Full name and title: Countess Charlotta Aurora De Geer
Born: September 19, 1779
Died: May 14, 1834
Jacquette’s mother, sister to Emilie, Gerard, and Jacques. At the age of sixteen, she married her 27-year-old second cousin, Nils Gyldenstolpe (called Philip in the novel). Divorced in 1810. Aurora married her longtime love, Gustaf af Wetterstedt, in 1811.
More charactersThe Yale Golf Course just got a $30 million Gil Hanse restoration.
Now, Yale is charging $350 for the public to play…with poor and patchy turf conditions.
So, what happened?
“For them to drop the ball, that doesn’t surprise me.”
A $30 million disaster: How did Yale let its newly restored golf course fall apart? (Gift Article)
Alums are upset about patchy grass, dried-out greens and want answers. "If someone gave you a Rembrandt, you’d take care of it."
www.nytimes.com
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Read *Butterfly Games* for the scandal and the longing—and the feeling that one wrong move could ruin everything. 🦋
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Me: I’m going to work all afternoon.
Shih Tzu: That’s adorable.
Apparently my role in this household is less “novelist” and more “personal assistant to a very small, very demanding gentleman.”
Shih Tzu moms… if you know, you know. 😂
#ShihTzu #ShihTzuMom #WriterLife
It’s a beautiful morning, book lovers! Come out and see me and my partner in crime, @vicky_alvear_shecter at the @decaturbookfestival! Are you a historical fiction fan?
Read *Butterfly Games* for the scandal and the longing—and the feeling that one wrong move could ruin everything. 🦋
#ButterflyGames #HistoricalFiction #Bookstagram #RoyalCourt
Me: I’m going to work all afternoon.
Shih Tzu: That’s adorable.
Apparently my role in this household is less “novelist” and more “personal assistant to a very small, very demanding gentleman.”
Shih Tzu moms… if you know, you know. 😂
#ShihTzu #ShihTzuMom #WriterLife #AuthorLife #DogMom
Larry and I are out to see #goldentempo run at Saratoga. I looked at a horse named Oscar, but kind of like in my historical novel, Oscar didn’t exactly cover himself in glory. #traversstakes
She goes to the ball, and her worst suspicions are confirmed. Read Butterfly Games. It`s Jacquette`s story, based on a real countess who lived in early 1800s Sweden.
Did you know that Butterfly Games is out in audiobook? And it`s for sale right now on Audible. Get it now and enjoy hearing Jacquette and Oscar`s story narrated by audiobook queen @estherwane. Esther has performed many great historicals, both fiction and nonfiction, including by two of my favorite authors, @TracyBorman and @AlisonWeirBooks. Check it out here. Only $6.10 today if you buy from the Audible phone app.
https://www.audible.com/pd/B0GHSM4QBV?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=pdp
Was the Butterfly Game real?
Yes—and no. 🦋
While researching the Swedish royal court for Butterfly Games, I came across the word fjärilsleken—literally, “the butterfly game.”
It was used in connection with fleeting affairs and lovers who moved frivolously from one object of affection to another.
I knew almost immediately that I had my title.
But the Butterfly Game in the novel became something larger: a game of love, marriage, gossip, information, family connections, ambition, and power.
And Jacquette discovers that useful information can be turned against anyone.
Even her.
I tell the story behind the title in my new Literary Titan interview.
🦋 Read the full Q&A at the link in my bio.
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I did. I wrote Butterfly Games, Book 1.
Historical fiction set in late-Napoleonic Sweden, with royal scandal, forbidden love, dangerous gossip, and real people making seriously bad decisions.
A Swedish countess. A French-born prince. A palace full of enemies.
Read Butterfly Games. Link in bio.
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Butterfly Games, Book 1.
A Swedish countess. A French-born prince. A royal court where no one escapes without a little damage.
For readers who like their historical fiction with scandal, politics, forbidden love, and real people behaving badly in beautiful ballrooms.
Read it now. Link in bio.
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