Love is worth the risk
Cerise DeLand joins us this week with facts about the Napoleonic wars that demanded spies planted in Britain. The true bits in my novel, LORD HALSEY’S TEMPTESTUOUS MINX, provide motivation and the central problem for my characters, Inès Bechard and Evan, Lord Halsey, to solve. In 1805, after the victory at Trafalgar, Bonaparte’s turn of […]
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 […]
Elizabeth Donne, fellow Bluestocking Belle, joins us this week to share facts about women’s lives she discovered while writing about the Ladies of Munro. Because Ladies of Munro is a series, my research for those five books turned up a TON (pardon the pun) of information, all of which would be impossible to share in […]
For much of the eighteenth Century, Roman Catholics in England faced penalties for not attending Church of England services. They were also restricted from voting, holding public office (including as an officer in the army or a magistrate) or sitting in Parliament. The Papists Act 1778 allowed Catholics to own land, provided they took an […]
Courtney McCaskill joins us to day to give us surprising facts from her novel One Bed for the Bluestocking Kit emitted a high-pitched scream as the Upper Museum’s most popular resident strolled over to greet them. He grabbed Nathaniel’s arm, pulling him toward the door. “Mr. Sterling! Run! There’s a lion!” While researching the University […]
The heroine of “Charred Hope” in Love’s Perilous Road lives on a widow’s pension. What does that mean in fact? I assumed her pension would be small and barely enough to live on. I wasn’t wrong. In the Napoleonic era the widow of a British officer was entitled to a pension, and as the widow […]
Join Rue Allyn who tells us the facts about ghostly phenomena or at least what she’s learned to make her story plausible. In my next two books (still in progress) I’ll be branching out into what used to be called Paranormal Romance and I believe is now termed Romantasy. Regardless of the specific sub-genre name […]