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Virtual Bookstore Romance Day Coming Soon

This Saturday, 15 August, I’ll be joining romance authors Caroline Linden, Evie Dunmore, Nisha Sharma, and Robin Covington for the second annual Bookstore Romance Day.

At last year’s event, we authors got up close and personal with the readers who attended. This year, we won’t be...

The Great Equestrienne Louisa Woolford

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Miss Wonderful eBook for $0.99

I came back to writing, after a hiatus of about four years, to begin the Carsington Brothers series. What started out as a trilogy about three unmarried brothers turned into a five-book series that included a married brother and the further adventures of his stepdaughter.

Miss Won...

Lord of Scoundrels eBook for $2.99

I love being able to offer my readers a bargain.

Amazon is offering Lord of Scoundrels as one of its Summer Reading Week Kindle Big Deal books. What’s the Big Deal? From 13 through 19 July, the eBook is only $2.99.

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About Ten Things I Hate About the Duke

You’ll easily imagine my joy in reporting that Ten Things I Hate About the Duke has entered the (rather lengthy) production process, aimed at December 2020 release.

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Scandal Wears Satin Has an Audio Problem

I recently learned from a reader that it is currently impossible to download a legitimate Scandal Wears Scandal audiobook.

Let me just step aside for a minute and swear violently.

OK. I’m better now. Somewhat better.

As happened last year with two other of my Dressmakers books, we have a case of an expired sublicense. Thanks to the reader who called my attention to the problem, I’ve alerted my publisher, who’s proceeding forthwith to reissue the audiobook. Unfortunately, in cases like these ...

The Truth About the 2nd Duke

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Proserpine 1882. this is one of several versions of the painting Rossetti painted. You can read more about it here.

I’ve been hearing from readers asking where they can find Book # 2 of the Difficult Dukes series.

Unfortunately, it can’t be found yet, because I’m still working on it. Glancing over some of the blog posts here, you’ll have some idea why. The Duke of Ashmont’s story has proved to be an unusually difficult one, for reasons I’m unable to ascertain. This...

The Singing Bird Pistols

Readers familiar with my short story, “Lord Lovedon’s Duel,” (recently reissued in the Royal Bridesmaids anthology and one of the two stories in the Royally Ever After duet) will remember the Singing Bird Pistols. In case anybody was wondering, yes, they’re real.

Some years ago, reader Ammie sent me a link she believed a Nerdy History Girl like me would enjoy. I was wowed, and the pistols became part of the inspiration for the novella.

This link will take you to the video I watched over and...

Happy Valentine's Day

Valentine card, “Yours For Ever,” by Esther Howland (Worcester, Massachusetts, ca. 1860-1880). Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts.

Valentine’s Day greeting cards did exist before Esther Howland came into the picture, and it was an important holiday in England in the time of my stories. In fact, according to this article, an English Valentine Ms. Howland received was the impetus for what soon became a highly successful business. I love women’s success...

Royal Bridesmaids has been reissued

When Prince William and Kate Middleton got hitched a few years ago, Avon Books invited three historical romance authors—Stephanie Laurens, Gaelen Foley, and me—to contribute to some royal wedding-related anthologies. The first of these was, fittingly, Royal Weddings, which included “The Jilting of Lord Northwick,” my first effort, in many years, to write a short story. I set the story on the day before Queen Victoria’s marriage to Prince Albert. That tale must have worked out all right...