Sandra Gulland
About me
I am the author of the Josephine B. Trilogy, internationally best-selling novels about Napoleon’s wife, now published in seventeen countries.
My most recent novel, Mistress of the Sun, also published internationally, is set in mid-17th century France at the court of the Sun King.
In the spring of 2012, I will be publishing another novel set in this court, and, after that, I will be writing a Young Adult novel (or two) about Josephine’s daughter Hortense.
I am a wife, mother of two adults, grandmother (yay!).
My husband and I live half the year in rural Ontario, Canada, and the other half in urban (well, it’s a village) San Miguel de Allende in central Mexico.
In reality, however, I’m either in 17th-18th century France or on the Net, usually both.
Find me online
Recent tweets
So inspiring! "Book seller Sarah McNally: Hipster writes her own business rule book" http://t.co/8VXJfC0Mrm
"Lost in Memory Lane" -- a blog post on character dev. and much, much more. http://t.co/ExrG8bXdb6
“@amyszzz: @Sandra_Gulland But the poem will be upside down! ;)” Funny!
The first watermelon salad of the summer. http://t.co/vRKgiTB38C
Article on the real costs of self-publishing ... a good discussion in the comments. http://t.co/6Phx1wBV3E
From my website
Sometimes a silence builds up like a damn: I’ve so much to report I don’t report anything. So here goes: Today I sent my Canadian and U.S. publishers suggestions for the cover art for THE SHADOW QUEEN. (Wow: it’s really happening.) This took all morning—during which there was an earthquake!—and…
Avoiding bookkeeping, and Jeffrey Eugenides on getting it right
I’m getting ready to pack up my winter office in Mexico and return to Canada. This entails going through piles of papers, journals stacked up, bills. Instead of attending to that last stack, I’m quickly posting here from a page I tore off from Bookmarks Magazine (Nov/Dec 2011: note the year!),…
My father died recently, my mother many years before. I was with my mother when she died, and with my father in his last hours. My mother had the good fortune to die at home, under Hospice care. My sister Robin and her partner Betsy came prepared with a bag…