Kelly Scarborough

My historical novel, Butterfly Games is set in Sweden in 1815. Nobility. Toxic Romance.

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@stephenRB4 Atlas Shrugged/The Fountainhead

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@SullyCNBC I love my FSD. I hate renting a car when I travel because I just can’t do without it.

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Want to know what the title means? #ButterflyGames

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She goes to the ball, and her worst suspicions are confirmed. Read Butterfly Games. It's Jacquette's story, based on a real countess who lived in early 1800s Sweden. https://t.co/C8uMvbwVkH

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Did you know that Butterfly Games is out in audiobook? And it's for sale right now on Audible. Get it now and enjoy hearing Jacquette and Oscar's story narrated by audiobook queen @estherwane. Esther has performed many great historicals, both fiction and nonfiction, including by two of my favorite authors, @TracyBorman and @AlisonWeirBooks. Check it out here. Only $6.10 today if you buy from the Audible phone app.
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@ThatEricAlper

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@ThatEricAlper Peaky Blinders

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@stephenRB4 I adored this book.

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@niccruzpatane @Tesla It’s the best car I’ve ever had. Been driving for almost 50 years.

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Be careful. I love FSD, but mine ran into the trim on my house just next to the garage door doing the same thing. I had Tesla pull the logs and I hope it helps them to adjust. It was a bright day and my house is white. It usually stops backing up just short of the garage if it’s at an odd angle, but this time it rolled slowly into the wall. Ouch.

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There is a problem one faces when writing about a woman who had an affair with a prince. Two hundred years later, it is very easy for the affair to become the whole story. That was certainly true of Jacquette Gyldenstol... https://t.co/8JwXEORHAO

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Was the Butterfly Game real?

Yes—and no.

While researching the Swedish royal court for my historical novel, Butterfly Games, I came across the word fjärilsleken—literally, “the butterfly game”—in a biographical reference discussing Queen Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotta’s diaries.

The term referred to fleeting affairs: lovers moving frivolously from one object of affection to another.

I knew almost immediately that I had my title.

But in the novel, the Butterfly Game became something larger: a game of love, marriage, gossip, information, family alliances, ambition—and power.

And a young countess named Jacquette discovers that useful information can be turned against anyone. Even her.

I tell the story behind the title, the real Jacquette Gyldenstolpe, and what’s coming in Book Two in my new Literary Titan interview.

🦋 Read more: https://t.co/cLsrNajAET

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@Tesla FSD has made it possible to overcome my anxiety and to go places I couldn’t go before.

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I don’t believe FSD is at fault in this instance, but my FSD backed into the wall of my house while backing into the garage last week. Just a small sideswipe. In the past, it had always break and then pulled forward to correct it’s an angle. I thought it was going to stop as it always did, and it just didn’t.

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Book Two in the Butterfly Games series turns up the heat on Jacquette, Oscar, and Carl. Here are the literary love triangles inspiring the story.
The post Literary Love Triangles: Team Oscar, Team Carl—or Team Jacquette... https://t.co/azZQKFom2e

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@mikepat711 Mine just FSD’d itself into the trim of my garage door. The house looks slightly better than the car.

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Finspång Castle was more than Jacquette Gyldenstolpe’s childhood home. It was a noble estate, an industrial center, and a place that shaped the heroine of Butterfly Games.
The post Finspång Castle: Inside Jacquette Gyld... https://t.co/XBFaIfwLUb

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@LarryFitzgerald @PlayersTribune My all time favorite NFL star. Many happy memories. Congratulations, @LarryFitzgerald

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The safe choice. The choice of her heart. Two hundred years apart, are Evie and Jacquette so different?

I’ve added Kelley McNeil’s Mayluna to My Bookshelf—and explored why readers drawn to its meaningful love triangle may also enjoy Butterfly Games. https://t.co/6lb1fWSEPv

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