Love is worth the risk
Once characters, fully formed and alive, populate an authors head, they and their friends and relatives keep coming back. You may remember the complicated family connections in The Ashmead Heirs, in which the old earl’s bastards were named in his will and given all the unentailed property. The Bensons and the Caulfields and their friends […]
Please join Misty Urban for the facts about the Monmouthshire Canal and the Cefn Flight, the setting for her novel The Knight Falls First. Something that drew me to 1799 Newport, Wales, for the setting of my books Viscount Overboard and its sequel, The Knight Falls First, were the enormous changes overtaking the area at […]
One down and one to go in my parade of novellas. “Well Done, Harry” went to the editor Friday. To get it there I had to consolidate comments from my beta readers***, edit it, add an author’s note and my bio, and proof it word by word. For that last step, I’m now using the […]
Join Sara Adrien for the facts about Jews in Regency Society that lie behind her novel Margins of Love They dressed like the aristocracy.They dined in Mayfair.They spoke perfect English.But they were hiding everything that truly mattered. If you’ve read even a handful of Regency romances, you know the world well:Ballrooms.Dukes.Family names that carry centuries […]
I was up to my, er, neck in alligators last week with an electrician coming and going, calls aimed at hiring painters, multiple church meetings, my weekly volunteer gig, a Belles meeting regarding our planned collections, and follow up to that. In spite of my delicate dance through the swamp, I got a newsletter out […]