Love is worth the risk
Join Ramona Elmes as she describes the impact the telegraph had on Victorian life and on her novel The Intimate Words of a Liberated Lady. Today, I’m excited to share details about the telegraph, a Victorian marvel. In my book, The Intimate Words of a Liberated Lady, a lord and a widow are blackmailed to […]
This week let me share with you the challenges in writing about composers in the early 19th century In the opening passage of “Music in the Night” my vision was that Annie would be playing the Moonlight Sonata. The story takes place in 1820, and Owen heard her play it seven years before, in 1813. […]
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 […]
Life, as always, rolls along, sometimes aiding the writing, sometimes interfering. Dogsitting, for example. I always swore I would never call a small animal my “Granddog” no matter how adorable and affectionate he might be. Family is family; dogs are dogs. But lately I’m softening. My daughter’s dog visited for the weekend while his hoomans […]
Join Alina K. Field for the facts about the Real Macbeth that lie behind her novel Fated Hearts A few years ago I took on the project of adapting the story of Shakespeare’s Macbeth for the Tragic Characters in Literature series. My mission? Move Macbeth’s story into the Regency era and give him the happy-ever-after […]
I returned from Sin City this weekend ready to write and confirmed in the general direction of my plans. The master class on Tension and Conflict was super helpful and so were sessions on Female Archtypes, Marketing, and Medical History among others. Hobnobbing with other writers is always motivating and motivational. What did I learn? […]
I’m jetting off to Vegas tomorrow. Lest you think I’ve take a sudden and uncharacteristic turn toward decadence, I should clarify that I’m going to attend the Historical Novel Society of North America conference. I will be able to hobnob with authors, chat with agents, take a master class on Conflict that Hooks and one […]
So I plugged away last week after a hiccup for character work and some mulling over plot and “Valentine Wishes” is coming a long. I also spent some time working with Night Cafe, a fairly simple AI tool. If I give it a fairly detailed description, it sometimes give me something back that is usable […]