Recently, there was a poll in England for the most ridiculous British laws still on the books. As a writer of British set fiction, I try very hard to adhere to what is lawful and historically accurate. So I've made a note of what not to do in my books, as being both...
I love bumper stickers. I'd probably have my car covered with them if it weren't for my husband who finds them abhorrent. So I enjoy bumper wisdom wherever I find it and occasional I see a bumper sticker that just resonates. This was one of them: Wag More, Bark Less....
For those of you answering that it is time for Love Letters from a Duke to be released, you are wrong. That happens tomorrow. No, it was time for me to get an alarm clock. Mine had an unfortunate accident early in the summer. For those of you who thought it might have...
but Julia Quinn copied me. Oh, yeah. She copied me. I don't think I'll probably ever be able to say that again, so I have to admit to a certain smug satisfaction in it. Not I'm not pointing any fingers or bitter about it, but she saw my most excellent idea and stole...
Captain Slash, the infamous highwayman of Northampton, died this day in 1826. He'd been terrorizing vendors at a horse fair in Boughton when he was apprehended and subsequently hung. To get the better of his mother, who had predicted "he would die with his boots on",...
Oh, yeah. Be warned, ye who is tempted by stationery stores, fancy pens and other writing doodads. This is writer crack. Worse than Godiva. When this comes out of the mailbox, my Visa groans. And why wouldn't it when it holds little wonders like this: And who wouldn't...
