“Bustle Fluffah” Music Video w/ the Cast of Roundabout Theatre Company’s THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD (by Broadwaycom)
Highland soldier Callum MacDonell battled lowland
Covenanters at the service of the King. Now charged with
hunting an assassin, his journey would lead not to justice,
but to a murderer’s passionate Covenanter sister, Mari
McEwan.
Betrayed and abandoned by the man she loved, Mari faced judgment by a tribunal of her people demanding she name the father of her unborn child, or be exiled from everything she knows.
Only an enemy soldier could save her life—and her heart.
Betrayed and abandoned by the man she loved, Mari faced judgment by a tribunal of her people demanding she name the father of her unborn child, or be exiled from everything she knows.
Only an enemy soldier could save her life—and her heart.
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Maggie MacLaren longs to leave her home town, even if she must quell her attraction to rugged steelworker Jake O'Neill. When Andrew Adair walks into Maggie's library, he sweeps her into his world of wealth and power, where at last dreams seem possible. However, Andrew's world is not all it appears to be.
High above town, reclusive young widow Allison Kimball arrives at her wealthy family's mountain resort home to find tucked into her carpetbag a love letter. So begins a series of secret epistles and midnight trysts with a man known only by his cryptic signature, "D." Their love story unfolds to reveal a truth that will threaten to tear them apart as their world comes crashing down in the Johnstown Flood of 1889.
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On the eve of revolution a young woman fights for land, liberty, and the man she loves.
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On the eve of revolution a young woman fights for land, liberty, and the man she loves.
A stranger appears on Ana Martin’s Galveston doorstep, summoned by her father before his untimely death. When Ana boards a train bound for her uncle’s vast hacienda, Eduardo is there to see her safely to her new home in the stark desert landscape of northern Mexico.
Eduardo’s passionate ideals set him at odds with the corrupt Mexican government as his writings fuel a revolution and draw Ana closer. But it is Carlos, the dashing rodeo rider and freedom fighter, who touches her soul, setting Ana Martin on a journey that will test her strength and forge her destiny.
Emma Madding walks up to the door of a remote waterfront cliff house in upstate New York, and into the life of recluse Benjamin Stark. A typewriter girl, she is hired to transcribe his weathered journal and the memories his scarred hand can no longer write down. Stark is a rugged adventurer now back from the Klondike Gold Rush, where he found gold and tragedy, too.
With the public hungry for gold rush stories and guidebooks, he agrees to chronicle his adventures. But for Emma and Benjamin, working together draws emotions that neither can allow. Benjamin tries not to love Emma, for the truth of his past will drive her away. Emma longs for love, but she has her own secret. Love conquers, but cannot protect. Forced apart, the two lovers must battle a world fueled by money and power.
Coming Summer 2013
Duncan's Story
J.L.
Jarvis graduated from the University of Illinois and
worked in opera and musical theatre (New York City
Opera, Houston Grand Opera, national tours of Broadway
shows, and summer stock). When she tired of starving,
she attended the University of Houston, where she
obtained a teaching certificate, a law degree, and a
love of research and writing. A year of family law
practice convinced her that she should instead teach
and
write, which she now happily does.
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Me in another life.
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Adelita, illustration by Mexican painter Jesus Heguera.
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PlayPleasure it is to hear iwis, the birdès sing.
The deer in the dale, the sheep in...
I’m looking forward to reading this. I’m a Susanna Kearsley fan.
(via Historical romance crackles with imagination - Winnipeg Free Press)
Basic Fainting Technique
Once the gentleman has been manipulated into position, the lady may proceed with her intended mission. But whether the objective is to steal some secret prototype off his personage, or place a wooden hair stick through his heart, be certain it is done without wrinkling your dress.
This is very important.
Amanda Scott Historical Romance Virtual Book Tour, April 2 - May 3
Please join Amanda Scott as three of her historical romance novels, Dangerous Illusions, Border Bride and Highland Fling, are featured around the blogosphere from April 2-May 3.
I’m a big Amanda Scott fan. Her books are always a good read.
Beyond Bodice-Rippers: How Romance Novels Came to Embrace Feminism - Jessica Luther - The Atlantic
Beyond Bodice-Rippers: How Romance Novels Came to Embrace Feminism
The genre is known for promoting traditional gender roles, but a new generation of writers is challenging these conventions.
In A Lady Awakened, the heroine uses the hero for sex (Bantam)
“Bodice-rippers,” the most famous term associated with the romance genre are, according to the book Beyond Heaving Bosoms: “”typically set in the past, and the hero is a great deal older, more brutal, and more rapetastic than the heroine.” The heroines were young, virginal women whose purity was of paramount importance to their worth. The rapist-turned-true-love hero was a standard character.
Bodice-rippers and their contemporary counterparts were popular during the 1970s, occupying the same cultural space as the feminist movement but seeming to represent its polar opposite. As feminists were fighting patriarchy, romance novels were propping it up. Despite a major shift in the genre in the late 1980s and early 1990s that saw the near-disappearance of rape and the emergence of much stronger, more modern heroines, the idea remains that feminists and romance readers exist on opposite ends of the spectrum. This is not the case.
Inspired by College Humor’s funny punctuation marks, I made some for the romance-loving amongst us. I think we can all agree that we need a Darcy mark, at the least.
Oh, god, this is beautiful. The “Turgid Throbbing” and “Purple Prose” marks are ones that would LIVE on our blogs.
— The Wife
$2.99 Sale Sun & Mon—Because George and Abe would have loved a good highland romance.
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The Typewriter Girl is one of “Today’s Best eBook Covers” on Shelfbuzz! (I’m excited about it.)
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I would gladly give up modern comforts and face the dangers of the 18th century for Jamie Fraser!
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So I told him, if you really loved me, you would call me “Sassenach”… Apparently he wasn’t my Jamie Fraser after all.
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