Hello, Riskies!  It’s been much too long since I visited our drawing room, and once again I am on a deadline and have fallen behind (oh my!)  Let’s take a look at a re-post of a blog I did in … Continue reading →

Happy December, Risky readers!  It’s been a busy month around here, with family visits and some lovely concerts (like Elena, there are aspects of Christmas that always make me feel a bit melancholy, but music is one of my favorite … Continue reading →

The Halloween holiday has put me very behind schedule!!!  (though the stores seem to think it is already Christmas…)  The Demure Miss Manning, my latest Harlequin Historical Regency, is out NOW!  Brazilian beaches just in time for winter!  For the … Continue reading →

Or rather, happy day before Bastille Day, since July 14 is the time to celebrate the day in 1789 when an angry mob stormed the prison and released scads of prisoners–well, 7 anyway. It was officially declared a national holiday … Continue reading →

It feels like it’s been forever since I was at the Riskies!  The last several weeks have been spent moving to a new city (and looking for weird stuff in random boxes, because I packed teapots and mugs in different … Continue reading →

It’s so wonderful to be back at the Riskies again!  It feels like this is the Winter That Will Not End (illness, snow, rinse, repeat), but I am finally seeing the sunlight at the end of the tunnel.  And one … Continue reading →

February 3 was the release date for the third Kate Haywood Elizabethan Mystery, Murder in the Queen’s Garden!  I loved writing this one–summer at beautiful Nonsuch Palace, alchemy, dancing, courtly skullduggery… To celebrate, I’m taking a look at why I … Continue reading →