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Another one for the holidays:

12/16/2011

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I also set a Regency at Cotehele--my sister lives very close to the house and the first time I saw it I knew it was the perfect setting for a story. Or two.

In SMUGGLERS' SUMMER,  though I described the house pretty accurately, I did add a secret passage. Somehow it also turned up in Mistletoe and Murder...  
    This is the original cover of Mistletoe and Murder. Though somewhat murky, and apparently showing a summer scene, it is a picture of the actual house where the story is set, Cotehele, though I called it Brockdene, so as not to upset surviving family members NOT related to the odd goings-on that Christmas of 1923.  
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Just for the holidays:

12/08/2011

 
A collection of Regency novellas, available in Kindle, Nook and other ebook formats.

The Match of the Season: The heir to a dukedom is about to propose to Lady Cecily. Lord Avon is rich, handsome, charming. Cecy is rich, beautiful, an obedient daughter. Both families look forward with delight to an announcement...except Cecy. And when she meets Lord Avon's cousin, a mere commoner, her vague dissatisfaction turns into something quite different.

He Stoops to Conquer: Prudence, alias Seraphina Savage, is just an actress with a troupe hired by the marquis to entertain his Christmas guests with a performance of She Stoops to Conquer. But something about her intrigues Lord Rusholme, heir to the marquis, and he'll stop at nothing to find out exactly what she's up to at his family seat.
 

Another large print Regency...

09/26/2011

 
Coming in November, My Lord Winter in large print, US and UK
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Lady Jane, neglected by her busy father and the beautiful mother who won't acknowledge having a grown-up daughter, sets off for London with her beloved governess. Their ancient carriage collapses en route, and they're forced to take refuge with Lord Wintringham, whose nickname, Lord Winter, describes him to a T. However, Jane, pretending to be a poor commoner, finds that there's more to Lord Winter than appears on the chilly surface. When they meet again in London, winter turns towards spring. But now Lord Winter trusts her, how can she admit her deception?
And could spring be in the air for a far-from-elderly governess, too?
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New Regency large print

09/01/2011

 
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THE BABE AND THE BARON

now out in large print in the US and UK

Laura is left poor and pregnant when her ne'er-do-well husband dies in an accident while celebrating incipient fatherhood. His cousin Gareth gallops to the rescue and bears Laura off to his estate in the Welsh Marches. At Llys, she finds herself one of the throng of idiosyncratic dependents who bedevil his life, from naughty young nephews to an eccentric uncle...
 

Regency news

08/04/2011

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My Regencies are doing very nicely now that they're available for Kindle.

Also, two more are coming out in large print, one this month, one in November, in UK and US.
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This is the August one--written originally in response to a request from my editor to write a book with a baby in it!

Thorndike's blurb: It wasn’t all that shocking when Lady Laura Chamberlain’s ne’er-do-well husband met an untimely end. But Laura was left without a spouse‚ without means … and with child. Her unlikely savior was the dashing Lord Wyckham‚ who deemed it his duty to protect her. Soon she was ensconced in his ancestral manor‚ surrounded by eccentric relatives. But Wyckham was the oddest of all: a confirmed bachelor‚ he treated Laura as anything but an unwanted relation.
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This is the paperback cover.
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Long-lived kittens!

07/15/2011

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The German translation of Snowflake Kittens is still earning royalties! Dribs and drabs, but amazing considering my novella was written in 1999 and translated in 2003. Must be my only Regency still in print.

All the Regencies are available as ebooks--and all my novellas, originally packaged with other authors' stories, are now in their own collections. This one has gone back to my original title, Wooing Mariana, which Zebra changed to A Kiss and a Kitten--ugh! When asked to write a story about a kitten, I said couldn't I do a puppy instead, and was told no, kittens sell.

I guess they were right, at least in Germany (But I sneaked a puppy in too). The German title of my story is Wie Hund und Katze, which I take it means like cat and dog--a neat pun describing the relationship between my hero and heroine. There were 3 German editions, 2 pb, one hc, all with different artwork.
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Love comes on soft paws
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#4--this may be the ebook??
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A spot of holiday cheer:

12/20/2010

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A spot of holiday cheer for your Kindle or Nook: two "happily ever after" novellas set in Regency England.

"The Match of the Season"--an eligible young lady about to be engaged to a very eligible heir to a dukedom meets his thoroughly ineligible brother...

"He Stoops to Conquer"--a most unusual actress catches the eye of the heir to the lord who's hired the theatre company to perform She Stoops to Conquer for his Christmas house-party.

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Murderous Regency

12/08/2010

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Today Captain Ingram's Inheritance comes out in large print. Strictly speaking, it's not a mystery, but it has three attempted murders in it, so it's definitely crime fiction! It's the third of a trilogy, so here's a bit about them all.

The first is Miss Jacobson's Journey. It's a story about smuggling gold across enemy France to Lord Wellington's troops in the Peninsula, to pay the troops. The British government was in despair because the French sank so many of their ships carrying gold for the soldiers. The Rothschilds came to the rescue (true) and Miriam Jacobson got caught up in their schemes (fiction), escorted by two handsome young men who loathed each other.
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Lord Roworth's Reward: Felix Roworth, his father deeply in debt, works as a courier for Nathan Rothschild. After Napoleon's escape from Elba, Felix is in Brussels, awaiting the outcome of the coming battle between the allies and the French. Sharing his lodgings are Fanny and Frank Ingram. Frank, an artillery officer, is badly wounded at Quatre Bras. Felix is torn between his duty to his employer and his desire to help Fanny get Frank to safety in England.
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Captain Ingram's Inheritance: Frank Ingram, seriously injured, is nursed by Lord Roworth's sister, Lady Constantia. He falls in love but, a poor soldier, he can't aspire to her hand, until he hears of an unexpected inheritance. But someone doesn't want Captain Ingram to take possession of his estate...
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Lord Roworth's Reward

09/02/2010

 
I just found out:
 "Amazon.com sent out a message today about the forthcoming publication of [my Regency] Lord Roworth's Reward in large print. It was the featured book of the day."

 Wow, Amazon has good taste!
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This is the cover of the e-book version, available at www.RegencyReads.com and other e-book sellers.

I'd post the original paperback cover, which is really cute, except I lost the .jpg when I switched computers and I'd have to scan it. Someday...
This is the second in my Rothschild Trilogy. In the first, Miss Jacobson's Journey, Miriam Jacobson is involved in a plan to smuggle Rothschild gold across France to pay Wellington's army in the Peninsula. Lord Roworth is one of her travelling companions. In the second book, he is Nathan Rothschild's agent in Brussels during the Battle of Waterloo. He shares lodgings with an artillery officer, Frank Ingram, and his sister Fanny, and their 3-yr-old ward. When Frank is badly wounded at the Battle of Quatre Bras, Fanny turns to Roworth for help.
 

E-NEWS

06/02/2010

 
I just found out my Regency ebooks are now available for Nook e-readers at BarnesandNoble.com, (They have the most recent mysteries, too.) as well as a variety of other e-book sites and the publisher's, RegencyReads.com. I love getting royalties for books I wrote decades ago!

The Babe and the Baron was my best seller for the quarter.
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