http://lucypick.com Reading and Writing History and Fiction (and sometimes food) Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:20:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In Publisher's Marketplace: Dutch rights to Alison Pick's THURSDAY'S CHILD, to Orlando, at auction, by Margaret Halton at Rogers, Coleridge & White, on behalf of Anne McDermid at Anne McDermid & Associates. Congratulations, Alison! http://lucypick.com/2010/01/08/spotted-this-morning/ I'm pointing you outside my blog today, to a post I wrote for the web journal Sightings, published by the Martin Marty Center. As many of you know, I wrote my dissertation and first book on anti-Jewish religious polemic in the Middle Ages, and the way it was used ... http://lucypick.com/2009/10/29/me-and-the-pope/ As promised, here's a photo of my treasures from the annual Hyde Park used booksale. Missing from the photo are a couple of gifts, but otherwise, they're all here, 50 books for around $30. Taking a look at my piles, I can see why I have a hard ... http://lucypick.com/2009/10/17/hyde-park-booksale/ I am breaking my long blog silence (permanently --- there will be many more posts in the next few days and weeks) for a very good cause, to celebrate the release today of Sheramy Bundrick's debut novel, Sunflowers, published by Avon, about the story of Vincent van Gogh. ... http://lucypick.com/2009/10/13/sheramy-bundrick-sunflowers/ I felt like the last part of my childhood died today. I know a lot of people have said that by now, but that's because sometimes a cliche is true. To my son, Michael Jackson is nothing more than a set up line in a joke about pedophilia, but like ... http://lucypick.com/2009/06/26/michael-and-farrah/ I have to laugh at the status-consciousness of some (very few) of the people in my field sometimes. For the four or five of us who haven't figured this out yet, fifteen minutes away from the Medieval Academy Meeting, to paraphrase Pierre Trudeau, you could be the most published, ... http://lucypick.com/2009/06/19/its-who-knows-you/ I spent last weekend in Schaumburg at the Historical Novel Society conference meeting old friends and new, and thinking hard about what it takes to write a compelling historical novel. I was going to write a full post about the conference but all my procrastination has meant that Julianne ... http://lucypick.com/2009/06/18/historical-novel-society-conference/ I was tagged in this reading meme over on Facebook ages ago, and I never answered. I'll post my answers over there too, but my blog seemed like a better place for it. 1. What author do you own the most books by? Well, I own all the Dorothy Dunnetts, including ... http://lucypick.com/2009/04/03/literary-maven-meme/ (No, I'm not going to talk about The Hug) When I saw this photo on the newspapers this morning, it reminded me of when I was a little girl. Whenever the table manners of my sister and I left anything to be desired (which was often), my ... http://lucypick.com/2009/04/02/manners-and-the-queen/ Spotted today in Publisher's Marketplace: Alison Pick's THURSDAY'S CHILD, a story about love, hope and betrayal within an affluent Jewish family in Prague during the lead-up to Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia, to Lynn Henry of House of Anansi, in a pre-empt, by Anne McDermid Associates. That's my cousin! Check out her ... http://lucypick.com/2009/03/12/alisons-new-book/