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Happy Thanksgiving

Puck Thanksgiving 1905

It's a day of big gratitude for me; my family, my friends, my readers, my amazing (and patient) publishing team. And let's not forget the food and all the good cooks I lucked out in being related to.

May you all have lots of good things to be grateful for, and a happy and delicious Thanksgiving!

Illustration: Puck Thanksgiving 1905, Courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.

Vixen in Velvet Reaches the Finish Line

Loretta reports:

Vixen in Velvet is done! It flew away on electronic wings to my editor yesterday. This is the end of Phase One. It will return to me for tuning and tweaking (aka Revisions) but we can celebrate again when that's done.

Now I have to go to my fainting couch and call for lavender water.

Photo: "Model posed in ornate costumes: in black pressed pleats, with top hat; standing tip-toe on champagne bottle," c1904. Courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington...

All About Romance Readers Vote Lord of Scoundrels #1

Every three years All About Romance has conducted a Top 100 Romances Poll. And in every poll since 2000, AAR readers have given Lord of Scoundrels the top spot.

I truly did not expect this to happen again—well, I never expect it, because the competition comprises some true masterpieces of romance. It includes Georgette Heyer, by the way, and Jane Austen, along with some of the biggest names in romance and my own all-time favorites.

But yes, once more Dain & Jessica argued their way to the top...

EBooks Formatting Errors Chapter 365

As I’ve whined elsewhere on this site, Vixen in Velvet --aka Leonie's book--is still in progress. Can I explain why it’s taken two years instead of one and had to be rewritten seven hundred times? Maybe I could, but this would take a very long time and a great many words better used in completing the book rather than explaining its tortoise pace to the finish line.

And this eternity of writing one book also explains why I’m still behindhand in correcting errors in eBooks.

However, as reported...

Where are the U.K. eBooks?

Ball Dress, Ackermann's Repository

From time to time readers contact me, asking why they can't obtain my more recent titles as eBooks in the U.K. and Australia. If I tried to explain all the rights and contracts rigmarole, this post would go on for miles and everybody would fall asleep, and then I would have a cure for insomnia and become a very rich woman. It sounds like a good retirement plan, but I don't have the time. I have books to write.

I think all anybody needs or wants to know is th...

Recent arrivals from Spain and the Czech Republic

It's still hard for me to believe that my books are being read in other countries. But every month or so, proof arrives. Here are the two latest.

Last Night's Scandal

Scandal Wears Satin

Knaves' Wager is back in print

A number of readers have written to let me know they vastly prefer an actual printed book in their hands—and ask wistfully whether my out-of-print books will ever be in print again.

Loyal readers, I’m delighted to report that the what seemed to be hopeless isn’t, and the process has begun. Knaves’ Wager, the fifth of my traditional Regencies, is now available in print.

This is a print-on-demand paperback.

What does this mean? In a nutshell (if you don’t feel like reading the Wikipedia entry link...

The Mad Earl's Bride

The Mad Earl's Bride

My novella, The Mad Earl's Bride, is set between the time of Lord of Scoundrels and The Last Hellion. Like those two books, it's stayed in print for lo these many years. However, it has always been part of an anthology, —first, Three Weddings and a Kiss, then Three Times a Bride.

But earlier this summer, Avon brought...

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This just in from Croatia

I don't always get the books as soon as they're published abroad, but they turn up eventually, usually. Last week's mail brought me the Croation edition of The Last Hellion. Editions actually, because it came out both in hardcover and paperback in 2012.

Here it is in glorious red.

This blog is moving

From The English Spy

As most of you are aware by now, I've got a fresh new look for my website.  Among other excellent features, it now contains my blog.  From now on, you can read my occasional reports, musings, and miscellaneous other stuff without having to do any tiresome clicking to an entirely different place.

What this means is that this blog, at Blogger, is going into Sleep Mode.