Ask the Author: Lucine Elizabeth Watson

“Why set your series in the American South?” Lucine Elizabeth Watson

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Lucine Elizabeth Watson Because it is a region embroidered with contradiction — grace and violence, hospitality and hypocrisy, beauty and rot. Where else might love be so dangerous, and legacy so fragile?
Lucine Elizabeth Watson Because I was told not to.

And because no one would let me edit The Richmond Review directly.
Lucine Elizabeth Watson Someone who delights in slow burns and sharp tongues. Who appreciates propriety only when it’s being quietly dismantled. And who believes a well-written letter can be more dangerous than a sword.
Lucine Elizabeth Watson I would never admit to such a thing. And anyone who suggests otherwise is clearly projecting.

Though… if a certain senator’s daughter finds herself mirrored in these pages, I would advise her to consider it a compliment. Mostly.
Lucine Elizabeth Watson Yes.

And often both in the same sentence — though ideally while someone is falling in love and being scandalized at the same time.

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