Sourcebooks casablanca georgette heyer biography
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Remember a while back when I wrote a blog post complaining about Sourcebooks Casablanca&#;s terrible rebrand of Georgette Heyer&#;s novels?
Well, I snarked, and now I&#;m going to praise. I&#;m working on my All of Heyer entry on These Old Shades (no, really) and I came across this cover image.
This is exactly the kind of thing I was talking about! They wanted a fresh new look to appeal to younger readers, and this time they&#;ve done a smashing job. A fan, pistols, cards, a quizzing glass, a carriage&#;presumably His Grace of Avon&#;s light traveling coach on the way to Versailles, pulled by his high-couraged horses&#;all the things one thinks of in connection with this delightful story. It looks like fun! Who wouldn&#;t want to read it?
So it seems that Sourcebooks took the criticism about their proposed new books&#;and believe me, I was not the only one complaining, the Georgette Heyer Facebook group was acquiring pitchforks and torches&#;and went back to the drawing board, and came up with a really wonderful new look, also rebranding them as &#;The Georgette Heyer Signature Collection.&#; Well done, Sourcebooks! Your ebooks still cost too much, though. (They do occasionally put them on sale, if you&#;re in the market&#;sign up for eReaderIQ and set your preferen
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Welcome, Deb Werksman and thank you for joining us today to chat about romance, mystery, and historical fiction novelist Georgette Heyer during our month-long celebration of her work here at Austenprose. As an acquiring editor of Sourcebooks Casablanca, you have become Heyer’s strongest advocate by re-issuing her novels originally published between Why did you choose Heyer and was it a challenge to bring her to a new market?
Our publisher brought Heyer to my attention shortly after we started our romance line and we saw that her books were out of print in the US. She&#;s such an amazing writer, and so many readers, booksellers, and librarians were raving about her work and lamenting the difficulty of getting her books, that we decided we would publish her entire body of work if we could. We went to her agent in the UK and have been publishing the books as they become available for the US market. She&#;s so well-known here already that it wasn&#;t really a new market. The biggest challenge has been that there are too many books to bring out all at once, so it&#;s taking several years to get them all into print.
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