Love is worth the risk
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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? […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]