The blurb:
Lucretia's life as an astronomer is quickly turned on
its head by her eldest brother when he is commanded by the king to build the
grandest telescope in the land. Her nights spent on rooftops gazing at the stars
are replaced by adventure as the family move to be nearer the king. In a race
to build the Forty-foot telescope on time, misfortunes take their toll. The
lady astronomer finds court life to be more dangerous than she could have ever
imagined. Can she find the strength inside to overcome the obstacles
threatening her destiny? Only the stars will tell.
A few facts:
I wrote The Lady Astronomer for my eldest son –
he was jealous that I had used my younger son’s name in something else I was
writing.
I work with an Astronomer on books that require
his expert knowledge – the idea for The Lady Astronomer came to me while
reading another book that he recommended I read.
The Lady Astronomer is inspired by the life of
Caroline Herschel (1750-1848). She suffered from both Smallpox and Typhus, was
a milliner, soprano, her brother William’s Assistant – he discovered Uranus,
then known as George’s Star for the King who funded the build of the ‘Great
Forty-Foot’ telescope – and most importantly, perhaps, became the first woman
in recorded history to discover a comet. Not to mention the first woman in the
UK to receive a working wage, from the King if you don’t mind.
Publisher:
The Lady Astronomer was published by Untold
Press www.untoldpress.com
on 26th September 2012. It is currently available as an eBook and
paperback.
Katy is an arts and entertainment journalist and
has worked for Time Out, Associated Newspapers and Comic Relief and her
articles have appeared in The Times (London), Metro (London) and many other
arts and entertainment publications, paper and online.
She reviews for the Historical Novels Review and
the British Fantasy Society, is a commissioning editor at Pendragon Press and
is co-editor of the Nasty Snips II Project for that press.
Alongside writing with her Dad under the
pen-name Derry O’Dowd, whose first book ‘The Scarlet Ribbon’ was chosen to
launch the History Press Ireland’s fiction line, she writes under her own name.
‘The Lady Astronomer’, a YA Steampunk novel, is
out with Untold Press. She is currently writing a Steampunk adult series
because writing for tweens and teens is damnably hard work. However, the good
people at Untold might just have persuaded her to write a sequel and short set
in the Lady Astronomer’s world.
Links:
Katy blogs at www.katyodowd.com
Twitter @katyod
Facebook www.facebook.com/katy.odowd
Contact:
katy@pictureandword.com
Where to buy:
You can purchase The Lady Astronomer on Amazon
USA and Amazon UK.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Lady-Astronomer-ebook/dp/B009HIIKS0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350384405&sr=8-1
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