Jencey's Writer's Corner

Thank you to St. Martin’s Press for giving me a copy of the Lost Season of Love and Snow by Jennifer Laam.   I was given this copy in exchange for an honest review. How many of you have read Jennifer Laam before or are familiar with Russian history?   This is my first time reading one of Jennifer’s books.   I found Russian history fascinating.   When one can take a look back and understand what the Russian society was like back in the early nineteenth century.   She tells the story of Lady Pushkina the great wife of the famous Poet Alexander Pushkin.    What is her story? Synopsis:   Natalya is the youngest sister of Ekatrinia and Azya, and they attend a ball in Moscow.   At this ball, Natalya attracts the attention of Sir Alexander Pushkin the Poet Laureate of Russia.     She is equally attracted to Alexander, and hopes that her mother will say yes to the union.   Natalya’s mother was concerned by the financial a...

Welcome to 2018 on Writer’s Corner!  Today Jennifer Laam is stopping by to share her new novel The Lost Season of Love and Snow.    I have an excerpt from this novel below provided by St. Martin’s Press.  Jennifer is a popular author in historical fiction, and writes about Russian history. Excerpt: A man says he will die for you. A woman is taught to lower her gaze and blush before hiding once more behind a silken fan. Men are given to self-aggrandizement, while women flatter egos and keep men tied to this earth. Such is the way of the world, or so I was taught in the days before I gained a reputation as the villain of St. Petersburg. I know better now. When a man declares he will die for you, sometimes a woman must take him at his word. For to allow one’s husband to perish on the field of honor is a shameful affair, worse even, than murdering him by your own hand. The solemn men who gather at our flat fall silent as my husband draws his final br...