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An IPPY award for An Affectionate Heart
Exciting news! An Affectionate Heart took the bronze medal for romance in the Independent Book Publisher Awards for 2023! The Independent...
May 15, 2023


Annulments in Regency England
Regency romances often feature the threat of annulment or the fear of a partner asking for one. Sometimes the plot has an agreement to...
May 7, 2023


Have a listen to An Affectionate Heart
An Affectionate Heart is now available as an audiobook! I'm so excited to bring this out. I've wanted to produce an audiobook as an indie...
Sep 25, 2022


An Affectionate Heart Epilogue
I have a new goodie for newsletter subscribers. When you subscribe to my monthly newsletter, you'll get the unpublished epilogue to An...
Aug 14, 2022


Regency Income: 500 versus 10,000 per year
Jane Austen always informs us about the financial status of her characters. It wasn't a taboo topic like it often is today. James Morland...
Jul 17, 2022


Someone call an apothecary
When you read a regency and someone falls ill and calls for an apothecary, do you wonder, “Why don’t they call a real doctor?” We modern...
Jun 26, 2022


Mourning Jewelry: creepy or cool?
I feature a piece of jewelry in every full-length Regency novel I write. Usually, jewelry is associated with glamor and wealth, or is a...
Jun 12, 2022


Single women in Georgian England
Elizabeth Elliot from Persuasion “had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions: she was...
May 22, 2022


Carriage and Horse Accidents in An Affectionate Heart
As delightful as it might sound to us to ride in an open carriage, driving and riding in Georgian England wasn’t as carefree as you might...
May 15, 2022
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