Psychic Moments & THE MADNESS OF LORD WESTFALL
by Mia Marlowe People often ask why I decided to write a Regency-set series based on characters with psychic abilities. It seems to fly in the face of the delicate, comedy-of-manners style of story readers expect from a Regency romance. After all, a hero like Lord Westfall, who’s spent time in Bedlam, is not exactly… Read More
Readers Make Writing Romance Awesome…
by Bronwen Evans Waving from a very cold and wet New Zealand. It’s winter here and we have had what we call an unusual cold snap with loads of snow in the South Island. Definitely the kind of weather to stay tucked up inside writing! Or reading! Last week I braved the elements to be… Read More
Regency Beliebers?
By Jenny Holiday Are you a Belieber? Perhaps your tween daughter is? (If you have no idea what I’m talking about, don’t fret: you’re totally normal. Beliebers are obsessive fans of Justin Bieber.) I myself am not a Belieber, but I have fallen under the spell of one or two massive celebrity crushes in my… Read More
Breaking the Rules
by A.S. Fenichel I blame Jane Austen for making the early 1800s so romantic to me. I love the period. I love the rules and I hate the rules. No touching or even being alone together. I love this because when they finally do touch, even if it’s incidental, it’s earth-shattering. Then there is the… Read More
A ROGUISH DELIGHT
The Harrow Band. That was my name for my group of Regency guys when I first wrote about them back in 1976. I still have the handwritten original. Later I changed their name to The Company of Rogues, which I’m sure you’ll agree was an improvement. I completed the book in 1977, but it wasn’t… Read More