A writer's exploration of love in the time of Britannia
I’m over at the Ruby Slippered Sisterhood blog with my fellow ’09 Regency finalists – we’re discussing what it takes to final in the Regency category of the Golden Heart. If you’re entering, considering entering, or even just thinking about how to polish your Regency manuscript, please stop by!
Apologies for the blogging hiatus, dear readers; one of my friends passed away a month ago, just before I went on a three-week roadtrip (during which I drove 4500 miles), and it has taken me awhile to get back into my regularly scheduled life. I will be active here again any day now — but to tide you over, check out my guest post on the Ruby Slippered Sisterhood blog. I’m chatting with my fellow 2009 Golden Heart finalists about using screenwriting tricks to plot your novel — please stop by and say hi!
Don’t go away forever – this is still where it’s happening (some days, when I’m not so busy living my hip writer life that I fail to blog). But, I’m blogging today over on the Ruby Slippered Sisterhood site, where I interviewed my fellow ’09 Golden Heart finalist Cynthia Justlin on her new release HER OWN BEST ENEMY. It’s romantic suspense, not historical, but I suppose we’ll forgive it this time 
Check out the interview here – I’d love to hear your thoughts!
As usual, I’m not reading any historical romance at the moment. I’m too deep into edits for my current project, and I find that I can’t read historicals when I need to maintain a grasp on my own voice. Instead, I’ve been reading more paranormal — rather like the Regency’s fascination with Gothic novels. I do find it rather interesting that works with fantastical elements appeared relatively soon after the development of the modern novel in the mid-1700s; for all that paranormal is such a huge trend right now, it’s a good reminder that the paranormal boom/bust cycle has been going on for at least two centuries already. Take that, Edward Cullen!
Anyway, here’s what I’ve recently read and what I can’t wait to get my hands on this month:
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