Most of my ballgowns. . .
- Michalea Moore
- May 15
- 1 min read
My daughter’s voice teacher sang with the Italian Grand Opera and was elegance personified.
One day, she confided — rather proudly — that she’d been simplifying her life.
“I’ve gotten rid of most of my ballgowns.”
I nearly fell over.
I had never heard the words most and ballgowns in the same sentence, and I immediately knew I wanted to steal that line for fiction.
Enter Maren Catarina Lilienthal, the heroine of my Wheel of the Year Mysteries.
Fashionista. Wiccan. Former heiress. Collector of vintage black dresses, moon jewelry, and dramatic life choices.
Her lover, Cyrus Harper — tech billionaire, owner of too many homes, and frequent attendee of impossible social events — doesn’t exactly discourage her. In fact, by book two, he hires a closet organizer for her wardrobe. The organizer asks her, “Do you think you’ll keep most of your ballgowns here in Chicago?” And then informs her that Cyrus keeps tuxedos in all his houses.
When I get bored, I go shopping for Maren. (Unlike me, she has an unlimited budget.) Here are a few of the acquisitions that made it to the part of my Character Bible in the section called Maren's Wardrobe . . .
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