I’ve finished my manuscript and am knee-deep in second draft territory, so I’m going to take an easy route today and share some of my favorite links on the Georgian and Regency eras. What Jane Saw – On 24 May 1813, Jane … Continue reading →
My talented and dear friend Ani Bolton, author of a new steampunk romance series that recently debuted with Steel and Song, tagged me to participate in a blog tour on the writing process. Here’s my entry and I’ll be tagging … Continue reading →
I found an intriguing article on the Historic Royal Palaces blog, The Making of the Modern Bra. We know that women made little home-made linen or cotton bodices to lift and define their breasts for the new-style dresses. There was … Continue reading →
I have been madly revising and revising and revising and revising and wow. The New and Improved I have a new cover for Scandal. It should be go live across vendors as I fit in the uploads with revisions… I … Continue reading →
Happy Tuesday, everyone! Like Diane, i just got hit with some last-minute copy edits (though I will not be in England soon! Waaah!). So–let’s look at some pretty. A court gown and train from the French court. These are so … Continue reading →
Today I am a bit overwhelmed. I need to finish my revisions for Book One in The Scandalous Summerfields series, Bound By Duty, and need to get ready for my trip to England on The Duke of Wellington tour. I’ll … Continue reading →
I am thisclose to finishing the manuscript I’m working on, so rather than go off and do unrelated research, I am going to give you something from the first chapter. My hero writes an anonymous fashion column and, here, he … Continue reading →
Susanna here! A week or two ago, I decided to count my to-be-read pile and discovered that between my Kindle and my bookshelves, I own over 300 unread books! Which is just crazy. I buy books faster than I read … Continue reading →
Other than your hero/heroine, that is… Today I’m talking about paper dolls of the Regency period, but not the fashion figures that originated in France and were adopted by dressmakers and their clients, and their clients’ children in the 1790s. … Continue reading →
Earlier this year when I was in Berlin for the LoveLetter Convention, I visited the Pergamon Museum, which houses several truly fantastic artefacts from classical antiquity (like the huge, huge, HUUUUUUGE Pergamon Altar), among other things. I wasn’t really all … Continue reading →
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Lord of Misrule by Gail Eastwood
The Wallflower's Mistletoe Wedding by Amanda McCabe
A Pregnant Courtesan for the Rake by Diane Gaston
How to Find a Duke in Ten Days by Grace Burrowes, Shana Galen, and Carolyn Jewel
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