She still fences competitively and coaches. As a senior, she was one of the first physically disabled athletes to individually qualify for any NCAA Championship event, and helped her team to an end-of-season 10th place ranking by the National Coaches Poll. She was a featured Rooted in Rights disability activist, and is the founder of Disabled Kidlit Writers (FB).Īs an undergraduate, Lillie was a member of Yale’s Varsity Fencing team. She’s received recognition from Glimmer Train and The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, and is the 2019 Winner of the LA Review Literary Award for Short Fiction. Her fiction, non-fiction, and poetry has been featured in The LA Review, The Washington Post Outlook, Today’s Parent, via the Disability Visibility Project, Washington City Paper, and The Yale Daily News, amongst other places. She currently is studying for her MA in Creative Writing Prose Fiction at University of East Anglia. in English with a concentration in creative writing and distinction within the major from Yale University. This debut novel is a fierce, whirlwind adventure about the depth of found family, the strength that goes beyond the body, and the determination it takes to fight for what you love. Torn between duty and dizzying emotion, Tania will have to lean on her friends, listen to her own body, and decide where her loyalties lie…or risk losing everything she’s ever wanted. He’s kind, charming, and breathlessly attractive-and he might have information about what really happened to her father. But then she meets Étienne, her first target in uncovering a potential assassination plot. With her newfound sisters at her side, Tania feels for the first time like she has a purpose, like she belongs.

And they don’t shy away from a swordfight.

It’s a secret training ground for a new kind of Musketeer: women who are socialites on the surface, but strap daggers under their skirts, seduce men into giving up dangerous secrets, and protect France from downfall. But L’Académie des Mariées, Tania realizes, is no finishing school. His dying wish? For Tania to attend finishing school. Then Papa is brutally, mysteriously murdered. But Tania wants to be strong, independent, a fencer like her father-a former Musketeer and her greatest champion. Everyone in town thinks her near-constant dizziness makes her weak, nothing but “a sick girl” even her mother is desperate to marry her off for security. Tania de Batz is most herself with a sword in her hand. An OwnVoices, gender-bent retelling of The Three Musketeers, in which a girl with a chronic illness trains as a Musketeer and uncovers secrets, sisterhood, and self-love.

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