Author’s Blog

War Wounds and Veteran Care

Alina K. Field brings facts about the use of prosthetics in the Regency Era as used in her novel Claims of the Heart June 18 th this year marks the 210 th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo where so many combatants died and others experienced dreadful injuries such as amputations. Surprisingly to me, not […]

Summer Daze

Do you define the beginning of summer as Memorial Day? I tend to, meteorology aside. First of course, we remember the fallen, but it is always a joyful, if hectic, time around here. No parade this year, alas. We headed to the shore last week–feet in the surf, towel on the beach, toes in the […]

Traveling Without Modern Banking

Jude Knight brings us facts about 19th century travel with no internet banking and no American Express! Most of my stories are set in the Regency, and my people tend to zip around the country, and even the world, quite a lot. So I’ve had to get my head around something we in our century […]

Pressing Forward

Big accomplishment last week! I finished “Music in the Night” and shipped it off to Dragonblade for inclusion in Dukes All Night Long. Now, by “finished,” I mean that I merged comments from four beta readers and did a light edit, considered a major insight from one of them, deleted half of the first chapter, […]

The Royal Ascot in Regency England

Join Sara Adrien to learn the facts about Royal Ascot and her novel with Tanya Wilde, Dare To Tempt An Earl This Spring While researching my latest Regency romance, I was captivated by the history and grandeur of the Royal Ascot. Established in 1711 by Queen Anne, the Ascot quickly became more than just a […]