Drēma Drudge
on Tour
March 17-April 13
with
Victorine
(literary/historical fiction)
Release date: March 17, 2020
at Fleur-de-Lis Press
362 pages
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SYNOPSIS
Victorine, Drema Drudge’s debut novel, features Victorine Meurent, a forgotten, accomplished painter who posed nude for Edouard Manet’s most famous, controversial paintings such as Olympia and The Picnic in Paris, paintings heralded as the beginning of modern art. History has forgotten (until now) her paintings, despite the fact that she showed her work at the prestigious Paris Salon multiple times, even one year when her mentor, Manet’s, work was refused.
Her persistent desire in the novel is not to be a model anymore but to be a painter herself, despite being taken advantage of by those in the art world, something which causes her to turn, for a time, to every vice in the Paris underworld, leading her even into the catacombs.
In order to live authentically, she eventually finds the strength to flout the expectations of her parents, bourgeois society, and the dominant male artists (whom she knows personally) while never losing her capacity for affection, kindness, and loyalty. Possessing both the incisive mind of a critic and the intuitive and unconventional impulses of an artist, Victorine and her survival instincts are tested in 1870, when the Prussian army lays siege to Paris and rat becomes a culinary delicacy, and further tested when she inches towards art school while financial setbacks push her away from it. The same can be said when it comes to her and love, which becomes substituted, eventually, by art.
Note by the author:
Potential participants may want to know that my main character, a real historical person, Victorine Meurent, is libertine in her sexual nature — she likes both men and women.
BOOK TRAILER
VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE
Wednesday, March 17
Review and Giveaway at Books Are Cool
Friday, March 19
Spotlight and giveaway at Words And Peace
Wednesday, March 24
Review, Excerpt, and Giveaway
at Locks, Hooks and Books
Tuesday, March 30
Review and Giveaway at Bookish Ramblings
Wednesday, April 7
Review and Giveaway at A l’ouest
Tuesday, April 13
Review and Giveaway at Unabridged Chick
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Drēma Drudge
suffers from Stendhal’s Syndrome,
the condition in which one becomes overwhelmed in the presence of great art.
She attended Spalding University’s MFA in Creative Writing Program
where she learned to transform that intensity into fiction.
Drēma has been writing in one capacity or another since she was nine,
starting with terrible poems and graduating to melodramatic stories in junior high
that her classmates passed around literature class.
She and her husband, musician and writer Barry Drudge, live in Indiana
where they record their biweekly podcast, Writing All the Things, when not traveling.
Her first novel, Victorine, was literally written in six countries while she and her husband wandered the globe.
The pair has two grown children.
In addition to writing fiction, Drēma has served as a writing coach, freelance writer, and educator.
For more about her writing, art, and travels,
please visit her website, and sign up for her newsletter to receive a free historical fiction story.
She’s always happy to connect with readers in her Facebook group, The Painted Word Salon,
or on Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
or on any other book blog participating in this tour.
Visit/Follow the participating blogs on Facebook/Twitter,
as listed in the entry form below, and win more entry points!
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will give you 5 extra entries each time!
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Global giveaway open to all
5 winners will receive an ecopy of this book
2 responses to “Drema Drudge on tour: Victorine”
Denise Duvall
January 28th, 2021 at 19:40
Why is always the men, painters, remain famous, but the women, models, who are also talented artists fade into obscurity?
WordsAndPeace
January 29th, 2021 at 08:56
Definitely in keeping with the mentality of the time. Sorry the author only accept blogs for this tour
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