“Miss Harlow’s Marriage In High Life” is the title of the heroine’s newspaper column in A Groom Of One’s Own. I stole the title of the column from one in a 1842 edition of The Illustrated London Times.
In the 1820’s, the marriage columns were a lot shorter and less detailed, but still appeared in every [...]
Don’t tell my other characters this, but Sophie Harlow might be my favorite heroine that I’ve written. She is a sassy girl.
You wouldn’t think that I had any fondness for her, considering the awful things I subject her to. She gets jilted on her wedding day on the first page of the book. And then [...]
Confession: I’m bored with rakes. Shocking, I know. After reading one too many stories about a breathtakingly handsome, promiscuous, gambling drunkard with a black heart and a tortured past, I craved something different. I wanted a hero who was good.
Part of why I write romance novels is to create the book I want to read. [...]
An excerpt from A Groom Of One’s Own is here! Before you read it, read all about it! The duke and his writing girl are quite alone. There is head bonking involved. There is definitely some very impertinent behavior from one Miss Sophie Harlow. The duke, ever so gracious and…ducal, tolerates it all marvelously. And [...]
In an early draft of A Groom Of One’s Own there was a scene where the characters planned the menu for the wedding breakfast. It got cut because nothing particularly interesting happened and I never really fixed it up because I kept getting hungry and wandering away from my computer for “nuppin to eat” as [...]
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