Today is Victoria Day, a public holiday here in Canada. Queen Victoria, until now, was the longest reigning monarch in the British Empire. Queen Elizabeth is set to blitz that record. When? You’d think that would be a fairly simple answer, but it turns out that it isn’t. Just to begin, Queen Elizabeth’s reign includes […]
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More fiction! I think I’ve read more fiction in the last three months than I have for the whole year before that. Steel World B.V. Larson Link Space Opera! And a military hero that goes through a huge learning curve. This isn’t a romance, but it is filled with heroes and other worlds. Fun stuff.
Kiss Across Deserts, book 4 in the Kiss Across Time series, was released last Friday, and it’s been a meteoric weekend… Here’s some reader review quotes! This series just keeps getting more and more interesting! this series has enthralled me with all of its complexities, the wonderful characters and possibilities I was so excited when
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Finally! Took long enough, didn’t it? 🙂 In case this is your first time visiting the site, for the last two months I’ve been running a giveaway–add your review of either Kiss Across Chains or Kiss Across Swords, send me your entry, and you go into the hat for a $100 Amazon gift card. Entries
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I’ve been writing about Vikings in one form or another for quite a few years now. (If you’re curious, there’s a list of Viking related stories I’ve written here.) One of the things that interests me the most is the achievements of the Vikings. They reached as far as America in their open long ships,
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The Eiffel Tower is probably the most famous French feature in the world. It’s instantly recognizable, it’s the tallest structure in Paris and it makes millions each year from tourists who pay to travel to the top. But the tower actually started off life 126 years ago today as the gateway to the 1889 World’s
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Star Wars is the reason I’m writing. Han Solo’s infamous “I know” is the reason I’m writing romance. (For the full story, click here and also here.). So it would be almost criminal for me to ignore Star Wars day. I’m so looking forward to the new movie! Han Solo is back! And I tripped
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So, I lied, last time. Not intentionally! But this will honestly and for-true be my very last reminder about the $100 Amazon Gift Card giveaway, which closes on Thursday. Make sure you: 1) review either Kiss Across Chains, or Kiss Across Swords, and 2) very important; Send me proof of your review so I have
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It feels like a while since I did one of these. Anyway, Viennese Agreement has been launched, yay! And behind the scenes, where I write madly away whenever someone will let me, I just finished the manuscript for the fourth book in the Destiny’s Trinities series. Cora’s Secret was challenging to write. Everyone in the
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226 years ago, eight mutineers aboard The Bounty tossed their captain, Lieutenant William Bligh, and 18 loyal crewmen into a lifeboat and set them adrift. As they made off with the ship, the mutineers, led by Fletcher Christian, dumped boxes of food into the water for the abandoned crew. No one is completely sure why
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