Teen Friendly Fiction

Finishing School Series Tofa Borregaard under the pen name Gail Carriger writes Regency romance, steampunk, and paranormal fiction.  (See the discussion of her The Parasol Protectorate series in the Romance Novels post.)  In the Finishing School series she adds a school setting and teenagers to the mix.  This new series which starts in 1851 England…

Food in Fiction

Contemporary Lady of Magick by Sylvia Izzo Hunter Set in an alternate Regency England, Chapter 6 opens on the dessert course of a fancy dinner party.  “Joanna prodded irritably at the spun-sugar cage of glazed profiteroles on her plate.  What was the use of a dish which one could not eat without first attacking it…