Updates

Her Counterfeit Husband is coming along on schedule!

I’ll be going through it this weekend and sending it back to her for another look.  In the meantime, I also have a proofreader looking it over.  Then I’ll be correcting whatever they find before handing it off to another proofreader.   I expect the book to be published around the end of August to early September. 

Bound by Honor, Bound by Love is still in the second draft stage. 

I’m now at the end of chapter 11 (out of 17 chapters).   I expect to be done with the second draft some time next week, and then it’ll be going to the editor and proofreaders again.  I expect it to be published around the first or second week of September. 

Extra Scenes of Already Published Books

What I’d like to try out is a series of very short stories that are scenes that never made it into my books.  I was telling Mary in a comment that I came across an idea book of scenes that I’d like to write on my blog.  These would be 500 to 1000 word scenes like Tom telling Dave to get himself a wife (which would take place right before Eye of the Beholder) and a scene where Mary gives birth to Isaac.  I know I can come up with other scenes involving other characters from other books, but those were the two I had written down.  Oh, and I had an idea for the day Eliza and John found Brian (this would take place after Loving Eliza ended).  I think these could be a lot of fun scenes similar to deleted scenes you see on DVDs.    I plan to write the scenes from time to time, like I do with character interviews and posting excerpts from works in progress.  So this will be an ongoing thing.

New Idea and Cover Idea for Another Book

While I was reading Bound by Honor, Bound by Love, I got an idea for Mister Robinson who is Lord Clement (Perry)’s mischievous ward in The Earl’s Inconvenient Wife.  I started A Most Unsuitable Husband (am 7000 words in right now but not working on at the moment), and in this book, I introduce Lord Edon’s partner in crime (of sorts).  This partner in crime is not Lord Edon’s love interest.  She’s a writer, and she writes under a male pen name for the Tittletattle.  In exchange for reporting scandals on Lord Edon’s behalf, he takes her stories to a publisher.  So no one knows her secret, except for him.

Anyway, her sister happens to stumble upon a part of her book, and in fear of exposing her secret, she says a gentleman wrote it.  The sister, eager to see her married then spreads it around that she has a suitor.  So one lie tumbles into another (after all, she can’t risk her family knowing the truth), and before she knows it, everyone wants to meet this gentleman.  In comes Mister Robinson who (somehow) learns of the ordeal (probably from Lord Edon who is trying to help her out), and Mister Robinson (the happy mischievous sort he is) happily plays along as the doting suitor. 

I don’t have any more than that at the moment, and I can’t remember the heroine’s name (my husband has the computer with A Most Unsuitable Husband on it).  However, I do have a title, and I decided to morph the contemporary story I decided not to write and call the book The Write Husband because she pretty much writes him into existence with her lies.

I realized the Regencies I’ve been doing have either “husband” or “wife” in the title, so I decided to keep the trend going.  I’m also trying to keep the covers similar enough so that anyone browsing my books can tell right away it’s a Regency.  Without further ado, here’s what I came up with for the cover:

I decided to use the red background that I had thought about using for The Reluctant Wife.  I don’t have a plot for The Reluctant Wife yet, and I might change the title at a later date.  But I think the cover for The Write Husband works, so I expect it to stick around.  *fingers crossed*