As you know, the Harlequin Historical Author Holiday Giveaway is back with the Grand Prize of a Kindle Fire. (Click on the first days on the Advent calendar and enter, if you haven’t already, for the most chances to win, and return here tomorrow to enter on my day!) I’ve made no secret that I [...]
The November winner of my The Liberation of Miss Leigh website contest is….. Mary from Australia! Mary has won a copy of Mistletoe Kisses, the Christmas anthology that includes my novella, A Twelfth Night Tale — either “gently used” or the ebook version. Keep entering! There are more prizes to come in future months!
This is it. The beginning of the holiday season. For me, the season begins with Halloween and then races on until January 1. When my kids were in school, this period rushed by in one big blur and it seemed I was always trying to catch up. I’m STILL trying to catch up. This year [...]
Congratulations to my Oct 17 winners of the website contest! Cathy from Kansas and Marcy from Michigan (How’s that for alliteration?) Cathy and Marcy each win a copy of Chivalrous Captain, Rebel Mistress and an ebook download of M.J. Frederick’s Midnight Sun And because I forgot to choose a second winner on Sept 30, a [...]
Today at Risky Regencies I’m celebrating Columbus Day by talking about Regency Explorers…such as they are. There were few winners in exploration during the Regency era. Luckily I have winners to announce today! Sept 30 Winner of my website contest is…Selena of Dallastown. I’ve emailed you, Selena. Email me back at diane@dianegaston.com Last Thursday’s winner [...]
Winner! Congratulations to Pintip! You are the K.I.S.S. and Teal winner of Cathy Maxwell’s signed copy of The Seduction of Scandal. I’ll email you! Thanks to all who commented! Because you are all so wonderful, I’m donating the full $25 to Ovarian Cancer Awareness, just as if 100 of you had responded. If you like [...]
This week I attended a K.I.S.S. and Teal party. I hope by now you’ve all heard of K.I.S.S. and Teal. Avon Books and the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance have joined forces to educate more than 100,000 women about the signs and symptoms of ovarian cancer. September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness month and Avon Books has [...]
Today I’m blogging about writing retreats, Regency-style and otherwise. More about my own writing retreat on Thursday. Here is the Villa where Byron stayed in 1816, the Year Without A Summer, when he had a writers retreat with friends Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Godwin, Claire Clairemont and John William Polidori. Tomorrow is Release Day for [...]
Today at Risky Regencies I’m sharing a recap of the Beau Monde Conference, the one day conference for Regency writers. This Thursday I’ll recap the actual RWA conference. Come back on Thursday and, meanwhile, take a look at all that is new on the website.
I had no internet access for nearly two days. It was horrible! So I didn’t get to post a Risky Regencies blog until very late, and I’m later still in alerting you to it. I wrote about communication, then and now, with a focus on the communication announcing the outcome of the Battle of Waterloo. [...]
