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GYPSY LEGACY: THE MARQUIS - Available in Print!

October 1848
Offices of Messrs. Stapleton and Poole, Solicitors
Carlisle

“Are you certain, my lord?” Harold Stapleton paused to dip his quill in the inkwell before continuing to write on the foolscap before him.

“I don’t see that there is any choice,” Baron Ashton Milden replied. “My father tied up that piece of property over thirty years ago and we are still waiting for it’s fate to be decided.”

The Duke is OUT!

Book 2 in the Gypsy Legacy Series

He doesn’t need a wife. She doesn’t want a husband. Destiny’s not listening.

As children, Brand Waring, heir to the Duke of Warringham, and his brother were kidnapped and sold to a plantation in the West Indies. Now Brand is back to wreak vengeance on those responsible for his brother’s subsequent death. The last thing he wants, or needs, is to be distracted by an instant attraction to a flighty Society belle.

You Can’t Go Home. . .If It’s Not There

I went to San Francisco for the RWA Conference. It was a great conference, in a nice hotel with superb accommodations, and, for once, I couldn’t even complain about the weather. I suppose if I wanted something to complain about, it would be the changes.

Summertime. . .and the writin' is easy

I suppose it’s a nice thought. Even if it’s a little unrealistic. So, why is that?

If you have school-aged children, the obvious answer is that they are home and need more of YOUR attention. Children that are still young enough to need entertaining, supervision and direction eat up your days – which are longer, too. So, by the time they are finally in bed, you’re looking at the clock and wondering where (your writing) time went.

The Language of (Historical) Love

I write historicals. They are my first, last, and enduring love when it comes to romance. I can stray into many different genres when it comes to reading, but when I sit down to write, I’m transported into the past. As a writer of Regencies and Victorians usually set in England, understanding the time period, the mores, and the educational and social requirements is essential.

One of the educational requirements of members of the nobility in the 19th century was the ability to speak another language, usually French. When was the last time you read a romance set in the 19th century with a hero/heroine of the upper classes that the author made a point of telling you they spoke no language other than English? So, what’s an author to do while trying to keep one step ahead of her characters?