The London Weekly is a newspaper of my own invention, but some of the stories in it are not. I stole them from actual Regency newspapers because, Lordy, you would not believe what folks got up to! Here is one of my favorites…but first, I must say, that wedding planning has made me consider elopement [...]
I wrote the first two writing girl books while I was in graduate school, studying early 19th century British literature. One class in particular was absolutely invaluable to my research: The Economy of Print Media. Basically, we studied the cheap, “trashy”, real stuff that people were actually reading: periodicals, railway novels, and, of course, [...]
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Comments (0) Yeah! Research! Super fun! Maybe not, but here are my favorite sources for looking stuff up and checking stuff out.
Google books: It’s very useful for finding old, out of print books (that are free!). Also, you can search for keywords, etc, in the text to see if it’s worth reading or even worth buying.
The Colindale [...]
Once upon a time, I asked my dear readers (that would be you) to supply some names that I might use in A Groom Of One’s Own, formerly known as The Sinfully Seductive Rakish Rogue’s Mysterious Midnight Mistress of Pleasure. One of the characters is a shameless namedropper, so a lot of names were required, [...]
This little scene between Miss Harlow and Mr. Knightly didn’t make it into the final version of A Groom Of One’s Own, but I’m quite fond of it, so here is a little exclusive bonus material for y’all. Oh and PS: there aren’t any spoilers here. Enjoy!
One week after our heroine has been jilted at [...]
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