Good morning everyone! I’m very happy to be at Writerspace today. I’ve had my website with Writerspace since 2000. Some days I think, “Has it really been that long since Cissy and I developed my first website?” and other days I think, “Hasn’t it been longer than nine years that I’ve had a website?” But one thing that is a constant is the good job that Cissy and all her staff do for those of us who leave our domains in their capable hands. Thank you for having me here today.

You know, one of the things I love about being a Regency author is that I get to write about titled gentlemen. There is just something extremely appealing and very sexy to me about a hero born to power, and privilege, but he never misuses either. When I started my new trilogy The Rogues’ Dynasty, I wanted all my heroes to be titled and related. That presented a problem at first. They couldn’t be brothers because titles are only handed down to the first born son. There are no leftovers for subsequent sons.

I finally decided that the best way to get around that issue was by making the heroes of the three books cousins rather than brothers or friends. It was easy enough to do that by creating their grandmother, a grand lady who was known far and wide because she managed to marry all three of her daughters to titled gentlemen. And all of her daughters gave her a grandson in the same year. Suddenly I had a duke, a marquis, and an earl!

I always want my heroes to be tall and powerful-looking with wide shoulders and lean hips. I like for their neckcloths to look as if they have been hastily tied making them appear to be the devilish rogues the gossipmongers claim they are. My heroes must be strong and commanding but never afraid to show their sensitive side.

The first book of my Rogues’ Dynasty trilogy is A Duke To Die for which came out in April 2009 and is still available. In A Duke To Die For,the hero’s life was chaotic and undisciplined, so I gave him a beautiful and quite charming heroine who was timely and organized to get under his skin and stay there. For fun I had her believe she was cursed, and for intrigue I had him be in danger because of it.

The middle book, A Marquis To Marry is an October release and is currently on sale wherever books are sold. In A Marquis To Marry, the hero is a fun-loving rogue and very happily a bachelor, so I had to give him a beautiful, fascinating woman who had the power, charm, and all it took to make him want to settle down to just one woman. For enjoyment, I had him in possession of a priceless necklace of pearls that belonged to her family, and then for intrigue I had them stolen.

An Earl to Enchant will be published in April 2010. In An Earl To Enchant, the hero is a planner who plays by the rules and has no idea what to do with an enchanting heroine who ignores convention and steals his heart with her impulsive ways. For merriment, I had the heroine pursuing the hero, and for intrigue I had a killer pursuing her.

But let me show you what I mean about a titled gentleman by giving you a short excerpt of what my heroine in A Marquis To Marry thinks about the hero when she first meets him.

Susannah Brookefield, the Dowager Duchess of Blooming had met her match, and he was standing before her, his nose to hers, in all his handsomeness. He was no ordinary man. Everything about him spoke of power, privilege and wealth. The Marquis of Raceworth was just as she had imagined him, tall, self-confident, pleasing to look at, and terribly spoiled.

Not that she could really hold that against him. Titled men were used to getting their way. Her gaze slowly rose past his clean-shaven chin to lips that were so masculine and so very close to her own that her heartbeat fluttered. She held her breath for a moment before looking into the most intriguing brownish-green eyes she had ever seen.

Thick light-brown hair was cropped short over his ears but fell longer at his nape. His sky-blue waistcoat with its gold-colored buttons fit seamlessly over a flat stomach and enhanced his slim hips. And even with his fancy-tied neckcloth and impeccably tailored, fine wool coat stretched perfectly over his broad shoulders and chest, he somehow managed to look casually sophisticated.

I hope you enjoyed this brief look at titled gentlemen and that you’ll check out the Rogues’ Dynasty trilogy and read about my titled heroes!

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