Love is worth the risk
None of the books I’ve been remembering on Throwback Thursdays comes close to the joy I’ve gotten from Dame Dorothy Dunnett’s books. I was sixteen the summer I picked up The Game of Kings. I remember walking to a babysitting gig and reading every step of the way along the sidewalk because I couldn’t put […]
“Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes When children appear in books for adults they are often the voice of conscience, the sound of a prophet, the whisper of innocence. It is the child who points out that the emperor has […]
Dangerous Weakness, now available for pre-order on Amazon, will be released in the wild on September 30. Between now and early November, I plan to tour the InterWebs introducing the characters, teasing readers with excerpts, and talking about my hobbyhorse, historical research. Look for an announcement in a few days about a prize package linked […]
In a previous piece I described how I look for public domain graphics to illustrate blog posts, Facebook posts, and memes about the Regency era. Today i want to write about a particularly knotty problem. How do I find a portrait to stand in for my hero? When I envisioned Richard Hayden, the Marquess of […]
If you have read the books or blogs of Jude Knight, you know she is a master of character creation. She offers a free copy of A Baron for Becky to one random commenter. In this piece, the author interviews the Duchess of Haverford, who has a supporting (but pivotal) role in A Baron for […]
If you read my blog posts here, on the Teatime Tattler, or on History Imagined, you will have noticed they are frequently illustrated with paintings. They provide period atmosphere and imagination starters. Since the Dangerous Works, Dangerous Secrets, and Dangerous Weakness are all set during the late Georgian period of English history (also know as […]
The clicking you hear is from my hands flying across the keyboard. Much to do, Much to do! Blame it on travel. First of all I am back at the novella set in Venice I promised myself (while on the airplane home) I would finish this summer. I did a full run through and so […]
We have a visitor on the blog today. An author that writes romance that’s plaid to the bone. If you love all things Scotland, you’re going to enjoy Julie. About Julie Doherty Julie is a member of Romance Writers of America and Central PA Romance Writers. When not writing, she enjoys antiquing, shooting longbow, traveling, […]
Writing is one thing; selling books is another. Many writers finally get their book published and “out there,” feel like they’ve finally climbed the mountain, and turn around only to see an even higher peak lying right ahead of them. There are grizzlies in those mountains and dangers all around. In the world of self-publishing, […]
I’m still doing the happy dance after finding the paperback version of Dangerous Works on Barnes & Noble. The rest of the world, if they are aware of me at all, probably scratched their head and asked, “Didn’t that book come out last year?” Well, yes and no. If you are a happy member of […]