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"Paris, 1828.  Claude Enjolras is a severe, single-minded soldier of the revolution, the leader of a secret political society that is always ready to go to battle against injustice and oppression.  She is also, however, a woman disguising herself as a man in order to reject the demands of society and instead follow her ideals.  For four years Enjolras' disguise has worked well for her, and her contributions to the underground revolutionary movement have at last begun to win her the respect of her colleagues.  But when her secret is inadvertently revealed to her lieutenant, it throws her two separate worlds onto a collision course and sets in

Hey guys, just wanted to let everyone know that I've got a tumblr now: Virago!  It'll be for my new novel, Virago (based on characters from Les Misérables), and I'll post excerpts and art there, as well as historical context stuff for the 1820s/1830s.  If that interests any of my fans here, you can follow my tumblr and see what I come up with! For now, I'm going to post some of my art for the novel here, though I don't yet know if I'll keep up with this page in the future.  I'm also debating whether or not to start a Pinterest page.  I love finding historical fashion pics there, but I'm not sure if it would serve my purpose.  Can any of

Oh, lord, as usual, it's been forever since I've been around.  But time moves on, and so does life, I guess. I've got a PhD now, for those who have the slightest interest in my personal life.  So it's Dr. Cillabub now.  Hurrah hurrah hurrah!    That goes pretty far towards explaining where I've been for the past year. Also explaining where I've been is the extremely long Les Mis story I've been working on for the past few years (at the same time as I was working on my dissertation, eep!).  While I've been writing it, I've been trying to stay out of the fandom as much as possible so as not to cloud my impressions of the original book--it mak