Tag: authors
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Guest Post: Interview with Eleanor Melville, from Jude Knight’s A Raging Madness
Today, I turn my blog over to historical romance author Jude Knight, who brings us an interview with her heroine. Readers, enjoy! My heroine is Eleanor Melville, widow of cavalry officer and baronet Captain Sir Gervase Melville. Ella was living at her husband’s country estate, nursing his elderly mother, until the dowager Lady Melville died…
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The Perils of Travel in Historical Fiction: A Guest Post by Caroline Warfield
Travel presents a challenge to any writer of historical fiction. I once asked my brother, a navy veteran, how long it would take to sail from Ostia to Genoa and he said, “That would depend on the ship, the tides, the winds, and the weather.” Not much help! Luckily there are sources that can give…
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Guest Post: Author Jude Knight
Today, I bring you a post from Jude Knight, author of Farewell to Kindness, Candle’s Christmas Chair, and her latest release, A Baron for Becky. (All of which are available on Amazon and to which I’ve included the links below, including an excerpt from A Baron for Becky.) She has graced me with a wonderful…
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By Its Cover
There are parts of writing and publishing that I love and parts I absolutely abhor. I hate writing a blurb (that handful of paragraphs on the back of the book that tells you, the reader, what it’s all about – without giving away too much, of course). I hate the moment I get notes back…
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I’m Not That Sort of Girl
Book promotion is not something I like to do. When I first realized that I wanted to be a writer, I didn’t sit down with a notebook and plot out my first blog post, or my first awkward interaction with another author on Twitter. (For the record, Twitter didn’t exist then. Neither did blogs or…
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Dawning of Light (Lightbearer Book 2) by Tami Lund: Cover Reveal and Giveaway
Dawning of Light by Tami Lund (Lightbearer Book 2) Publication date: December 15th, 2014 Genres: Paranormal Romance What It’s All About: Finnegan Hennigan meets his match in spunky Cecilia Druthers, a woman he can barely stand. Cecelia’s opinion of Finn? He’s an oaf and a killjoy. But, opposites can’t resist each other in Dawning of Light by Tami Lund.…