Did you know, during the early months of 1815 London was swept by reports of a pig-faced lady?  A colored engraving of her was sold for a shilling.  It was said she was born in Ireland twenty years prior and that she was from a wealthy family. 

 

You can read more here:  http://www.nonsenselit.org/wordpress/archives/2008/06/15/the-pig-faced-woman-and-the-limerick/

The 2010 theme is Writing Women Back In History. The history of women is often not included in history books. Something we need to change. You can help. Make it a point to read a book about a historical woman or written by a woman this month.

For more information on this topic:

National Women's History Museum
National Women's History Project

Fun trivia test Test Your Knowledge of Women's History

Peers of the realm are the men and women who hold titles. They are the only people who can properly be described as nobles. Even though the wife of a peer is called a peeress, unless she holds a peerage in her own right, she is a commoner in the eyes of the law. Likewise are the children of peers, even if they hold a courtesy title. They are members of the aristocracy, just not the peerage.

How many of you read about the snafu between Amazon and Macmillan over the weekend? The whole issue revolved around the $9.99 price point Amazon had set for e-book's. Amazon has ruled the e-book market until the I-Pad came along to finally shake their stronghold over the industry. With the emergence of the I-Pad, Macmillan now had a bargaining chip on their side and Macmillan didn't blink.

Nathan Bransford, Literary Agent for the Curtis Brown Agency sums it up much better than I can on his blog. He has some really great information there.

You can read all about: The Kindle Missile Crisis

And: What Should an E-book Cost?