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Rosemary In Wheat
Cate's ramblings on writing, opera, and (she hopes one day) writing opera
Basic Account, Created on 9 March 2005 (#6393976), Last updated on 27 January 2013 [Gift]
- Name:
- Cate
- Location:
- Alberta, Canada
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- 19th century literature, abolitionist veganism, alan moore, andrew ffoulkes, animal rights, anthony andrews, austen, authors, baroness emmuska orczy, baroness orczy, blackadder, blakeney manor, book reviews, books, bookselling, bookstores, britain, buy local, c. guy clayton, characterization, charles fraser, classical music, creativity, crochet, crocheting, cruelty free, cruelty-free, diana damrau, dorothea roschmann, dorothea röschmann, dorothy l. sayers, dorothy parker, drama, duchesse d'angouleme, duchesse d'angoulême, dykes, editors, eldorado, elizabeth george, emma donoghue, emmuska orczy, england, equal rights, famous five, feminism, fiction, fitness, gary l. francione, gay pride, gay rights, georgette heyer, glbt, harriet vane, healthy diets, historical fiction, history, imagination, including all possible spellings, irene parlby, jack blakeney, jane austen, laurie r. king, learning, lesbian fiction, lesbian pride, lesbians, lgbt, literature, local bookstores, lord hastings, lord peter wimsey, madame royale, mansfield park, marguerite saint-just, marguerite st. just, marie therese, marie thérèse, marie-therese, marie-thérèse, marie-thérèse-charlotte de france, marketing, mary robinson, mary russell, mary wollstonecraft, medieaval baebes, melanie fraser, michael ball, moulin rouge, nanowrimo, nellie mcclung, north and south, northanger abbey, novel writing, novels, opera, opera history, orczy, percy blakeney, persuasion, peter wimsey, philosophy, pimpernel, plot, pride, pride and prejudice, publishing, queer issues, ravelry, ravelry.com, reading, regency england, repo: the genetic opera, researching, rinat shaham, running, same sex marriage, san francisco pride, san francisco pride 2011, sarah brightman, sassy magazine, scarlet pimpernel, sense and sensibility, setting, shakespeare, sherlock holmes, short stories, silly wizard, siwc, sophia dewhurst, steampunk, stories, storytelling, suffragettes, technical theatre, the elusive pimpernel, the scarlet pimpernel, theater, theatre, tracy grant, traveling, v for vendetta, vegan cooking, veganism, vegetarianism, wilkie collins, women's rights, writing, yarn, yarn crafts
- Bio
- I've been involved with books all my life, starting with summer reading programs at six years old.
My professional career with books started at university, where I moved to the "big" city and discovered my first independent bookstore. After shopping there a couple of years, the owners offered me a part-time job.
Sadly, my first little independent is no more, but I went on to work for a small chain of bookstores and then another independent store, where I'm currently the manager, events co-ordinator, and assistant buyer. I also had a stint as the regional sales rep for a group of small publishers. In total, I have more than a decade's experience in the bookselling industry.
This blog started as a reading diary, to help me keep track of what I was reading and to be able to go back at remember what I thought of it at a later time. An alphabetical list can be found here.
As I made friends on LiveJournal, I started making more personal posts about my life and my work on my own novels.
My thanks to
thefulcrum for the lovely layout and paledestiny for the Scarlet Pimpernel mood theme. Now, if only I could make them work together.
Best wishes,
Cate