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Blessed Ostara to All!

And Easter and Passover and Ramadan, too. An etching by Thomas Rowlandson, English artist and caricaturist of the Georgian Era, depicting...

Happy Valentines Day...

So what happened was: because the internet is the world's library, I easily found the dates for the Season of 1817; every year, such...

Lions in England

Within the realm of possibility! They play a large part in historical English heraldry and have carried over into contemporary culture, a...

Happy 1st Birthday, A Wolf in Duke's Clothing

When worlds collide: it's also World Bath Bomb Day. Hang on, it will all make sense. (And it would have made even more sense had I...

Panster or Plotter?

A question for the ages. I have always identified as half-and-half. I tend to plot my way into the middle of a book, skip that mess and...

Another Amazing Booksweeps Giveaway!

Winning is as easy as click (or two) — I'd do this in a heartbeat if I wasn't actually in it. Historical Romance First-In-Series Giveaway...

Amazing Booksweeps Giveaway!

Winning is as easy as click (or two) — I'd do this in a heartbeat if I wasn't actually in it. Paranormal & Sci-Fi Romance BookBub...

#1, One Year On

That's a very New York Times-ish headline, but the chart topped was digital... I had been told by my Sourcebooks marketing lead that 1)...

In Other Book News

Here's an interview I did for IndieReader about That Magic Mischief! I love talking about writing; depending on where I am in the process...

Notes to Self, Pt. II

These little inside jokes (very inside, like in my head) will make total sense if you've already read A Most Unusual Duke Well, they...

Cutting My Coat...

...to suit my cloth! There's a fashion revolution going on in A Wolf in Duke's Clothing Not that I'm anti-headgear at all, and in fact, I...

Talk to the Animals!

Up with anthropomorphism! A recent post on the Animal Rescue Site claims that people who talk to their pets are smart. Being a person who...

Notes to Self

When the going gets tough, the tough make their own fun... ...via leaving themselves little notes, like the above. I had been writing...

"I do not faint."

So says the Honorable Felicity Templeton...just before she does so. Not gonna lie: I am not a big fan of Regency Era furniture. It's all...

Cool Things about Wolves

Some that I already knew, and some that are new to me. I have seen domesticated wolves in real life: they were in the family of the...

What's So Interesting About the Regency Era?

I couldn't say, definitively, but I adore it. I wish I could remember what my very first 'Regency' was. One day I had no idea they even...