The startlingly young age Mimi got her first book deal.

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(The first winners from last week were: Daniel D: Sydney NSW, Karen N, Melbourne VIC, Mona B Lincoln, CA, and Rosemary K. Enter on The Joys of Binge Reading website or on our Binge Reading Facebook page. That’s right, every week we will be giving away twelve Christmas books as our gift to you in our Twelve Days of Christmas giveaway. Yes, for the next three weeks you will have a chance every week to win one of three holiday reading book bundles made up of two historical and two contemporary Christmas stories. To help celebrate the end of what has been a pretty hard year for many of us, Mimi’s Christmas novella, A Holiday by Gaslight, will be one of four books featured in our Twelve Days of Christmas giveaway, starting this week. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and today Mimi talks about her latest book, Gentleman Jim, a rollicking romantic Regency, and tells what it was like to get her first publishing deal when she was still a relatively young teenager. And her playful animal tales in The Pug Who Bit Napoleon, a not-so-romantic interaction that took place on his wedding night, is one of dozens of amusing animal stories from the 18th and 19th centuries Mimi Matthews has enjoyed best-selling success in Victorian fiction and non-fiction, with romances that ask thoughtful social questions as well as entertain. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 37:59 - 38.0MB) | Embedĭon't miss out on the latest episodes.

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