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March 16, 2014
Blog tour: stop 2
Today is the second stop on my blog tour: Risky Regencies! My wonderful critique partner, Susanna Fraser, asked me a bunch of fascinating interview questions. I talk about Dorchester, how Regency political parties were like sports teams, and what Nick and Phoebe would do if they lived in 2014, among other things.
March 14, 2014
Blog tour: first stop!
Kicking off my blog tour today at bookworm2bookworm! Stop by to learn Five Fun Facts about my new release, SWEET DISORDER, and enter to win an e-book. (Among other things, you’ll learn about Regency narrative quilts, the time my grandfather ate a rotten salami during the war, and just how into Gossip Girl I was […]
March 13, 2014
She gained the love and esteem of all her neighbors
I’ve always hesitated to write a hero and heroine who can’t marry at the end. Could it be a satisfying HEA in a historical romance? And yet I’d love to write a heroine who’s separated from her husband, without having to kill the husband off. This, from Unquiet Lives, is making me rethink some assumptions: […]
March 11, 2014
A PENNY earned
I’m trying to get my website all prettied up for release week, so…I will mail a copy of IN FOR A PENNY to the first five people who can find an error, typo, or broken link on my site! THE RULES: 1. I will update this post with errors as they’re found, errors must be […]
March 10, 2014
Unveiling the blog tour prize package!
My blog tour is coming up soon! 3/14 – bookworm2bookworm 3/16 – Risky Regencies 3/19 – Heroes and Heartbreakers 3/21 – Smexybooks 3/24 – Samhain blog 3/36 – History Hoydens At each stop in the tour, I’ll be giving away a free Sweet Disorder e-book to one lucky commenter (in the format of their choice). […]
March 4, 2014
I will bring him to Paris in an iron cage!
Something I have always found hilarious is how, when Napoleon escaped from Elba, Marshal Ney declared, “I will bring him to Paris in an iron cage!” and then, as soon as he actually saw Napoleon, he basically fell on his neck and became his right-hand man again. There’s something beautiful about it. A lot of […]
March 3, 2014
New contest: copy of Sweet Disorder, plus swag pack!
Sweet Disorder, the first in my Lively St. Lemeston Regency-set small town series, is out March 18th! So, I’m giving away a copy of the e-book in the format of your choice, plus I will mail the winner a swag pack of promotional materials for the book. Nick Dymond enjoyed the rough-and-tumble military life until […]
Buttons!
I made 1″ pinback buttons for Sweet Disorder! They are so cute! I am seriously in love with them. Here are all the options (sorry, my camera phone cannot convey the crisp, bright, beautiful old-timey glory of these buttons, designed by the talented Matt Youngmark of choose-your-own-adventure stuffed-bunny-in-the-zombie-apocalypse fame): A word of explanation: Sweet Disorder […]
New cover for “A Lily Among Thorns!”
Isn’t it beautiful? And Solomon is even blond!
By your holy office you should be a peace maker
I just finished reading Unquiet Lives: Marriage and Marriage Breakdown in England, 1660–1800, by Joanne Bailey. There were more statistics than I wanted, and less details about individual court cases/newspaper ads/etc., but I learned a lot of fascinating stuff. Overall, I think what I learned is that separations were not that uncommon, and neither was […]
