’s cool.  Since then, Maya (a co-founder of New York’s romance reading series Lady Jane’s Salon) and I have become friends…so of course, when I launched Girls Who Wear Glasses, I invited her to join!  And boy did Maya have thoughts on Ladies in Lenses (despite not being one herself)…She immediately introduced me to a fabulous song about specs, and I asked her to come here today and share it with you!   Welcome Maya! ** Don’t hate me because I have perfect vision. Or because I might have tried on those reading...

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Feb 19 - Book Review

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Kieran Kramer on Girls Who Wear Glasses — Aunt Polly

Today, I’m so excited to continue Girls Who Wear Glasses Month with the fabulous Kieran Kramer — a friend and funny funny lady. I’ve loved Kieran’s books since I heard the title of  her debut, When Harry Met Molly. I mean, who can’t get behind a Nora Ephron (another GWWG!) reference?  I knew Kieran would come up with an awesome lady in lenses…and I was right. Aunt Polly from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is an unexpected and perfect choice! Take it away, KK!  *** Aunt Polly in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is my favorite Girl Who Wears Glasses in literature. I loved her long before I was a mom myself—she’s hilarious, quite frankly. Almost everything she says makes me laugh out loud. I revel in Mark Twain’s genius in creating her—a secondary character who is both comic and noble. She’s noble because she loves Tom to pieces. And...

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Feb 18 - Book Review

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Eloisa James on Linda Howard’s MacKenzie’s Mountain

Great glasses! I’m very very lucky to live in the same city as the fabulous Eloisa James for lots of reasons, not the least of which is this–she’s always willing to have a rousing conversation about romance novels. I don’t use the term rousing loosely. The woman loves romances and has read what seems like all of them…which makes conversations about the genre–I’ll say it again–rousing and awesome. So, of course, when I launched Girls Who Wear Glasses month to celebrate One Good Earl Deserves a Lover, I knew Eloisa (who is, I might add, one of my favorite ladies in lenses) would come up with an amazing lady in lenses…and boy was I right! *** One of my favorite girls-in-glasses romances is in the outrageously non-PC MacKenzie’s Mountain, by Linda Howard (first published back in 1989 and it’s held up!). In the preface, Linda says that she wanted to write “a...

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Feb 17 - Book Review

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Veronica Wolff on Diane Keaton

Veronica in her fab specs. I love Veronica Wolff. We met accidentally, at a dinner with Anne Mallory and Bella Andre (two other favorites of mine), and I knew then, in between the laughs and the stories, that we’d be fast friends. It’s probably because she’s a tall woman with a big smile. I like those things in a person. Since then, I’ve come to love every one of Veronica’s books–which she writes in about a bajillion genres because she’s far more organized and put together than I am–I mean, the woman can write a hunk in a kilt like nobody’s business (I’m looking at you, Cormac MacAlpin) and a big-city-girl-gone-small-town contemporary to make you sigh like mad (see her latest, Timber Creek, for proof).  So, when I discovered that she’s also a girl who wears glasses, I thought, “Of course she is. She’s just that awesome.” I am thrilled...

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Feb 14 - Book Review

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Jennifer Bernard on Harriet the Spy

Let’s be clear. I’m a romance reader first and a romance writer second. And there is nothing I like more than talking about romance novels I love. I think you know about my mail-order Romance of the Month Club from my local indie bookstore, WORD — It’s a super fun book of the month club where every month I choose six of my favorite romances in paranormal, historical and contemporary genres. The books range from brand new releases to classics from the past. Members choose a book from the batch and it’s mailed to them, then followed by a live chat where we talk about the books and why they are awesome. Join us! This month, to honor Girls Who Wear Glasses, I’ve chosen six books with bespectacled heroines…including The Fireman Who Loved Me–the debut contemporary from Jennifer Bernard. I loved the book–it’s fun and sexy and did I mention...

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