My preview of The River of No Return by Bee Ridgway is up. It is of potential interest to those who are into historical romance and/or time travel stories.

I thought I had a short story releasing today, but without my noticing, the anthology got pushed back to August 23rd. Oh, well. Now I will have an extra blog post on the actual release date ( Read more... )

This post's purpose is to collect my common tags in one place, so readers (and I!) can easily access entries on several subjects.

C.S. Harris, When Gods Die: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery
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Christine Merrill, An Unladylike Offer: Oh, this was fun. Esme has escaped from an abusive father and run to the arms of the rakish St. John, who has Napoleonic Wars angst and is getting himself hooked on laudanum while trying to reform himself and reconnect with his brother, to whom he did Bad Things--there is a distinct hint of Dorothy Dunnett ( Read more... )

Janet Mullany, The Rules of Gentility
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I am way behind on writing up the romances I've been reading.

Joanna Bourne's The Spymaster's Lady: I adore romances set during the Napoleonic Wars. This one opens with a female French spy being held captive by an Evil French Spy who wants the invasion plans with which he believes she's been entrusted. Also in the cell are two English spies, ( Read more... )

Read a cute Regency yesterday, Nancy Butler's The Ramshackle Suitor. Towards the end, it had all the intricacy, and possibly more, of a Georgette Heyer romp. If I were the author, I would've had to use diagrams. Though I guessed some elements of the ending, it was still fun to watch them slot into place. I was okay with some handy psychic ( Read more... )

Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander: A Bisexual Regency Romance, Ann Herendeen ( Read more... )

Have now e-mailed off an electronic copy of "Lip Service" and a bio to the editor of BWE.

Bought the new Laura Kinsale (Shadowheart), though I don't plan to read it until my rewrite is done; also the new Susan Grant, another sf romance ( Read more... )