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On Good Authority is a Victorian Gothic/Romantic Suspense story in which a lady’s maid called Marian Osley must teach a terrible master the difference between servitude and surrender—and confront her dark desire for the footman, Valentine Hobbs, along the way.Visit Briana Una McGuckin's website.
I don’t generally cast people in my head as I’m writing, but when the book was done I did happen to see an image on my Google home screen of Timothée Chalamet attending some event in connection with Little Women. He was in a dark vest and white shirt, and I had to do a double-take. I may have said, out loud to no one, “Valentine Hobbs?”
Since, in conversation about who would play the leads in my dreams, I said I would...[read on]
Q&A with Briana Una McGuckin.
My Book, The Movie: On Good Authority.
--Marshal Zeringue