Hero Material
Historical Romance 101 would tell you that every hero needs a horse. In my case, the heroine needed the horse. And against all odds, my hero just came through. Big Time. I grew up with horses, and as a girl I was never so happy as when I was riding hell-bent and bareback across the
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Florence Nightingale: Rebel in a Skirt
This post also appears at www.dashingduchesses.com I find it very interesting that recent discussions on Dear Author and Romance Writers of America (See “Rocking the Mistorical, by the lovely Duchess Valerie Bowman) have focused on the concept of the “mistorical” and whether historical romance today does due diligence to the time periods about which we
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What Happens in Georgia
Well y’all, it’s official. As one of my fellow Georgia Romance Writers recently tweeted, “There’s something in the water down here!” Now, on the surface, Georgia may seem like a fairly laidback place. We have Spanish moss, of course, and we all know that stuff won’t grow on anything too pretentious. We do have
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