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The Sandalwood Princess a Desert Isle Keeper at AAR

Reviewer Jean Wan has given my last traditional Regency, The Sandalwood Princess, another look, and honored it with a DIK review at All About Romance.

Though currently out of print, and out of stock in my private stash of OOP books, The Sandalwood Princess is in lineto be digitized this year. 



Original Avon edition


Signet double

Color your own ball dress for January 1808

I posted La Belle Assemblée's color plate for January 1808 at Two Nerdy History Girls.  This interesting ball dress, alas, appears only in black & white.  I've come across this before:  hand-colored plates for colorful fashions, and black & white for white dresses.  It's not a rule, by any means—one often sees hand-colored fashion plates of white dresses—but, especially in the earlier part of the

Happy New Year!

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Recent foreign editions

Having sent Scandal Wears Satin (2nd Dressmakers book) into production shortly before Christmas, and having spent a few days finding and gathering what remains of my brain, I'm happy to present the most recently arrived foreign editions.




 Last Night's Scandal-Italian edition


The Lion's Daughter-French edition
            

Everything I Know about Love, I Learned from Romance Novels

Sarah Wendell of Smart Bitches Trashy Books has written another funny, smart, insightful book about romance, Everything I Know about Love, I Learned from Romance Novels.

Some time ago, as she was working on the book, she asked me for my thoughts on romance novels.  I answered, at length...at great length, unsparing, as always, in my exploitation of the English language's massive vocabulary.  I

Color your own 1808 fashions

Loretta reports:

Since these two dresses came in black & white, I thought it was a good opportunity for my readers to get out their paintboxes, crayons, or colored pencils.  The color prints for October 1808 can be seen at Two Nerdy History Girls.
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No. 3.—A Ball Dress.A petticoat of fine clear white muslin, figured or plain. A peasant's jacket of white satin, with short full sleeve, in the

Recent Foreign Editions

These editions of Last Night's Scandal recently arrived.



Spanish at left; Turkish at right.

The English Witch is an Ebook, too

We're making progress with digitizing my older works.  The English Witch, my second book and a sequel to Isabella, is now available for your Kindle & Nook.  You'll notice that we're trying out a slightly different cover format, using a Regency fashion print.  I think this one conveys a bit more clearly its belonging to the traditional Regency, rather than Regency-era historical, genre.

Isabella Ebook now available

A number of readers have emailed me over the years, asking if my traditional Regencies* will ever be returned to print.  I'm not sure about the print-as-in-paper, but I do have good news about Ebooks.   We are bringing out all of my out-of-print books, for Kindle and Nook first, and eventually, we hope, in all digital formats.

During the summer, Captives of the Night made its digital debut.

Now

20th Birthday of Aventures & Passions

From 7 September through 15 November, Aventures & Passions, a romance line of French publishers J'Ai Lu, celebrate their twentieth birthday.  In honor of the occasion, we authors were asked to make short videos.

You can find mine here.

Readers in France can enter a contest for a trip to Venice.  Yes, Venice!  If you're reading this, and you're in France, I think you won't want to miss this