When the Titanic was bu...

Turn the clock back one century with PD Singer. Her book Maroon tells the story of two Irish shipbuilders who work on the Titanic. Here’s a taste of their world, in fascinating details that make Dublin in the era of luxury liners come alive again! If we stepped back a hundred years...

Lola Dances by Victor J...

I’m thrilled to have Victor J. Banis as a guest here today. He is a household name in gay fiction, author of over 150 books, even some het romance under a pen name! Here’s how one of my favorites, Lola Dances, came about. Even if you think you don’t like historicals,...

Making HIStory HERstory...

It was Georgette Heyer who addicted me to Regency romance, and my first Regency-set romance was dedicated to her. But I have also always been fascinated by the strong women of history. In a time when women had almost no rights at all, every now and then a woman overcame every obstacle to...

Not Your Stereotypical ...

I like to think of myself as non-judgmental. I’m trying to raise my children with the mindset that everyone is equal. I’m proud of the fact that to them a family with two moms or two dads or different skin color from ours are no different fundamentally than their own family. But in...

To Love a Thief, or The...

Leave a comment here to win a copy of any title on EM Lynley’s backlist! Winner selected on May 1, 2012. One of my favorite aspects of writing romance is taking two characters who may not like each other on page one—or worse, absolutely hate each other—and get them into some...

Clare London holds on f...

I’m holding on for my own special hero – though Freeman’s a rather different applicant from the usual! When I started writing Freeman, I knew I wanted a hero in the old-fashioned sense – discreet but tough, quiet but determined *sigh happily* – and I wanted...