Love is worth the risk
Earl’s Granddaughter Reduced to Serving Wench, The Teatime Tattler April 1815 Spotted cleaning the halls of a provincial inn: an earl’s granddaughter. Lady Wxxx and Miss Hxxx confirmed to this reporter that Miss Patience Abney, currently toiling beside the lowest servants in The Queen’s Barque—seen sweeping, scrubbing and even emptying night soil—is in fact the […]
A writer’s work is never done–even when she struggles to get to the writing of books. In 48 hours at the end of last week I published two blogs, scheduled a third, put out my newsletter, and partied with the Bluestocking Belles on Facebook for two hours. All that and I didn’t even get to […]
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. […]
The Value of Pity progresses slowly. There’s been a terrible accident. Here’s a bit for WIP Wednesday. *** People were milling around and hollering— she had no idea what they said—panic rose. Find Arthur. Find Arthur. Find Arthur. Find Arthur. He could be somewhere in the tangle of wheels and wood, but when she saw […]
…It took the Christian Church centuries to decide when to celebrate Easter and we’re still not all on the same page. The earliest Church simply followed their Jewish brethren and celebrated Easter on Passover, which date is determined by a lunar calendar. Some locations chose to celebrated it on a Sunday, the one during or […]