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Robin Solit
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My new Gothic novel, Mademoiselle Frankenstein, is an evocative retelling of Mary Shelley’s beloved classic tale.
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Share your Gothic musings!
August 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Snowy night.
My feet.
Bloody gloves in the street.

Thoughts?

Mademoiselle Frankenstein
www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4TVPS13

#gothic #creepy #bloodyglove #noir #snowynight #robinsolit
August 16, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Melancholy & the Sublime

Beauty can break your heart. Gothic lit makes the pain linger. Settings are soulscapes. Despair has a strange, aching sweetness.

Mademoiselle Frankenstein, Gothic novel:

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#sublime #pain #gothic #robinsolit #mademoisellefrankenstein
August 7, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Mademoiselle Frankenstein, Gothic novel, available now:

www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4TVPS13

#robinsolit #gothicliterature #wordgame #mademoisellefrankenstein #motherslove #girlsnames
August 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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One of my art forms is watercolor photography. “Baby Talk” starts with real dolls posed in scenes. Then I paint those pics.

I think you’ll see how they vibe with my Gothic novel, Mademoiselle Frankenstein and film noir.
#photoart #gothic #robinsolit

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The Gothic Sweetness of “Baby Talk” — ROBIN SOLIT
It’s easy to assume that dolls, by their very nature, are vessels of comfort—ciphers for childhood, safety, and softness. Or super-creepy monsters, like Chucky. But in my Baby Talk series of paintin...
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July 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Before I knew I was Gothic, my hands knew. This is a sculpture I created…proto-Gothic.

Porcelain clay. Hollowed hair. White roses.

She looks away, but the past looks back. Always.

#GothicArt #Porcelainclay #MidnightRiverPress #RobinSolit #ArtistAuthor #MademoiselleFrankenstein
July 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Do you know of the actor David Rintoul — the dreamiest Mr Darcy, the terrifying Mad King in Game of Thrones?

He narrated my Gothic novel, Mademoiselle Frankenstein.

A mesmerizing performance!

Available now: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F5RS6GWH

#audiobooks #davidrintoul #mademoisellefrankenstein
July 20, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Have you experienced this particular wrestling match when writing historical fiction?: How modern should I make my heroine?

Classic? Of the moment?

#gothicnovels #historicalfiction #mademoisellefrankenstein #heroines

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The Case Against Modernizing Classic Heroines — ROBIN SOLIT
In today’s retellings of classic stories, it’s become almost reflexive to modernize the female lead, even if the time in which it’s set is still long ago. She’s sharp-tongued, rebellious, often hilari...
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July 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Sometimes you can tell when a girl will grow up to be a Gothic hellion.

Any hellions in your life? Do tell….

#mademoisellefrankenstein #gothic #hellion #silvershoes #baby #robinsolit
July 13, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Stillborn babies were not unusual during the times in which classic Gothic Literature was written.

Some readers and writers think it’s a subject best avoided.

Or not.

Mademoiselle Frankenstein:
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#gothicnovels #babies

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Stillborns in Gothic Literature — ROBIN SOLIT
To write a stillborn child into fiction is to write silence into sound, and absence into form. In Gothic literature, where the boundary between life and death is always porous, the stillborn becomes a...
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July 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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What do you think happened to this chair?

Demon wolves?
Bored vampires?
Someone who lost a quarter?
Time’s ruination?
Unhappy ghosts?

Whatever it was must have been Gothic!

#gothicnovels #mademoisellefrankenstein #ruins #chair #books
July 7, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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In Gothic lit, bodies are never just bodies. They hold memory, trauma, repression. They transform (vampires), tear apart (Dr Moreau’s creatures), resurrect (Mademoiselle Frankenstein).

Now available:

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#gothicnovels #bodies #robinsolit #resurrection
July 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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I love Gothic ephemera. You too? I created a collective card set for my novel, Mademoiselle Frankenstein.

Cards now available on Etsy, with or without signed hardcover.

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#collectiblecards #gothicephemera #gothicnovels #mademoisellefrankenstein
Beyond Bookmarks: Creating Collectible Book Cards — ROBIN SOLIT
I wanted to create something engaging to accompany my book—tactile, visually compelling, and immersive. So, I designed a set of collectible book cards, each a tiny portal into the world of Mademoisel...
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June 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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A Gothic word game. Join in with your own words.

Mademoiselle Frankenstein, a Gothic fever dream, available now:

www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4TVPS13

#gothic #mothers #mademoiselle #robinsolit #wordgame #inherownwords
June 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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The Revolutionary War rages.

She can’t stop now.

Her Creature rises.

Does this story ever end well?

Mademoiselle Frankenstein, Gothic novel, available now:

www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4TVPS13

#gothicnovel #robinsolit #frankenstein #creatures #war
June 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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What’s the relationship between Gothic & goth? Parent-child? Brother-sister? Cousins? Friends? Acquaintances? Strangers?

What do you think?

Mademoiselle Frankenstein, available now: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4TVPS13

#robinsolit #goth #gothicnovel

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Goth vs. Gothic: A Shadowy Kinship — ROBIN SOLIT
They share a root word—and an aura of darkness—but “goth” and “Gothic” are not quite the same thing. Their relationship is not one of identity, but of affinity. When they do meet, the collision is odd...
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June 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Try your rewrite!
June 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Do any of you handwrite your early drafts? This is a page from my first draft of Mademoiselle Frankenstein. Two large blank notebooks. One fountain pen. One bottle of ink.

This style of creation has flow like no other.

Post yours!

Mademoiselle Frankenstein
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June 14, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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I once worked in a Romanian orphanage. That’s a blizzard outside. Those are iron cribs. Those are real babies.

That’s real life Gothic.

#frankensteinretelling #gothicnovel #orphans #babies #heartbreaking #robinsolit #mademoisellefrankenstein
June 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Publishing Horror Stories.

I wrote a novel that takes place during the 1930s.

Legendary publisher George Braziller. Contract signed. Publication time.

Changed his mind. Why? Because a sheriff shot a dog. This in a book with lynching and baby-dying.

Your Publishing Horror Story?

#namenames
June 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Echoes of forgotten stories linger on every street corner.

In Gothic novels, nothing is forgotten. Ghosts, demons, angels, spirits, voices from ancient times.

No one can escape the clamor of the past.

Mademoiselle Frankenstein, available now:

www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4TVPS13

#robinsolit #gothic
June 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Meet my imagined Harry, a minor character in Mademoiselle Frankenstein. Minor, yet memorable.

Woman on a mad quest. Big, brawling man, fugitive from justice. Arctic. Dogs. Ice and fire.

Let’s see a sketch of a book character you love.

Mademoiselle Frankenstein,

www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4TVPS13
June 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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In Gothic literature, a kiss is never just a kiss.

Damnation. Delirium. Awakening. Longing. Lust. Disgust. Hunger. Warning.

All at once.

#mademoisellefrankenstein #gothiclit #kisses #vampires #ghosts #robinsolit

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A Kiss Is Not Just a Kiss — ROBIN SOLIT
In Gothic tales, a kiss is rarely just a kiss. Is it salvation or damnation, passion or poison, a bridge between the living and the dead? From the misty moors of Wuthering Heights to the shadowy cry...
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June 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Gothic emotional intensity. It’s the sweet spot. Let me know your feelings in the comments. Let’s discuss!

Mademoiselle Frankenstein available now:
www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4TVPS13

#gothicnovels #booktalk #literarychat #mademoisellefrankenstein #monster #creature #despair #fury #robinsolit
June 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Dido is a minor character in my gothic novel. She’s a free person in NYC, 1770s. She works in an anatomical lab, washing the bodies of corpses.

I envision her like this.

Post your imagined characters!

Mademoiselle Frankenstein: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4TVPS13

#freeperson #minorcharacter #gothic
May 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM