Press Gangs

Elizabeth Donne joins us this week with facts about Royal Navy Press Gangs and the part they play in her novella in Moonlight Madness. My novella, “Always with You,” appears in the Bluestocking Belles’ Halloween-themed anthology, Moonlight Madness, which is available for pre-order until its launch October 15. The price will revert to retail after […]

Thegns and Scribes

Elizabeth Donne Joins us today to talk about medieval thegns and scribes, and how they impacted her story The Legend Begins, Book One of Forevers in Fenwick. Although The Legend Begins is a Regency novella, the legend itself supposedly originated in 924AD with a scribe called Alwin. Medieval scribes are commonly imagined as monks, copying […]

Progress On All Fronts

What a week I had–and another hectic one is approaching. First the big news: Honor at Heart Book One, Family Honor, and Book Two, A Lady’s Honor are up for pre-order! They are on my website with their pre-order links. Family Honor is a novella, originally intended as a prequel to the series. It has […]

Women at Cambridge

Join Anne Knight and read about her research regarding women’s education at Cambridge and her novella, Spinning Our Dreams My novella Spinning Our Dreams revolves around Cambridge University—specifically, Girton College, the first women’s college at Cambridge. It was founded by women with financial backing from progressive men in 1869, and the University grudgingly allowed Girton […]

Old Friends and Archtypes

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 […]

Secret Jews of the Ton

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]