Written by Denny S. Bryce
Welcome to THE OTHER PRINCESS BOOK CLUB KIT page. I have created book club kits for all of my releases, and this page is dedicated to The Other Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria’s Goddaughter. I am thrilled to be able to bring this kit to those book clubs that read and wish to discuss my first biographical historical fiction. On this page, you will find the contents of the PDF, also available to download here. Thank you for reading.
Available for virtual or in-person discussions
I love meeting with book clubs! If your group of ten or more members is interested in a Zoom Chat with Denny S. Bryce, please email me at denny@dennysbryce.com. These 30 to 45-minute conversations are complimentary and scheduled per my availability.
For in-person events, please email me denny@dennysbryce.com to discuss honorariums and travel and hotel accommodations if applicable.
History takes some surprising paths to reveal itself, even to a history geek like myself. I remember watching (and enjoying) the 2016 PBS Masterpiece program Victoria. In episode seven, a character was introduced, an African princess and ward of Queen Victoria, Sarah Forbes Bonetta. I immediately Googled her—one of those fact-or-fiction questions—and discovered she was real. Still, at the time, I was an unagented author working on my first novel (Wild Women and the Blues, eventually released in 2021).
The next time I was reminded of Princess Aina (Sarah’s Yoruba name) was in 2019, when Tessa Woodward, executive editor at HarperCollins, tweeted the comment: “Could someone please write a novel about Sarah Forbes Bonetta?”
By then, you’d think I would’ve been all over it, but again, opportunity slipped through my fingers. I was busy finishing my debut novel. But finally, later that same year, I received an inquiry via an author friend and my agent, and the next thing I knew, I wrote a synopsis and a few sample chapters about Sarah Forbes Bonetta. I pitched it to Tessa, and the rest is history! (This is an excerpt from my 2023 Library Journal Interview)
