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Clare Gilmore's avatar

this newsletter both romanced and intellectualized my Saturday 🧚‍♀️

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ellen o’clover's avatar

an honor!!

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Erin Cotter's avatar

Despised and Rejected sounds incredible! I can't wait to read it.

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ellen o’clover's avatar

i think it would be right up your alley, erin!

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Emily Charlotte's avatar

omg I went to Bath 100% for Persephone—lifelong dream! Coolest place!!

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ellen o’clover's avatar

I knew nothing about it and SO glad I stumbled across it!

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McKenna Lynn's avatar

since you loved the bookstore's mission so much, ellen, i HAVE to share this incredible little two-lady-team printing house that i just discovered. they're called MANDYLION PRESS and they publish"overlooked novels by nineteenth-century women and weirdos." it sounds like persephone's books and manylion press have very similar missions!! i am soooooo intrigued by the 1918 title you picked up!! <3 also way too hype about this giveaway. i don't think i've ever entered one so quickly before. tomorrow is my 30th birthday, so i'm definitely going to consider it a bday present from you if i win. just saying. happy thursday!!

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ellen o’clover's avatar

okay, SOLD. just followed them! thanks for sharing, mckenna, and happy birthday! 30s are so good. ❤️

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Laura Roettiger's avatar

Your writing always fills me with so many thoughts, I’m not sure where to begin. I will say that readers are in for such a treat in September when The Heartbreak Hotel comes out and I think carrying around the ARC was a brilliant idea.

The bookstore you visited looks like something you may have invented it as a setting for a future book but it appears to be real! 😊

The books you mentioned sound interesting. I remember hearing about Fear of Flying when I was in college almost ten years after its release but I don’t think I ever read it. Cocktails? 😉

Literary fiction vs ‘chick lit’ sounds like a topic I’d like to read more about.

Thanks for sharing!

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ellen o’clover's avatar

thanks for reading laura ❤️

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