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Frequently Asked Questions Click on each question to expand/contract What is the title of your next book and when is it coming out?
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You mentioned on Facebook that one of your books is going to be a comic book, how did that happen, which book will it be and when will it be available?
Artwork by: Chisato Nakamura
Something About Emmaline has been translated and published in a two volume, manga style book. The company who originally translated the book into Japanese thought this story and This Rake of Mine had great potential for manga and began to put the stories and artists together. Here is a first drawing from This Rake of Mine, and I am so excited to see my characters come to life this way. Believe me, this is something I never imagined happening, but it sure is cool. If you haven't read This Rake of Mine, take a peek at the excerpt. To see more about this project, read about it on my Blog.
At the end of Memoirs of a Scandalous Red Dress, you introduced us to John Gossett and his unlikely companion, Molly. Will you be writing their story? And what about Nate? And for that matter, Ginger? (Please, can you find her a better husband?!)
I had thought I was going to write these books right after I finished
that latest series of Bachelor Chronicles books about the Standon
widows' starting with How
I Met My Countess, then Mad
About the Duke, but since then I've found another series I
would like to write. While I love the characters of John, Nate
and Ginger'and yes, I agree, Ginger needs a truly heroic husband'they
are going to have to wait a bit before I tackle their stories.Aren't Something About Emmaline and This Rake of Mine part of the Danvers series?
Yes and no. (Don't you just love that answer??) I meant for Something
About Emmaline to stand on its own, however, I just
couldn't help myself and let Temple, Elton and Diana into the
story. Then before you know it, I was uncovering Elton's past
and they were right there in the middle of the story. On the Danver's timeline, SAE takes place just after
the opening of One
Night of Passion and before Stealing
the Bride. With This
Rake of Mine, you'll see old Danvers characters in
the story, and it's a Danvers' adventure in spirit, just not with
a Danvers hero. Have Pippin and Dash from This Rake of Mine and Love Letters from a Duke had their own story?
Yes! It was a story I was dying to write. Their adventures began in This Rake of Mine, and continued through appearances in Love Letters from a Duke and my April 2009 book, Confessions of a Little Black Gown, until their final love story was told in Memoirs of a Scandalous Red Dress, available now.
When are you going to write another Marlowe book?
I loved His Mistress by Morning, so please tell me who gets the next wish.
Hermione makes the next haphazard wish and finds that instead of being noticed by Rockhurst, she's gone and turned herself invisible. Tempted by the Night is out in stores August 26, 2008 and sure to surprise readers. Let me just say, Lord Rockhurst isn't quite what he seems.
Why did you decide to write a paranormal series?
Are you going to write Orlando's book?
Given that Orlando died of a gunshot wound to the chest in the
opening of Once
Tempted it would seem improbable that he would have
his own book. But with that said, and after years of being hounded
and pleaded with, I have to admit that I am currently plotting
a story for him. No publication date yet, but yes, his story will
be written. What is Temple's first name?
No offense, but were these books written out of order? Because I just purchased Stealing the Bride and am not quite sure where it fits in the series.
One Night of Passion
Stealing the Bride
Once Tempted
It Takes a Hero
The Matchmaker's Bargain, a novella in Hero, Come Back
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Are you going to write Kit's story?
What happened to Elton and his bride in Stealing the Bride?
Mea Culpa! I had a full paragraph about Elton and his wife in
the Epilogue and somehow in editing and page proofs it got lost.
So my apologies for not catching it before it was too late. But
rest assured, Elton and his wife live very comfortably in a lovely
house on the Duke of Setchfield's estates. Elton still drives
for Temple on occasion, since we all know what a terrible whip
the duke is. If you still want to learn more about Elton and his
early years, you'll discover an entirely different side to Temple's
valet/batman in Something
About Emmaline.What order should I read the Brazen series?
Am I correct that No Marriage of Convenience is your only unconnected book?
You are correct. I wrote this book deliberately
leaving no thread undone so I wouldn't get caught up writing a
series that I wasn't completely committed to writing. I intended
the same thing when
I began Once
Tempted and look where that led me'the four books in
the Danvers Series that then segued into the Bachelor Chronicles. Do you offer tips or advice on writing? I'd love to start writing a romance.
I have an editor appointment and I am scared to death to pitch to her. What should I do to make sure I don't blow this chance?
Is it true that your first book was published under rather extraordinary circumstances?
Yes! Instead of being plucked from the slush pile like so many
other writer's who get "The Call," I won my first contract through
a contest Dell Publishing used to sponsor called the Dell
Diamond Debut. Authors were asked to submit the first three
chapters of a completed manuscript. Several months later, five
finalists were invited to send in their complete manuscript for
final judging. Finally, at a Romance
Writers of America luncheon, with over 1000 people present,
my book, Brazen
Angel, was declared the winner. It went on to be published
in 1997. Sounds simple, right? If only it had been that easy.
To learn the amazing story behind my amazing win, visit My
Favorite Hero.I saw a Lady Elizabeth Boyle listed on Google. Are you related?
Unfortunately not. As it is, her portrait hangs in the Duke of
Devonshire's residence at Chatsworth. My good friend Jaclyn
Reding was in England visiting a few years ago and was touring
the house when she said she felt compelled to turn around and
there she found this portrait of Lady Elizabeth Boyle staring
down at her. This Lady Elizabeth went on to marry Nicholas, Earl
of Thanet. I'll stick with my Terrence of Grosse Pointe.Is it true you were once in a bank robbery?
What has been your most memorable moment as an author?
There are many, including when I sold my first book, when I won
the RWA Rita
award, but truly the most memorable was when I was being interviewed
for the local paper and they decided to send a photographer over
to take pictures of me. We decided to go down to Puget Sound because
it was close to sunset and the photographer thought that it would
make some great shots. I got out onto a log to make it look like
I was standing on the water, and he shot a bunch of pictures,
but when I went to get back on the beach, I slipped backwards
and fell. It wasn't a pretty sight, since my dress went flying
up over my head and I gave the photographer a lovely view of my
panties (according to my husband.) I landed with a splash in the
Sound, and wondered as I sank to the bottom, sucking in salt water
and seaweed, how long I could stay underwater and avoid the entire
scene back on the beach. Needless to say, I had to come up for
air eventually, and here is one humble author coming to shore.Your books are so full of adventure and suspense, where do you get your ideas?
I used to joke that "I hunted pirates during the day and wrote about them at night." But all joking aside, my job actually had some very dangerous aspects, since my responsibilities included going on seizures and criminal raids with US Customs, the FBI and the RCMP in Canada. You really start to wonder about your sanity when you go on a raid with everyone around you dressed in head to toe Kevlar and armed to the teeth, while you are standing there in a wool suit you bought at Nordstrom. I also traveled with a bodyguard, because of the dangerous nature of my work. Believe it or not, these contemporary adventures gave me plenty of ideas for my historical books.
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