Entries from History is a Bitch - a weblog by Jeanne Kalogridis tagged with 'Catherine de' Medici'
Earth-Pulverizing Announcement
Remember that book called THE BLOODIEST QUEEN? That became THE MEDICI QUEEN when it was pointed out that my UK and Australian readers would guffaw at the "Bloodiest" bit? Well, after much deliberation, I came up with another title with...
I Can't Believe I Wrote the Whole Thing
It's all over but the shouting, folks -- at least until I hear back from my editor, whom I utterly adore. I e-mailed the manuscript to him twenty minutes ago. As of this instant, THE BLOODIEST QUEEN (whose US title...
Fun Facts from THE BLOODIEST QUEEN
Some more interesting facts I learned about Catherine de' Medici while researching THE BLOODIEST QUEEN: Catherine was Mary, Queen of Scots' mother-in-law. In fact, when Mary was five, she left Scotland and went to live at the French court, where...
Dog Days
My current work-in-progress, THE BLOODIEST QUEEN, is based around the key event of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in France. More than 70,000 French Protestants (known as Huguenots) were slain by Catholics in mob violence. It all began on August...
Pop Quiz
A little multiple-choice test for you about Catherine de' Medici, the protagonist of THE BLOODIEST QUEEN (aka THE MEDICI QUEEN), the novel I'm currently writing: Question: Which innovation did Italian-born Catherine de' Medici bring to the sixteenth-century French court?...
Renaissance Astrology
I'm currently writing a book about Catherine de' Medici. Catherine was a brilliant mathematician and avid astrologer; she and Nostradamus, aka Michel de Nostredame, were pretty tight. A self-reliant sort, Catherine learned to cast her own charts -- obliging me...
What I'm Working on Now
A book about Catherine de' Medici, actually. The U.S. title will be THE BLOODIEST QUEEN, and the U.K. title will be THE MEDICI QUEEN. (Understandably, "bloody" plus "queen" just really doesn't go over well in Britain...) The great-granddaughter of Lorenzo...
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