Love is worth the risk
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]