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Joanna Lowell | A Slow-burn Victorian Romance
Author Guest / February 21, 2023

1–What is the title of your latest release? ARTFULLY YOURS 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? It’s a slow-burn Victorian romance about an art forger who gets dangerously entangled with the one man capable of seeing through her. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I’ve always loved Pre-Raphaelite paintings and they inspired me to write a series of books set in and around the late 19th century London art world. The first book, The Duke Undone, follows Lucy, a painting student at the Royal Academy. She wants to paint dazzling pictures and make a name for herself. With Artfully Yours, I imagined a heroine with a very different relationship to art. Nina never signs her name to anything she paints. As a forger, she exists in the art world’s shadow. Scenes take place in galleries and auction houses and museums, but also in the forger’s workshop, where she fakes Rembrandts with her brother. 4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? I would, absolutely. I wrote Artfully Yours during the pandemic lockdown, when I was at peak loneliness and missing everyone. As a result, Nina feels more like a friend…