Episode 21: The 1920s: Take It or Leave It

Bonus chapters + fashion shoots 💃🏻

Welcome to the Pub Dates newsletter! We’re so glad you’re here.

This newsletter is released as a companion to each podcast episode, and we use it to share the visual elements of our discussion — from mood boards to design sketches, from photos to secret giveaways just for subscribers.

In episode twenty-one, we talked about using the 1920s for inspiration, and how we made choices about what to use and what to discard.

First up, if you listened to the podcast, you know that we’re offering subscribers the chance to get their hands on an annotated first chapter from each of our books. Now, this is a bonus that we’re only offering to subscribers, so please don’t share it — but please do encourage your friends to request it for themselves!

If you’d like annotated first chapters of Nightbirds and The Isles of the Gods, all you need to do is send an email with the subject CHAPTERS to our email, pubdates ~at~ gmail.com, then watch your email for our reply!

If you’re reading this after February 2023, fear not, you’re still eligible — we’ll continue to send them out around the end of each month.

Now, onward! Time for a few pictures of the things we talked about in the episode.

Amie mentioned pictures taken on windjammers—the strange intersection of a photo (new!) taken on a tall ship (old!) featuring people in clothes that don’t feel ‘old fashioned’ to us.

Photo by Alan Villiers, from the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England.

We also mentioned our trip to see a Phryne Fisher fashion exhibit together. Here’s Kate heading upstairs at the fancy old estate, ready to see her some fashion — ever obedient when Amie called out to shoot her a saucy look over her shoulder!

There was a lot of very glitzy fashion at the Phryne Fisher exhibit, and we shamelessly stole it for our books.

And now, finally, one more reminder about Kate’s preorder giveaway and her launch — Nightbirds is out THIS MONTH, so don’t miss your chance!

Kate's preorder and tour details -- click each image to see it enlarged!

And that’s it for this issue! Don’t forget:

If you’d like annotated first chapters of Nightbirds and The Isles of the Gods, all you need to do is send an email with the subject CHAPTERS to our email, pubdates ~at~ gmail.com, then watch your email for our reply!

We’ll see you next time — we’ll have a surprise for you!