Unknown 03.11 Add Comment Edit MOC Hi, Jo Beverley here, writing about one of my favourite plot lines. MOC = Marriage of Convenience, though in historical romance novels the u... Read More
Unknown 01.16 Add Comment Cornwall, Cotehele, Joana Starnes, Pride and Prejudice, The Falmouth Connection Edit Cornwall and ‘The Falmouth Connection’ I have yet to find a more romantic place than Cornwall. Romance hangs in the air on secluded beaches that make you think of smugglers and da... Read More
Unknown 01.22 Add Comment Edit Marie Lloyd – Queen of the Music Hall and Unwitting Victim of the American White Slave of 1910 This month I have been researching the Edwardian era for my novel about suffragettes and decided to give one of my characters the name ‘Ma... Read More
Unknown 00.20 Add Comment Edit The reasons why I love being a historical fiction author-publisher. Last week I released The Duke and Miss Bannerman – again. I wrote this book many years ago and sold it to DC Thomson, then to large print wi... Read More
Unknown 00.28 Add Comment Elizabeth Hawksley, Jane Austen, Mrs Bennet, Pride and Prejudice Edit A JANE AUSTEN POST: MRS BENNET IS A WONDERFUL MOTHER: DISCUSS I've just been re-reading Pride and Prejudice , and I found myself wondering what, if anything, could be said in Mrs Bennet's favour... Read More
Unknown 19.00 Add Comment Larry, medicine, Regency, Return of the Runaway, Sarah Mallory, surgery, Treaty of Amiens, Waterloo Edit Surgeons, Doctors and a new Sarah Mallory novel! My very latest Sarah Mallory novel , Return of the Runaway , is published next month, so I thought I would give you a sneak preview of the... Read More