The latest updated from Fidelis
The Dastardly Advance of Polite Society
Fidelis is giving a 10 minute talk – called a WOWbite – at the WOW Festival this Sunday. She will be appearing on a panel with Joanna Trollope, Tamsyn Challenger and Elif Shafak. The event is scheduled for 10.30 am in the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Her subject will be The Dastardly Advance of Polite Society.
Fidelis is contributing to a programme fronted by Jude Kelly about the first women in England to make their living as actresses. As she wrote her dissertation on the subject, Fidelis knows some little areas which get passed by in general books about those pioneering women of the 1660s.
Inspired by many members of the audience at my Countess show in the USA and on board QM2, who wanted copies of the script of The Restoration Insult Translator section of the show, I bring to you my patented Restoration Insult Generator. It’s an excellent and easy way to help you find new ways to insult all those irritating gundiguts, trugs and crackfarts who cross your path.
Go to the FUN page and have a go!
To celebrate the re-publication of Unnatural Fire I will be doing a whistle-stop tour of the States
And I won’t be alone – Award-winning British actress, Celia Imrie, best known as one of the naked Calendar Girls (she needed bigger buns), Star Wars, and Brigit Jones’ Diary has agreed to perform some of the varied programme with me.
We promise an event quite unlike any usual author appearance. You will have readings from 17th century plays, extracts from the Countess novels, a Restoration acting lesson, some seventeenth century recipes, a class in 17th century slang, and we will end with a little song, a QA and signing of whatever you care to buy or bring along…
Hope to see you there!
At 2 pm on Saturday 24th July we will be appearing at M is for Mystery at San Mateo
86 E. Third Avenue, San Mateo, CA 94401. Ed Jeannie Kaufman. Phone: 650-401-8077
At 7 pm on Saturday 24th July we will be appearing at San Francisco Mystery Bookstore
4175 24th St., San Francisco, CA 94114. Diane Kudisch. Phone: 415-282-7444
At 2 pm on Tuesday 27th July we will be appearing at Book Em in South Pasadena, LA
1118 Mission St., South Pasadena, CA 91030-3212. Barry Martin Mary Riley. Phone: 626-799-9600
At 7 pm on Thursday 29th July we will be at Centuries and Sleuths in Chicago
7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130-1502. August Paul Aleksy, Jr. Phone: 708-771-7243.
At 7 pm on Wednesday 4th August we will be at Partners in Crime, Greenwich Village, NYC
44 Greenwich Ave., New York, NY 10011. Maggie Topkis Phone: 212-243-0440
To celebrate the publication of Unnatural Fire I will be doing a whistle-stop tour of the States
At 2 pm on Saturday 24th July I will be appearing at M is for Mystery at San Mateo
At 6 pm on Saturday 24th July I will be appearing at San Francisco Mystery Bookstore
At 2 pm on Tuesday 27th July I will be appearing at Book Em in South Pasadena, LA
At 6 pm on Thursday 29th July I will be at Centuries and Sleuths in Chicago
At 7 pm on Wednesday 4th August I will be at Partners in Crime, Greenwich Village, NYC
And I won’t be alone – Award-winning British actress, Celia Imrie, best known as one of the naked Calendar Girls (she needed bigger buns), Star Wars, and Brigit Jones’ Diary has agreed to perform some of the varied programme with me.
We promise an event quite unlike any usual author appearance. You will have readings from 17th century plays, extracts from the Countess novels, a Restoration acting lesson, some seventeenth century recipes, a class in 17th century slang, and we will end with a little song, a QA and signing of whatever you care to buy or bring along…
Hope to see you there!
This month the New York publishers Felony Mayhem are bringing out a new edition of Unnatural Fire. It sports a fantastic cover which depicts the characters of the Countess and Alpiew most amusingly. The Felony Mayhem Press was born of the frustration when too many people ask for a book which is no longer available and I couldn’t be more flattered to have been chosen as one of their titles for 2010