Victorian Women Scientists

Highlighting the facts behind historical romance with Elizabeth Everett on women scientists in the Victorian era. One of the joys of writing historical romance is doing research before writing the book. Some of the research makes it into the book, but most of it lives in my head, giving me the context for my characters. […]

How to Be a Debutante

Highlighting the facts behind historical romance with Amanda McCabe on the process—and ordeal—of being presented at court. One of the fun things I researched for His Unlikely Duchess (and for “The Dollar Duchesses” series in general!) was the process of being an “official” debutante at the royal court of the nineteenth century.  It was a […]

Blessings in a Time of Solitude

A fit of grim humor came over me this week I searched for plague jokes. Sometimes laughter is the only medicine that works. But they wore thin. Beloved and I were already keeping in solitude a week ago, you may recall. After a few days of ambivalence and confusion about that we concluded we were […]

Enchantment, Legend, and the Cloutie Tree

Highlighting Historical Romance: Luanna Stewart Thank you, Caroline, for inviting me to visit with your readers. The Enchanted Keepsakes collection of novels revolves around a central legend – that of a witch doomed to roam through time and space, her one goal being to grant wishes. When I began working on the idea for my […]

Highlighting Historical Romance: Christy Carlyle

This week an interview with historical romance author Christy Carlyle, author of CW:  Why do you write historical romance? I’ve always loved history. My grandpa was a big history buff, and he’d let me take home his books whenever I found one I liked. When I went to college, it was really hard to decide […]

The End

Is it a spoiler to tell you they lived happily ever after? In the final chapter I wrote this description: His eyes fixated on the bride who wore a gown of copper colored lace, some exotic shade Rand had never seen, one that complemented her skin and eyes perfectly.  So what might that actually look […]