Last weekend I attended one of the highlights of my year, the Washington Romance Writers Spring Retreat. This year we were in a new location, a Best Western in Westminster, MD, near McDaniel College. For many years the Retreat took place at Hilltop House in Harpers Ferry, but the hotel closed about five years ago [...]
Before I rant, let me rave….about my new book cover for A Not So Respectable Gentleman?! It is all over my website, but I can’t resist showing it off one more time. Isn’t it a great romance cover? Which makes me even more peeved. I get this great new romance cover and here comes yet [...]
The book is turned in. On Time. Thanks to a marathon writing spree in which I set almost everything aside to Get The Work Done. While writing, I spurred myself on with fleeting fantasies about all the ways I would reward myself when the book was finished. You can read about that here. What I’ve [...]
This is my last day to write the Marquess and Governess story, so guess what I’m doing? Stay tuned. Next week I’ll be back to my regularly scheduled programming, and next week is also Valentine’s Day, the last day of my contest. Hurry and enter, before a new contest begins. See you next week – [...]
I am busy writing my Marquess and Governess story, due next week, and my brain is consumed with the story. I thought you might be curious about what research I’ve done for this story. Most of it has been done as I’m going along. Here are some of the things I’ve researched so far (In [...]
On Tuesday, my friend and fellow Risky Regencies blogger, Amanda McCabe/Laurel McKee talked about the romantic fantasy about reforming the rake, a theme we repeat over and over in our romance novels. This got me thinking about romance heroes, one of my favorite topics. In 2006, I blogged about Romance Heroes and I thought I’d [...]
I have some thoughts about the first episode of Downton Abbey, Season 2, at Risky Regencies today. What makes me want to keep watching. Some insights about character and story. What did you think of the beginning of Season 2? See you back here on Thursday!
A couple of weeks ago on one of my loops my friend Cecelia Dowdy mentioned this blog. The blog is one of those supposedly positive articles about romance writing which winds up to be insulting anyway. “You only have to read one. They are all the same.” Oh, yeah???? “These books are admittedly too simply [...]
November is NaNoWriMo…National Novel Writing Month…where writers everywhere gather, virtually and otherwise, to spur each other on to write a novel–or 50,000 words–in a month. I’ve known about NaNoWriMo for a few years, but never signed on before. My problem? Writing on demand. As soon as you tell me I must write something, I find [...]
This is the first week my new Undone has been released. In celebration of that fact, I’m giving away one copy of Regency Improprieties. Comment for a chance to win. I’ll announce the winner here on Monday. The Liberation of Miss Finch tells the story of what happened to Claude Mableau, the boy my Three [...]
