Love is worth the risk
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 […]
I set a tight list of things to do last week and actually accomplished it all. Book three, Inconvenient Honor, has been loaded to Amazon so I will be able to distribute ARC copies this week and begin pre-order. Books 1 and 2 went live and I got most of my links for them updated. […]
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 […]
There are many steps in producing a book; it is only finished when someone reads it. In order to read it, they have to find it. “Discovery” is the toughest phase of publishing, and it gets harder every year. How does someone find my books in the sea of historical romance books—some brilliant, some excellent, […]
This week Linda Rae Sande shares information about the French in Egypt, related to her novel, A Lover in Luxor. When Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798, he brought with him (and then abandoned them to stage his coup) 150 scientists, artists, geographers, and linguists. They orchestrated the first massive looting of Egypt, sending off the […]
Rue Allyn joins us this week with her views on reincarnation and some facts inside her fiction. I believe the last time I visited I gave you a great deal of information about how ghosts and other spectral beings might be represented in fiction. I did not try to claim that spirits are real or […]
Another year; another new start. I spent yesterday taking a wide view of 2026 and 2027. My primary goal is to get my out of print books republished as the Honor at Heart series. I’m hoping to publish books one and two in March with another to follow every two months until (GULP) Mid-2027. Other […]
Virginie Marconato joins us this week with some amazing facts behind her novel, Seducing the Warrior. A scene in chapter 4 of Seducing the Warrior is directly inspired by a true story. It took place in autumn 1066, just before the conquest of England by the Normans, the kind of story that seems too good […]