Lighting in the Georgian period – so that’s where snot comes from: http://historicalromanceuk.blogspot.com/
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Anna Small is today’s Featured Beau Monde Author.
Anna is a PRO member of Romance Writers of America and according to her, it seems like she’s been writing romance forever!
Anna says….My western historical, TAME THE WILD WIND, was published by The Wild Rose Press in 2010 and a contemporary romance, TAKING A CHANCE ON FOREVER, was published in 2011 by Bookstrand.
My website is www.annasmallbooks.com.
Regency Coin — What Did it Cost? by Shannon Donnelly
In Proper Conduct, Shannon Donnelly’s heroine spends a good deal of time worrying about money that is not there, particular after her father spends nearly 1,000 pounds on a horse.
Not an excessive sum to someone such as the Prince Regent, whose racing stud farm cost him 30,000 pounds a year.
But all these numbers seemed to need a bit of perspective.
Continue reading “Regency Coin — What Did it Cost? by Shannon Donnelly”
Alicia Rasley is today’s Featured Beau Monde Author.
Alicia grew up as the oldest girl in a family of ten. She had a lot of responsibility early, but she is a self-admitted daydreamer. Books provided an escape from her routine life, and some of the books she read were the Regency novels of Georgette Heyer. "Suddenly there was a new world for me, far from the noise and chaos of a big family and school, a place of elegance and wit," she tells us. She was inspired to write Regencies, and after beginning a dozen, she finished her first when she was twenty-five. She wrote a half dozen Regencies, winning a Rita Award along the way.
But Alicia did not stay entirely faithful to Regency novels. She wrote a couple of women’s fiction novels and two non-fiction writing how-tos. But she has returned to the writing of Regencies once again, admitting that she has been seduced back into that elegant, exciting time and place. She likes rakish heroes, reckless heroines and elegant stories.
Regardless of all the romance she has read and written, Alicia says she has always been practical and is the most unromantic romance writer one would ever meet. She pours all her romantic notions into her writing. "Just ask my husband!" she says. "He’ll tell you he really gets off easy when it comes to anniversary and birthday gifts!"
Her most recent novel is The Year She Fell.
Find her at Facebook — regencystories.wordpress.com/ — http://aliciarasleybooks.com/
PATHS OF DESIRE by Shannon Donnelly
ISBN: 978-0-9831423-9-3 Copyright 2012
With too many secrets in her past, and too little future as an actress, Theodosia Newell wants one thing more than all else—security. She’s seen her mother abandoned, her younger brother die, and she’s vowed never to be poor. But then her path crosses that of a man who tempts her to abandon caution and all thought for the future for a passionate affair. Can she find the courage to break from her deepest fears? And will her love prove enough to save them both?
Born with a soul for adventure, David Llewellyn cannot resist a challenge—and his enthusiasm for life is as magnetic as his personality. But two women share his life, and only one can be his. Will his stubborn refusal to make a choice between them lead him to lose everything? Or will he find, in the journey to the lost city he dreams of discovering, a path to a deeper love than he thought possible?
For ten years, the affair between David and Thea goes from passion to love. Lives are changed. Secrets come out. Marriages end. And new ones begin. Through it all, the desire of two strong-willed people lead them to clash, and to eventually find their own path–to each other and to facing the need and love they share. From London to Italy to Syria, the Paths of Desire lead them on a journey they must make together.
Available on Amazon Kindle and B&N Nook.
Regency Romance long novella (39,000 words) released 14th February
Let the Wicked Wagers Begin…
Lady Caitlin Southall’s temper has finally got the better of her. She’s challenged Harlow Telford, the Duke of Dangerfield, the most notorious rake in all of England, to a wager. She wants her house back. The one her destitute father lost to Dangerfield in a card game. But if she doesn’t win their bet, she not only loses her home, she loses her dignity and pride and damn it all, maybe her heart… For the handsome Duke has decreed, when he wins, she must spend the night in his bed.
Harlow Telford is amused by his hellion neighbor, Caitlin, or Cate to her friends, who seem to encompass everyone on earth except him. When she bursts into one of his private gatherings, he mistakes her for the entertainment. Her slap across his face sets him straight and raises the absurd desire to seduce the unconventional beauty into his bed. When she issues her daft challenge to win back her father’s pile of rubble, the terms are set. And he’ll do anything to win—except fall in love…
Invitation to Ruin – RT Reviewer’s Choice – Best First Book Nominee 2011
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Released March 2012 Publisher, ISBN Midsummer Books ISBN: 978-1-4659-2698-2
Type of Regency (Traditional, Regency Historical, Regency Paranormal) Traditional Regency
The warrior returns… but he never really comes home. Allegra has longed for the return of her soldier husband. But when the war ends, he is more distant than ever. After months of trying to reach him, she leaves to chaperone her husband-hunting younger sister at a duchess’s house party. Only then does Nicholas know that to win her, he must leave the war behind and truly come home to her for good.
Author website URL / http://aliciarasleybooks.com/ Author blog edittorrent.blogspot.com
Twitter / @RegencyTwisters Facebook Alicia Rasley
Deb is a Goddess! Guest post at The Goddess Blogs
Deb’s Web site – http://debmarlowe.com/index.shtml
The first realization about medicine in the Regency era is that it bears almost no resemblance to modern medicine. The great discoveries that have helped most of our great-grandparents live long enough to create our grandparents were yet to be discovered.
What historian Roy Porter calls “The Three A’s” were developed later in the 19th Century and into the 20th:
❖ Anaesthesia
❖ Antiseptics (and antisepsis)
❖ Antibiotics (ultimately)
So when you imagine a medical practice without those three, well, you’ll probably think of Regency-era physicians as not much advanced since the Middle Age alchemists and astrologers.
Publisher: Midsummer Books Released: January 2012
Regency Escapades by Alicia Rasley feature rakish heroes, reckless heroines, and elegant stories. Royal Renegade offers the reader the historical depth and romantic intensity of the best traditional Regencies.
Alicia Rasley is a RITA-award winning Regency author and e-book bestseller.
ASIN: B006MW3L8I – ISBN 978-1-4660-5880-4
Available from Amazon and Smashwords
Musa Publishing, 978-1-61937-113-2
Regency Historical
www.vonniehughes.com
To be released 27 January, 2012 by www.musapublishing.com
Also available from Amazon, All Romance Ebooks, Smashword, Bookstrand, Kobo, Diesel, Apple, Barnes & Noble
Avon, 978-0-06-202580-7
Regency Historical from Harper Collins
www.AnnaRandol.com
Jan. 31, 2021
Back Cover Blurb
Make the ducks happy and win an estate!
Mr. Christopher “Kit” Winnington can’t believe the letter from his late great-aunt’s solicitor. In order to inherit her estate, he must win a contest against her companion, Miss Angela Stratton. Whoever makes his great-aunt’s pet ducks happy wins.
A contest: What a cork-brained idea. This Miss Stratton is probably a sly spinster who camouflaged her grasping nature from his good-natured relative. There is no way he will let the estate go to a usurper.
Angela never expected her former employer to name her in her will. Most likely, this Mr. Winnington is a trumped-up jackanapes who expects her to give up without a fight. Well, she is made of sterner stuff.
The ducks quack in avian bliss while Kit and Angela dance a duet of desire as they do their utmost to make the ducks–and themselves–happy.
Release date: February 1, 2012
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
by Ann LethbridgeHarlequin Historicals, 978-0373296781
Regency Historical Romance with a hint of mystery – NAL Signet Eclipse, 978-0451236104
Beakers and ball gowns don’t mix, so when a lady chemist goes undercover as a husband-hunter to investigate the earl whose family she thinks murdered her father, romance isn’t part of her formula. But it only takes one kiss to start a reaction she can’t control…
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February 7. 2012
Thomas Bouregy &Co./Avalon, ISBN-13: 9780803474611
Traditional Regency
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Excerpt at www.avalonbooks.com
Grand Central Publishing/978-0446573153
Regency Historical
February 2012
Kensington Aphrodisia, ISBN 978-0-7582- 6945-4
Regency erotic romance
www.katepearce.com
February 2012
Love Inspired Historical, ISBN 978-0-373-82905-7
Inspirational Regency
Jerome Everard expected to inherit his wayward uncle’s estate. Instead, all has gone to a daughter his uncle never bothered to mention! Only by disproving his young cousin’s claim can Jerome save the family’s legacy for a schemer. So why would he find himself drawn to the girl’s lovely governess, Adele Walcott, the woman who holds the key to all his uncle’s secrets?
With Adele’s family fortune, and her marriage prospects, long gone, her goal in life is to secure her charge’s happiness, even if that means taking on her new cousin. Jerome is surely a rogue like his uncle, for he seems intent on charming her, and making her dream of love again. When she learns his true motives, will she be able to forgive his past and reform his heart, to make it hers forever?
February 2012
Berkley Sensation, 978-0425246603
Regency Historical
http://www.carolynjewel.com/index.php
Sourcebooks Casablanca, ISBN: 978-14022- 5831-2
Regency Historical
www.samanthagraceauthor.com
February 2012
WHEN A SCOT LOVES A LADY by Katharine Ashe
A Falcon Club Novel, Book #1
A spinster fleeing society, a roguish lord bent on seduction, and a quiet little village covered in snow. What could be more deliciously scandalous? But things aren’t always what they seem…
February 28, 2012
Avon, ISBN 978-0062031662
The mission to France is a perilous venture, but the simmering desire is far more dangerous. A desire the English lord and the lovely young woman he rescues dare not acknowledge if they hope to succeed.
Book of the month for February. Available from: Pink Petal Publishing
Can you answer The Beau Monde’s questions about furniture? eg What is a Canterbury? What does it do?
Have you ever begun to research one thing and curiosity leads you to other places, people, or objects? How good is your Regency era knowledge?
Bonhams Auction is selling a Mahogany Canterbury, plus lots of other intriguing items sure to stir the imagination of all Regency romance authors. Some items could certainly be used to provide comic relief.
Continue reading “Regency Furniture – What did they do with it?”
Hope you enjoy them.
A Rake for Christmas by Ann Lethbridge (Harlequin Undone – Short Story Ebook)
ANGELS AT ALMACKS by Catriona Iams (Amazon Digital Services)
Principessa Adina has fled her home in occupied Malta and sailed for England with a fear of intimacy and the unchristian prayer that her evil betrothed, Count Basa, rots in the belly of a shark. Scotland’s Rannoch MacQuaire seeks a noble English wife to gain him admittance to London’s politically influential social circles, and hence, support for a canal in the Highlands. Unfortunately, allying with the English makes Rannoch feel he’s forsaken all his forefathers held dear, making success the only outcome to justify his treason.
The attractive Highlander intrigues Adina in ways she never imagined possible given her shameful past. As well, her little royal dog of Malta looks so safe in his strong arms. Rannoch falls for the exotic and unpretentious Adina, too, but her lack of connections make her unsuitable for his purposes. Adina finds Rannoch’s steadfast loyalty to his beloved Scotland admirable, lovable, and ultimately heartbreaking.
It’s up to the motivated novice Cherub named Nimba to bring this unlikely couple together. If the embodied Nimba succeeds without interfering with human Free Will (a serious offense) or revealing her true nature she will please the Cherubim General and ascend the hierarchical ranks. Alas, Human Free Will is a formidable obstacle, but not Nimba’s only obstacle; dark forces are at work.
Perfectly Flawed by Shirley Marks
A cross-post from The Regency Redingote:
No, this book is not about Jane Austen’s Mrs. Hurst from Pride and Prejudice. The Mrs. Hurst who lent her name to the title of this delightful volume was a real woman, who lived during the Regency. Her home was in a small English village in Buckinghamshire called Newport Pagnell, and she loved to dance. She was captured in full swing one evening at her home in a charming watercolor by a young friend, Diana Sperling.
The full title of this book is Mrs Hurst Dancing & Other Scenes from Regency Life 1812 – 1823. I stumbled across it in my local library and was immediately enchanted. This volume contains full-size reproductions of a number of watercolor sketches made by a young woman called Diana Sperling during the years of the Regency and just beyond. Miss Sperling also wrote witty explanatory captions for most of these watercolors which gives a real flavor of the daily life of a family of the minor gentry during the Regency.
Taryn Kincaid is today’s Featured Beau Monde Author.
Taryn Kincaid began writing as soon as she could and has never stopped. She is particularly pleased when she is lucky enough to be paid for her words. In additon to her books, she is also an award-winning reporter and columnist, covering stories ranging from fires and homicides to corrupt politicians and heroic dogs. Taryn is a member of the Beau Monde as well as the Hudson Valley RWA, in addition to the Fantasy, Futuristic, and Paranormal chapters. Her most recent tale, a Regency novella, is Healing Hearts, which was published earlier this year.
Taryn enjoys reading in all genres, but she says she likes writing historical romance and romantic paranormals best. She has a couple of paranormal stories in progress, but is eager to write another Regency, perhaps a story linked to the main characters in her novella, Healing Hearts.
Find her at Facebook — @TarynKincaid — dreamvoyagers.blogspot.com
A cross-post from The Regency Redingote:
The stories of The Scarlet Pimpernel take place during the French Revolution, more than a score of years before the beginning of the English Regency. And yet, without the work of Baroness Orczy, we might not have all those delightful Regency novels written by Georgette Heyer.
Cheryl Bolen is today’s Featured Beau Monde Author.
Cheryl Bolen is the acclaimed author of eight Regency-set historical romance novels published by Harlequin Historical and Zebra Historicals, some of which are now available as e-books. Her books have placed in several writing contests, including the Daphne du Maurier, and have been translated into eleven languages. She was named Notable New Author in 1999, and in 2006 she won the Holt Medallion (Honoring Outstanding Literary Talent) for Best Short Historical Novel. Her last two books became Barnes & Noble bestsellers.
A former journalist who admits to a fascination with dead Englishwomen, Cheryl is a regular contributor to The Regency Plume, The Regency Reader, and The Quizzing Glass. Many of her articles can found on her website, www.CherylBolen.com. Cheryl holds a dual degree in English and journalism from the University of Texas, and she earned a master’s degree from the University of Houston. She and her professor husband are the parents of two sons, one who is an attorney, and the other a journalist.
Find her at www.cherylbolen.com
Tracey Devlyn is today’s Featured Beau Monde Author.
Tracey Devlyn writes historical romantic thrillers (translation: a slightly more grievous journey toward the heroine’s happy ending). She accepted a three-book deal from Sourcebooks, Inc. in April 2010. Her first release, A Lady’s Revenge, will hit the bookstores in April 2012.
Tracey is a co-founder of Romance University, a group blog dedicated to readers and writers of romance. She is also a member of Romance Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, and the Hearts Through History, The Beau Monde, Women’s Fiction, and Windy City Romance Writers of America chapters.
An Illinois native, Tracey spends her evenings harassing her once-in-a-lifetime husband and her weekends torturing her characters.
Find her at Facebook — @TraceyDevlyn — traceydevlyn.com/blog — traceydevlyn.com
Nicole Jordan is today’s Featured Beau Monde Author.
New York Times bestselling author Nicole Jordan spins delightful Regency tales that simmer with passion and sensuality. With over two dozen historical romances to her credit and six million books in print, Nicole has earned such honors as RITA finalist, RWA’s Favorite Book of the Year, the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award, and the Dorothy Parker Award of Excellence, presented by a group of over one hundred romance reviewers.
In her former life, Nicole grew up as an Army brat, moving frequently and attending high school in Germany. She later earned a civil engineering degree from Georgia Tech. Currently Nicole lives in the Rocky Mountains of Utah with her real-life hero (her husband) and beloved kids (her horses).
Find her at Facebook — nicolejordanauthor.com
Heather Boyd is today’s Featured Beau Monde Author.
Heather Boyd is a fan of novels of the English Regency. She has only recently turned her hand to writing, admitting that she finds life as a romance author very exciting. She is the author of erotic romances with an historical bent. She does not like her romance sugar-coated, and is fascinated by the strange language and customs of bygone times, especially those of the Regency. She therefore takes delight in writing m/f and m/m stories which push the boundaries of propriety and even break the laws of that era.
Heather has chosen to eschew literary representation and has come to believe that independent publishing is an essential component of her writing career. She looks eagerly to the future and believes the best of her work is yet to come.
Find her at Facebook — @Heather_Boyd — heatherboyd.wordpress.com/ — www.heather-boyd.com
About Lord Byron by Nancy Mayer
Lord Byron
1788 – 1824In April 1812, Lord Byron “awoke and found himself famous.” The occasion was the publication of the first two cantos of his “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,” a poetical version of his journey to Greece.
It wasn’t exactly true that he had been unknown before 1812. He had been a man of interest to society ever since his return from travels to Spain and Greece. He was a bachelor peer and a new face on the social scene.
The publication of the poem made people of all classes more aware of him.
Lord Byron had a crippled foot and an air that made him wildly attractive to some females. He became the lion of the hour. He received more invitations than a man could possibly accept. He, also, if all tales are correct, received locks of hair from the head and pubic area of females, as well as gifts, love letters and all the silly things females still send to celebrities.
Not all ladies were attracted to him. Miss Edgeworth wasn’t as impressed by him as he was by her.
A cross-post from The Regency Redingote:
Tea parties are common events in innumerable Regency romance novels. Countless characters in attendance at those fictional events take sugar in their tea. But the manner in which they take that sugar is not always historically accurate.
Will that be lumps or cubes?
Elena Greene is today’s Featured Beau Monde Author.
A long time fan of Regency era romance, Elena Greene began writing her own stories after an inspiring three-year international assignment in the United Kingdom. She has written five Regency romances and a Regency novella. Her books have won the Desert Rose Golden Quill Award, the Colorado Romance Writers’ Award of Excellence and the National Readers’ Choice Award. They have also been nominated for the Holt Medallion and the Booksellers’ Best Award.
Elena’s last book, Lady Dearing’s Masquerade, was awarded the Romantic Times Best Regency Romance of 2005.
After a long hiatus due to a family crisis, Elena is happily writing again. She lives in upstate New York with her husband and two children.
Find her at — www.riskyregencies.blogspot.com/ — www.elenagreene.com
