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March 3, 2016
I Finished a Book!!!
At last…I have finished the rough draft for ‘Once Upon a Wager‘. I had the epilogue written over a year ago so I knew the end-ending, but unfolding the story to the last chapter (figuring out what entailed the final chapter) has involved much head banging on my keyboard. It needs to be edited, but hopefully I’ll soon be […]
January 4, 2016
History Note: Two 18th century Dutch Female Authors
I recently started reading a Dutch newspaper on line (in English). The other day I read an article about how leading Dutch authors are rarely translated into other languages. It made me wonder what sorts of books the Dutch write and read. Why are most of these stories considered unsuitable for translation? What sort of stories […]
September 10, 2015
Phillis Wheatley…The first published African-American Woman
I love history (I don’t think you can write historical romances if you don’t)! I particularly love discovering and reading about interesting people who defied the accepted norms of their time and became more. One of the things I find fascinating is how every age has it’s own version of the previous eras of history. We […]
May 5, 2015
Who Needs Authentically Styled Regency Shoes? Who Doesn’t?
For all of you Regency shoe lovers…I came across a website today where they sell Georgian authentically styled shoes. I now must get rich because I NEED to have pairs of ALL of them. Heavy sigh! These (pictured) nankeen Regency ankle boots are high high high on the list. They also come in black and another […]
May 1, 2015
To Celebrate May: A Coupon for a Free Copy of Dancing the Maypole…
May is here! To celebrate I’m giving away a Smashword coupon for a free e-copy of my Regency romance, Dancing the Maypole. When you reach the checkout use the coupon code QU37B to download a free e-book copy (they offer numerous formats). The coupon will expire May 31st 2015. Taller than most men, Isabel […]
February 24, 2015
Book Review: Torn Trousers…
This last year was mostly spent in a miasma of story consumption. I read books like a story-starved creature. The part of my brain that produces stories had malfunctioned. Strangely, It wasn’t writers’ block. I felt nothing as if someone had disconnected the story part of my brain. Then I started meeting up once a week with my friend Gwynn […]
November 20, 2014
Alive and Writing…
Most of the last year feels like a long strange blur spent reading other people’s stories. I have read A LOT of books in all sorts of genres. With my thyroid careening back and forth between under and over active I’ve been living in a creative wasteland. For most of the last six months I […]
August 9, 2014
Fiction Addiction…Three More Free Stories I’ve Recently Enjoyed
The last few weeks I’ve been consuming other people’s stories like a literary black hole, but it’s priming my writer (I’ve actually cracked open several stories and tentatively started working on them). Here are three more great free stories (all romances in various genres). The links take you to the books on Barnes and Noble, […]
July 19, 2014
Can a Romance Novel Change Your Life…?
Some books we consume as light reading end up catalysts for change in our lives. Laura Florand’s romance novels have fallen into this category for me (I recommended her free story The Chocolate Rose in my last post). In her chocolate series her heroes are French chefs (the stories set in France). I’ve loved all her […]
July 12, 2014
Fiction Addiction – Three Free Books I’ve Recently Enjoyed…
The last few months I’ve been gorging on other people’s stories. Perhaps a part of me has been story-starved. Normally when I’m writing I crave non-fiction, but at the moment I crave fiction (like a fiction-addiction!). Perhaps I needed the escape so as to not think about not being able to write because my brain is […]
