Last year I showed you my newly planted garden in the front of my house. I planted several herbs, a lilac bush, a butterfly bush and various other plants and flowers. It did well and some of the herbs even survived the winter. They couldn’t survive my dh, though. Early this spring weeds encroached on [...]
Just what we all need! Another time waster…. I’ll bet we all have one–a website that we come back to time and time again when we are bored, or sleepless, or plotting a new novel. Maybe for you it is Facebook or Twitter. Or Pinterest (very cute baby and puppy video on it last night). [...]
Last week I despaired when yet another article insulting the Romance industry appeared in New York Magazine. This week I am delighted to offer two antidotes, one that is not 100 percent perfect, but another that comes very very close. The occasion for these articles is the publication of Nora Roberts‘ 200th book, a Romantic [...]
I’m blogging about Culloden at Risky Regencies. Today is the anniversary of the battle that ended the Jacobite Rebellion. I wonder what people in the Regency thought of the battle that took place 60 years before? Come back Thursday. I’m talking about Lord Byron! Enter my contest!
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men–Edmund Burke Guess what I’m doing today. Yep. Taxes. Actually I’m preparing for the accountant. I never do my taxes anymore because they’ve gotten a bit more confusing and I have an anxiety attack if I try [...]
In 2005 I took a themed tour to England focusing on The Great North Road, stopping at coaching inns, country houses, and Nottingham, York, and Edinburgh. There were less than 30 people on the tour, which was led by Patty Suchy of Novel Explorations. Patty has since become a friend (see one of our escapades [...]
I had a lovely time at Inn Boonsboro. The Inn is such a pretty place. Each bedroom is decorated according to a literary theme and dedicated to two literary lovers. Check out the website and take a tour of each room. One of my favorite parts of the Inn’s rooms are the bathrooms. This year [...]
I’m over at Risky Regencies blogging about a PBS documentary I watched last night about Costume Dramas. Can you guess which British costume dramas were considered ground-breaking? Thursday I’ll tell you about my writers weekend at Inn Boonsboro!
Today I am enroute to Boonsboro, Maryland, to Inn Boonsboro, the inn Nora Roberts built. We’re filling the inn with fellow friends from Washington Romance Writers for a writing weekend. Last year was my first time attending this writers weekend and I loved the setting and the camaraderie. This year I’m going a day early [...]
Coaching Inns were the motels of the Regency period. They were also the gas stations, the gas being horses. At this moment, I am writing a Coaching Inn scene, so I thought I’d share what an Inn of the period would look like. In Southwark, London, there remains a Coaching Inn existing since the 1500s. [...]
