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December 8, 2010
FAQ for Victoria Janssen
I'm a guest today at Chicks N' Scratching, explaining "Why Pirates?"
And below if the beginning of what will become my website FAQ, based on an interview I did at Erotica For All. If you have questions I should include, please submit them in the comments! Thanks!
Note: I do not look like Sophia Loren.
What erotic authors do you enjoy reading?
Emma Holly was my first favorite. I still love her books; I especially enjoy her sense of fun, and the way she mingles science fiction and fantasy in...
December 7, 2010
Hints of Mystery
This post, in a shorter form, was originally written for K.S. Manning's blog.
One of the things I experimented with while writing The Duke and the Pirate Queen was a mystery plot. Throughout the story, I interspersed questions that weren't immediately answered. For example, the heroine, Imena, overhears fragments of what might be a plot against the Duke Maxime. Throughout the novel, as Imena is trying to protect him against that threat, another character, Sylvie, is elsewhere, trying to...
December 6, 2010
Interviewed by Kate Pearce – Guest Post
I'm being interviewed a little later today at Kate Pearce's blog. I'll update with the direct link once I have it.
December 5, 2010
Siegfried Sassoon, "Song-Books of the War"
Song-Books of the War
In fifty years, when peace outshines
Remembrance of the battle lines,
Adventurous lads will sigh and cast
Proud looks upon the plundered past.
On summer morn or winter's night,
Their hearts will kindle for the fight,
Reading a snatch of soldier-song,
Savage and jaunty, fierce and strong;
And through the angry marching rhymes
Of blind regret and haggard mirth,
They'll envy us the dazzling times
When sacrifice absolved our earth.
Some ancient man with silver locks
Will...
December 4, 2010
Siegfried Sassoon, "Trench Duty"
Trench Duty
Shaken from sleep, and numbed and scarce awake,
Out in the trench with three hours' watch to take,
I blunder through the splashing mirk; and then
Hear the gruff muttering voices of the men
Crouching in cabins candle-chinked with light.
Hark! There's the big bombardment on our right
Rumbling and bumping; and the dark's a glare
Of flickering horror in the sectors where
We raid the Boche; men waiting, stiff and chilled,
Or crawling on their bellies through the wire.
'What? Stretcher-bearers...
December 3, 2010
Launch Party! Dukes & Pirates all welcome!
Shamefully Biased Review of The Duke & The Pirate Queen
Today, I have a guest post at the Novelists, Inc. Blog: Making Time.
And now for our primary feature:
A Completely, Shamefully Biased Review of The Duke & The Pirate Queen…by My Good Friend To Whom I Give Free Childcare, Like, All the Time (To Give You Some Idea of the Magnitude of This Gift and Thus Her Affection For Me, We Refer to Her Adorable Tots as The Monkeys)
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The Duke and the Pirate Queen, the third novel by Victoria Janssen, from Harlequin Spice!
I am so excited about this book.
The c...
December 2, 2010
Interview: Victoria Janssen
Interview: Victoria Janssen
I'm a guest today at Risky Regencies, talking about "Research Mashups."
As for this blog, remember how, a while back, I mentioned that a journalist friend was helping me with promotion? On the theory that she knows me really well and is willing to tell everyone how great I am, to cancel out my authorly shyness?
Well, she interviewed me. Below is the result.
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Captain Leung, the coolly powerful privateer, silk-clad and barefoot. Maxime, the charismatic, magnificently endowed ruler of a dukedom by ...
