News and Events:
At last, the first in my Regency mystery series, Lady Rosamund and the Poison Pen, is out!! Since I started writing this story over five years ago, it's a relief to have it published at last. I'm working on the second book in the series now.
I just finished a novella for another Christmas anthology (featuring secondary characters which originally appeared in The Smuggler's Escape). The anthology will release in the fall.
I'm now adding the finishing touches to a new Regency romance with more than a touch of magic. At the moment the title is Lord Bellweather's Lady. It's loosely connected with another magical Regency, Lady of the Flames. I hope to release it later this year.
The 13-author anthology, Winter Wishes, is not longer available, but my story, A Kiss Upon the Wind, is now available on its own. (Buy links are on both the home page and the book page.) Why is Lady Isolde’s father prepared to pay £10,000 to marry her off for the third time? Find the answer to this and other intriguing questions in A Kiss Upon the Wind!
My standalone Regency romance, The Smuggler's Escape, is about a lady smuggler in the southeast of England. It's a revised version of a book I wrote years ago. After writing several books with love scenes in them, I got tired of writing those scenes -- sort of a 'been there, written that', like having a car chase in every book. But anyway, when I wrote the scenes in the smuggler book, I was in my love scenes heyday, so to speak, and I'm enjoying reading what I wrote then and hope you will too. There's also lots of adventure and strife -- fun to write and hopefully suspenseful to read.
My short story, "The Last Page", was included in the anthology Crime Travel, which was released December 8th, Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day. (I'm likely to do that any day, but it's cool that there's an actual day assigned to it.) The stories are all about crime and time travel -- a fun combo, don't you think? It certainly inspired me to write one. :)
My two novellas, The Reluctant Seductress and Love at First Dance, which were previously published in separate anthologies, are now available together as Yuletide Nights. Actually, there are four novellas in this particular story universe. The other two were published years ago -- Under a Christmas Spell and Under a New Year's Enchantment. All four books have characters who are my version of incubus or succubus -- not demons, but people who have an uncanny talent for sending erotic dreams. During the Napoleonic Wars, they were harnessed as spies to use this talent, whether they wanted to or not. Now the war is over and they are trying to adjust to ordinary life again. Except that they're not ordinary at all...
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HEART OF CONSTANTINE was the WINNER of the HOLT Medallion Contest, Paranormal Category, in 2014. This award, given by Virginia Romance Writers, is a huge honor. I was thrilled then, still am, and always will be. (That’s why this announcement never goes away.)
I just finished a novella for another Christmas anthology (featuring secondary characters which originally appeared in The Smuggler's Escape). The anthology will release in the fall.
I'm now adding the finishing touches to a new Regency romance with more than a touch of magic. At the moment the title is Lord Bellweather's Lady. It's loosely connected with another magical Regency, Lady of the Flames. I hope to release it later this year.
The 13-author anthology, Winter Wishes, is not longer available, but my story, A Kiss Upon the Wind, is now available on its own. (Buy links are on both the home page and the book page.) Why is Lady Isolde’s father prepared to pay £10,000 to marry her off for the third time? Find the answer to this and other intriguing questions in A Kiss Upon the Wind!
My standalone Regency romance, The Smuggler's Escape, is about a lady smuggler in the southeast of England. It's a revised version of a book I wrote years ago. After writing several books with love scenes in them, I got tired of writing those scenes -- sort of a 'been there, written that', like having a car chase in every book. But anyway, when I wrote the scenes in the smuggler book, I was in my love scenes heyday, so to speak, and I'm enjoying reading what I wrote then and hope you will too. There's also lots of adventure and strife -- fun to write and hopefully suspenseful to read.
My short story, "The Last Page", was included in the anthology Crime Travel, which was released December 8th, Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day. (I'm likely to do that any day, but it's cool that there's an actual day assigned to it.) The stories are all about crime and time travel -- a fun combo, don't you think? It certainly inspired me to write one. :)
My two novellas, The Reluctant Seductress and Love at First Dance, which were previously published in separate anthologies, are now available together as Yuletide Nights. Actually, there are four novellas in this particular story universe. The other two were published years ago -- Under a Christmas Spell and Under a New Year's Enchantment. All four books have characters who are my version of incubus or succubus -- not demons, but people who have an uncanny talent for sending erotic dreams. During the Napoleonic Wars, they were harnessed as spies to use this talent, whether they wanted to or not. Now the war is over and they are trying to adjust to ordinary life again. Except that they're not ordinary at all...
~ * ~
HEART OF CONSTANTINE was the WINNER of the HOLT Medallion Contest, Paranormal Category, in 2014. This award, given by Virginia Romance Writers, is a huge honor. I was thrilled then, still am, and always will be. (That’s why this announcement never goes away.)
Crazy Earl looking deceptively sweet while asleep.
