There are lots of blogs out there about what’s in a name. Usually, I obsess over the naming of my characters, but in The Rogue And The Rival, I just picked two and was done with it. Oddly enough, I picked two perfectly meaningful names, as my dear friend Molly explains. Can you tell [...]
When writing my first villain in The Heir And The Spare, I gave Lord Phillip every possible vice and flaw I could think of. I wanted it to be very, very clear that he was bad. So he drinks, gambles, is a bad kisser and has allegedly ruined numerous women.
It was great fun fixing him [...]
I’ve been sensing a trend in romance-land lately: a preference for older heroines. She might be a spinster. She might be a widow. She might even be a courtesan. She’s not the traditional innocent girl making her debut. She’s what I call a lady who has lived a little.
Some of the ones I’ve enjoyed lately [...]
Comments (2) Phillip Kensington, Marquis of Huntley, heir to the Duke of Buckingham, Absolute Scoundrel, evil twin, reformed rake and hero of The Rogue And The Rival, was supposed to die.
In fact, I did kill him off.
A very early version of The Heir And The Spare included his death scene, in which he reconciles with Devon [...]
Comments (0) A fellow romance author was over at my apartment, naturally browsing my bookshelves, and she remarked that our “research” shelves contained pretty much all the same volumes. Below is a list of books I turn to again and again:What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist—the Facts of Daily Life [...]
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