Introduction | Biographical Sketch | Scope and Content | Series Description | Inventory |

Introduction

The Alice Brilmayer Collection consists of 2 cubic feet of novel manuscripts and a small section of author's files. The latter include judge's scoring sheets with comments from the NW Houston RWA Tenth Annual Lone Star Writing Competition and a proof of Night Secrets by Norah J. Perkin that was sent to Alice Brilmayer.

Alice Brilmayer also writes under the pen names of Alice Gaines and Alice Chambers. Her novels include themes of fantasy, mystery, historical and futuristic romance.

Alice Brilmayer transferred her collection to the Browne Popular Culture Library, Bowling Green State University, in September 2000. The collection has no restrictions placed on its use for scholarly purposes. Researchers are responsible for securing copyright permission when using all unpublished manuscripts and published works, whether authored by Alice Brilmayer or by other writers whose work may be found in this collection.

This finding aid was prepared by Mary Koslovsky in November 2005.

Biographical Sketch

Alice Brilmayer began writing as an escape from a secretarial job that she described as "miserable." She had never written fiction before and soon realized that she loved writing romance stories from her imagination hoping that others would like them as much as she did.

By 1994, she had written five books and one novella. Her first manuscript sold to Red Saga Publishing was The Spinner's Dream. The story appeared in the first volume of Secrets in 1995. Waitangi Nights was published by Love Spell in 1996. Another one of her works, Moon of the Jaguar, was published as an e-book by Hard Shell World Factory. Subsequently, she has published Taming America (2000); The Education of Miss Felicity Wells (2000); Always a Princess (2001); The Right Medicine (2004); My Champion, My Love (2002) and By Fate's Hand (2004).

She continues to write and live with her husband in Oakland, California. She has a Ph.D. in personality psychology from a large west coast university.

Scope and Content

The Alice Brilmayer Collection is comprised of 2 cubic feet of edited manuscripts, proofs, drafts, synopses, correspondence and other documents dating from 2000-2004.

Manuscripts included in this collection illustrate the various stages involved in writing for publication. An example of this is Always a Princess which includes manuscripts (1st and 2nd versions), proofs (including five autographed copies), synopses (1st, 2nd and 3rd versions), editor's correspondence, author's questionnaire and sample book cover.

Series Description

LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS

Novel Manuscripts
2000-2004
Arranged chronologically.
Include edited copies, galleys, revised drafts, synopses, correspondence, a sample book cover and an author questionnaire.

SUBJECT FILES

Author's Files
Undated.
No arrangement.
Includes judge's scoring sheets from the NW Houston RWA Tenth Annual Lone Star Writing competition for a manuscript chapter "Can't Hide Love". Also included is a galley proof of Night Secrets by Norah J. Perkin that was sent to Alice Brilmayer.

Inventory

Box 1 Manuscripts

Folder

1. Education of Miss Felicity Wells (2000). Edited manuscript. Chapters 1-2
2. Education of Miss Felicity Wells (2000). Edited manuscript. Chapters 3-5
3. Training Angelica (2000). Galley. Chapters 1-5
4. Training Angelica. Galley. Chapters 6-11
5. Training Angelica. Galley. Chapters 12-18
6. Training Angelica. Galley. First Synopsis
7. Training Angelica. Galley. Second Synopsis
8. Training Angelica. Galley. Third Synopsis
9. Always a Princess (2001). Edited manuscript. Chapters 1-3
10. Always a Princess. Edited manuscript. Chapters 4-6
11. Always a Princess. Edited manuscript. Chapters 7-9
12. Always a Princess. Edited manuscript. Chapters 10-12
13. Always a Princess. Edited manuscript. Chapters 13-15
14. Always a Princess. Edited manuscript. Chapters 16-18
15. Always a Princess. Edited manuscript. Chapters 19-20
16. Always a Princess. Edited manuscript (second version). Chapters 1-3

Box 2: Novel Manuscripts

Folder

1. Always a Princess. Edited manuscript (second version). Chapters 4-6
2. Always a Princess. Edited manuscript (second version). Chapters 7-9
3. Always a Princess. Edited manuscript (second version). Chapters 10-12
4. Always a Princess. Edited manuscript (second version). Chapters 13-15
5. Always a Princess. Edited manuscript (second version). Chapters 16-19
6. Always a Princess. Edited manuscript (second version). Changes and Insertions
7. Always a Princess. Galley. Chapters 1-5
8. Always a Princess. Galley. Chapters 6-11
9. Always a Princess. Galley. Chapters 12-18
10. Always a Princess. Galley (Autographed by Author). Copy 1
11. Always a Princess. Galley (Autographed by Author). Copy 2
12. Always a Princess. Galley (Autographed by Author). Copy 3
13. Always a Princess. Galley (Autographed by Author). Copy 4
14. Always a Princess. Galley (Autographed by Author). Copy 5

Box 3: Novel Manuscripts

Folder

1. Always a Princess. First Synopsis
2. Always a Princess. Second Synopsis
3. Always a Princess. Third Synopsis
4. Always a Princess. Author Questionnaire
5. Always a Princess. Editor's correspondence
6. Always a Princess. Sample book cover
7. Sins of the Father (2002). Contest scores, Manuscript chapter
8. Sins of the Father. Contract
9. The Homecoming (short story). Manuscript
10. The Homecoming (short story). Galley
11. My Champion, My Love (2002). Manuscript. Chapters 1-3
12. My Champion, My Love. Manuscript. Chapters 4-5
13. My Champion, My Love. Edited manuscript. Chapters 1-3
14. My Champion, My Love. Edited manuscript. Chapters 4-5
15. My Champion, My Love. Revision letter from publisher
16. Secrets, Vol. 8 (novellas) (2002). Galley - Jared's Wolf
17. Secrets, Vol. 8 (novellas) (2002). Galley - Kiss or Kill
18. Secrets, Vol. 8 (novellas) (2002). Galley - My Champion, My Love
19. Secrets, Vol. 8 (novellas) (2002). Galley - Taming Kate
20. The Right Medicine (2004). Edited manuscript. Draft, Pages 1-50
21. The Right Medicine. Original synopsis
22. The Right Medicine. Rejection letter
23. The Right Medicine. Revised synopsis
24. The Right Medicine. Revised Manuscript (for Silhouette Romance). Chapters 1-3
25. The Right Medicine. Revised Manuscript. Chapters 4-6

Box 4: Novel Manuscripts/Author's Files

Folder

1. The Right Medicine. Revised Manuscript. Chapters 7-9
2. The Right Medicine. Revised Manuscript. 2 Chapters 10-12
3. The Right Medicine. Original scene sketches
4. The Right Medicine. Synopsis
5. The Right Medicine. Synopsis and partial manuscript draft
6. Can't Hide Love (n.d.) Manuscript. Chapters 1-3
7. Can't Hide Love. Manuscript. Chapters 4-6
8. Can't Hide Love. Manuscript. Chapters 7-9
9. Can't Hide Love. Manuscript. Chapters 10-12
10. Can't Hide Love. Manuscript. Chapters 13-14
11. Can't Hide Love. Manuscript. Chapters 15-16
12. Millionaire Madison (partial manuscript), n.d.
13. Competition chapter - Judge 191
14. Competition chapter - Judge 213
15. Competition chapter - Judge 221
16. Night Secrets by Norah J. Perkin (Galley), 2001

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