So...

THE DUKE WHO DIDN'T is coming on September 22, 2020.

https://www.courtneymilan.com/the-duke-who-didnt/

Jeremy Wentworth has been in love with Chloe Fong for as long as he can remember. Maybe it’s time he mentioned that he’s actually a duke?

Amazon: https://smarturl.it/tdwd-amazon 
Apple: https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-duke-who-didnt/id1527687065?mt=11&at=11l5VI&ct=website
Nook: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-duke-who-didnt-courtney-milan/1137498871?ean=2940162988229
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-duke-who-didn-t

Items of interest:

My heroine (Chloe Fong) carries around a clipboard so that she can keep track of her lists. (I had to set the book after 1871 so she can have a clipboard).

The three main characters are Chinese (the hero is biracial); my heroine, like my grandmother, is Hakka. There is a lot of delicious food. There is casual dragging of capitalism. There’s a small farming town that is radically diverse.

My heroine’s mother took the Chinese imperial exams and was a deputy chancellor in the government—a thing that sparks immense joy in me by being historically accurate, because in 1853, 200 women took the imperial exams under the empire formed by a massive Chinese civil war...

One of the tenets of that empire was that women were the equal of men. (The Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace was fucked up in other ways, and tens of millions of people died in the civil war, so I don’t want to lionize it too much.)

My rule in writing this was to carefully nurture my joy—to not say anything publicly about the book, for fear that anxiety would steal my joy and make me second-guess my certainty.

I’ve hit the point where I think it’s time for me to let go of my joy in writing this book, and hope that it brings at least some of you half the joy in the reading that it gave me in the writing.

The real cover will be up soon, and I am SO glad I had the cover shot pre-Covid because it could never have happened now.

So @JeannieLin is here with ALL the dirt from my author notes!!!!

(For the record, #2 at that sitting of the exam was Miss Chung and #3 was Miss Lin). https://twitter.com/JeannieLin/status/1295740069412773890?s=20