Hey beloved
readers! As many of you are aware, my posts have been a little weak-sauce
lately (except for the new segment last week, which was awesome because I
didn't write it!). That's because I've been putting all my writing juices
into a blog tour for my debut Victorian-Gothic novel
A White Room.
A White Room.
Well the tour is
ending this week so no more weak-sauce (and below you’ll see some efforts I’m
making to ensure that) but for this post I'm going to give you the sum-up of
the blog tour and point you in the direction of the non-weak-sauce posts I’ve
been writing and that I think you as my readers may enjoy because a lot of it involves
history, gothic Victorian, and other fun stuff.
But first a couple
of announcements:
1.
I would like to direct your attention to the way too
large Rafflecopter widget on the right side of this blog. Why is that there?
Well I am having a giveaway. A big freaking giveaway!!!
Prizes include two $25
Amazon Gift Cards, a signed copy of
A White Room, and a 24 hour free share ebook (you get the code to download the free ebook and can give that code to anyone you want online including Facebook and Twitter for a period of 24 hours.)
A White Room, and a 24 hour free share ebook (you get the code to download the free ebook and can give that code to anyone you want online including Facebook and Twitter for a period of 24 hours.)
So how do you enter – it’s super
easy. Go to either my author
Facebook page or my Twitter
page and like/follow me! Bam you are qualified to enter. Then enter using
the way too large widget. This also counts if you already do follow me. Super
easy right?
The giveaway will not end until I reach 200 Facebook
Followers (I currently have 100) and 450 Twitter followers (I currently have
350) so in order for you to get the opportunity to win, I need your help by
sharing this giveaway to your friends!!!
2. If you’ve already forgotten because of that super exciting
giveaway I’m doing announcements right now. ;-) Have you noticed the blog’s new
look? Yay! I’ve been feeling really bad about neglecting you guys lately, so I’ve
decided to renovate around here. Not only do we have a new look and a new
mascot The Raven (yes inspired by Poe – I don’t care if it’s cliché it’s really
relevant to this site), but we are also going to have some new content round
here.
If you were here last week you
got to see “Christopher’s Ectoplastic Travels Through Time,” which is the new
segment on every fourth Wednesday written by Christopher Thisse an expert in
Victorian and turn of the century magical history. Nice!
Other segments that are in the
works, but I’m not promising anything (although if you hit me up in the
comments with some likes I’ll be far more inclined to pursue one segment over
another.)
Ok other segments I’m working on
include: Decrypting the Classics, which will involve me explaining a gothic
Victorian classic because sometimes those things are hard to read and understand.
Another segment and this one
really depends on you guys and your wants – I’m a writer. I can totally hook
you guys up with a writing/publishing segment, but I got to say that’s only
happening if you directly ask for it because I can’t write that segment and
make it relevant to the topic of this blog.
And I’m also talking to some
other potential guest posters about a Victorian Freak Show Segment and Creepy
Civil War History. So let me know what you guys think!
Ok so back to
the blog tour. Below are the links directly to my blog tour stops organized
into categories to help you find what you most want to check out. Also if you
see anything you like and would like me to write more on that type of stuff –
shout out in the comments! Just so you know the very last stop on my blog tour
is Saturday August 3rd on History and
Women: Guest Post: Victorian Women and the Mystery of Sex
Unhinged Posts (Historical or Dark)
Lost to Books (Halloween
2012 flashback) Evolution
of Horror Fiction and Trick of the Trade.
(To be posted Aug
3) History and Women: Guest
Post: Guest Post: Victorian Women and the Mystery of Sex
The Following Posts are Still Historical
and Dark but More on Writing
Reviews & Interviews
Oh,
For the Hook of a Book: Interview (Includes some interesting
Gothic literature questions)
Oh,
For the Hook of a Book: Book Review
Hazel
the Witch: Interview
The
Bookish Dame: Interview
Bookfari: Interview
Satisfaction
for Insatiable Readers: Review and Interview.
Taste
Testing Tuesdays – a teaser excerpt from A White Room
Michelle’s
Romantic Tangle: Interview
Ravings
and Ramblings: Review and Interview
About Stephanie CarrollStephanie Carroll is the author of A White Room and "Forget Me Not" featured in Legacy: An Anthology. She blogs about magical realism, her research into the Victorian Era and Gilded Age, writing, and life in general at www.stephaniecarroll.net and at The Unhinged Historian. She also founded Unhinged and Empowered, a blog for Navy wives and girlfriends.
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I'm sorry, I have to disagree with you on "most mental illnesses are symptoms of dissatisfaction in something". Most mental illnesses are actually physical illnesses of the brain. My son has schizophrenia and I don't think he got it from being dissatisfied.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to reading this book though!
Thank you for commenting Anonymous and pointing out this miss-step in the way I worded something in my post The Hysterical Victorian: My Theory on Why Hysteria Exploded in the 19th Century (http://unhingedhistorian.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-insane-victorians-hysteria-was-real.html).
ReplyDeleteI used the word "most" when I was thinking "many."
It was not my intention to suggest that there are no or less mental illnesses caused by chemical or other issues that do not involve an environmental or psychological factor. In fact the only reason I pointed out that mental illness can be caused by dissatisfaction in something is because it's not the only cause and I was trying to be clear that I wasn’t referring to the chemical causes.
Still my using the word “most,” was not clear, so I changed that wording and put a special note to make sure that point is clear.
Thank you again for pointing that out. I wouldn’t have realized it otherwise. Also, I wish you all the best with your son. I too have members in my family who suffer from mental illnesses, which are in response to chemical issues and not environmental ones, so I sympathize with and understand the importance in being clear on this point.
Sincerely,
Stephanie Carroll