Love is worth the risk
About the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, John Adams famously said, “It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.” I don’t know abut the rest of my American friends, […]
After a week away visiting Greg’s large extended family and driving nine hours to get home, I awoke this morning someone fatigued and looked at my to-do list. Oh my. Do you have any idea what ten days worth of repeating daily and weekly tasks looks like? In addition this week and last I have […]
Highlighting Historical Romance: Jude Knight Jude’s next release features a hero who is a thief taker. He prefers the term enquiry agent. Thief takers, he says, are ‘so unpleasant’. Here are some thoughts about law enforcement in Regency England. Crime was a personal affair Before 1829, our modern idea of a police force, and of […]
Highlighting Historical Romance: Madeline Martin Like many stories, her new book began with a “What if…” She tells us: First there was learning about the Salem Witch Trials in middle school; then, The Craft came out in high school. Throw in over a decade living in Germany as a girl and I think you’ll understand […]
Highlighting Historical Romance: Gloria Gay Notes from the heroine, Belinda Presleigh: I fell in love when I was thirteen. It was one warm summer afternoon. I was well hidden with my poetry book in a thicket of bushes and had almost dozed off. I was trespassing in land that adjoined my father’s as I often […]
Starting a new story feels like priming a pump that just doesn’t want to flow. I pour in a little ‘water’ in the form of characters and some vague idea of the inciting incident or opening disturbance and then pump and pump, but the words drip out one by one and I’m left waiting for […]
Highlighting Historical Romance: Jude Knight joins us to talk about her work. I love research. I even love research when I have a perfectly delightful plot that falls apart when research proves it couldn’t have happened. Working out what might be historically probable instead, or at least plausible, has allowed me to drop down many […]
Caroline Warfield will be the featured author tonight for Coffeetime Romance Show It Off Saturday. Coffeetime is an important reviewing service and magazine for romance fans, and I’m pleased to be in the spotlight. Stop by, leave a comment, win a prize. Check out their other authors throughout the day.
In which Judith interviews her hero Bayard Pytchley JL: Most romance heroes are aristocratic. You’re not. Why should we care to read about you? BP: (laughs a little self-consciously) I don’t know why my author chose to write about me. I certainly don’t think of myself as a hero. However, I’m not so far from […]
The award winning author shares her love of Scotland and its history with us today. In a land of mountains, lochs and mists, there once lived a rough warrior king and his fair-haired queen, who was so devout she had once thought to be a nun. But then that was before she sought refuge in […]