Thursday, June 6, 2019

TYL Summer Series Kick Off


This summer I am excited to participate in a pre-book release P-A-R-T-Y with some great bloggers! We'll explore the tidbits of history explored in my August release, The Yellow Lantern, and have GIVEAWAYS for those who participate! Be sure to join my FB event so you'll be up-to-date on when posts go live so you can comment and enter the giveaways. Here is the JUNE GIVEAWAY ( includes Cotton-scented fizzers, a mini-journal, drawer sachet and Starbucks gift card...to enter...READ ON):

I'd like to kick off the summer series with a brief overview of how all these tidbits of history became a suspenseful tale set in 1824!
The themes for the summer series

Barbour’s True Colors Crime concept intrigued me from the very beginning. Being the daughter of a doctor and discovering the ties of grave robbing to the early medical profession, I was excited to dive deep
into 19th century Massachusetts. Graverobbing around Boston and New York was often employed by doctors desperate for medical advancementMen and women were both involved in the procuring of bodies for doctors. Finding these accounts led me to take took a look at the current medical remedies of the time—tinctures, elixirs, and herbal concoctions. My heroine was created in the tension of a desire to heal and the desperation of medical pursuits.

Amidst these medical ties to the historical moment of 1824, something was also shifting among women in rural areas of New England. Many women were employed by newly built cotton mills (Lowell Mill was my inspiration for the fictional Gloughton Mill in The Yellow Lantern). These working opportunities for women offered an escape from their home-bound lives and the rare chance for independence. Of course, with such industrial environments, injuries, and sometimes death, would occur. Noting the accounts of these kind of fatalities in historical articles, my research came full circle

I found three strong threads to weave into my grave-robbing story—doctors in need of research, a doctor’s assistant needing an escape from her village, and a millnot only offering that escape, but the chance at bodies for the desperate medical community.
My heroine, Josie Clay, found life in the tangle of these threads of mills, medicine, and grave robbing—all playing out within the pages of The Yellow Lantern.

For the rest of the month, we'll focus on Mill Life! Each month will have a special theme associated with Josie Clay's story! Stay tuned!

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17 comments:

  1. The ties between medicine, grave robbing and the mills sound interesting! Excited to learn more! :)

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    1. It's such a colorful time of history. Thanks for commenting!

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  2. I am looking forward to reading this by. I am part of the CelebrateLit tour. This story sounds fascinating

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    1. Oh yay!! So glad you are on the tour. Thanks for stopping by!

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  3. I’m super excited to to participate in the summer blog tour for this book as we prepare to launch this book baby into the world!!

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    1. Yay! So glad that you are participating in it, you've been such a great team member!!

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  4. This sounds like a great book!

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  5. I read The White City and I'm currently reading The Pink Bonnet so I definitely want to read The Yellow Lantern. Looking forward to all of the excitement leading up to its birthday in August!

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    1. So glad you have read along in the True Colors Crime Series. I hope you enjoy The Pink Bonnet!

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  6. I remember you telling me about this story a couple of years ago already and hoping I'd get a chance to read it. I love these historical fiction stories. While it hurts to read them, knowing it actually happened, I find it fascinating at the same time.

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    1. It's interesting to see historical perspectives on crime, especially without the use of technology we have today. I can't wait for you to read it. :)

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  7. Sounds like a wonderful book. Thanks for the opportunity.

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  8. I, too, am part of the Celebrate Lit tour for this book. Am anxious to read it.

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  9. This sounds very interesting and I’ve been following the “true crimes” series. I have read The White City and am looking forward to The Pink Bonnet in my book club.
    perrianne(DOT)askew(AT)me(DOT)com
    Perrianne Askew

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    1. Thanks, Perrianne! These are great book club books!

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