[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUknJSb_BWE[/youtube] I adore the Regency period, or at least my very clean, very wealthy version of it. In my books, all the men are rich and handsome, and all the women are beautiful and fiery. They wear silk gowns and dance at elaborate balls, often with the Pricne Regent in attendance. In my novels, there are no …
Biltmore Christmas Fun Actually this post is less about Regency England and more about the Gilded Age in the United States. Long before income tax came into being, the American elite built castles of their own, many in Newport, but one particularly gorgeous one in Asheville. I am going to look at the …
I had the distinct pleasure of downloading Grace Burrowes’ GARETH: LORD OF RAKES onto my e reader while I was sick in bed. Let’s just say that Gareth made my cough livable. I forgot my hacking and my general malaise and enjoyed watching him seduce and be seduced by Felicity, his lady love. This book …
Once again you may be asking yourself, where have I been for an age? Mostly, I have been working at the day job, which has gone from part time to full time. This has cut back on my online time, as has the fact that I am now living in the NC mountains, and I …
I had a ball talking with Julianne Douglas on Writing the Renaissance about romance, history, and of course, Shakespeare. Come by and check it out…
I know I’ve mentioned this blog before, but in my ramblings about the web, I came back to it once more, as a compass comes to true north. This week on that fabulous blog there is speculation that Jane Austen was one of the best social game theorists of all. Follow this link Jane Austen’s …