Category: NEWSLETTER
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Dog Days of Summer
(Animal idioms are everywhere) When I was trying to put words on my current malaise, the above sprang to mind without hesitation. Then, I had to find out where it came from, then I thought I’d look up why so many of our figures of speech have to do with fauna, and down the rabbit…
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10 Questions with Susanna Allen
As seen in TVNow for the debut of A Duke at the Door! So yeah! 10 Questions We Ask Everybody is a feature in one of Dublin’s television magazines. Dare I say, best television magazine. (I dare.) I was thrilled to participate, please enjoy. That embarrassing moment still makes all my internal organs tie up…
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A Whole New (Previously Published) World
In which I announce a re-re-release, complain, and bow before the independently publishing authors who have gone before me.
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Want to Know Basis
This whole author thing isn’t what I expected… I was working with a photographer once, back in the day when I was the design director of a music magazine, and he mentioned how much he loved doing author photos. “Really?” I said. “I actually never care about what an author looks like.” And added, no…
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Why Choose?
A reader writes and a writer responds. It’s hard to keep track of my correspondence as there are so many ways to get in touch. Insta DM? Facebook PM? The contact page on my website?* A reader wrote to say how much they enjoyed The Shapeshifters of the Beau Monde series and that Tabitha and…
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Every Day is Valentine’s Day
(when you let it pass you by and you go oops) Writing historical romance is fun, and by fun I mean: am I being anachronistic in making Valentine’s Day into A Thing in the Regency Era? Especially when I’ve decided that 14th February would be a great day for my FMC to celebrate her birthday? Cue…
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International Animal Rights Day
…is today, 10 December! Well, I mean, I was always going to default to my top three alphas, right? I was also going to start this off by writing, ‘Apropos of nothing, I was thinking about horses’, but I am always thinking about horses, so I guess that is ‘apropos of something’? So I was…
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Anatomy of a Narrative
In which I tell a story about telling a story… Without telling too much of the story itself! It’s almost time for my annual Christmas holiday to the States to hang with fam and friends for the perfect number of weeks (I have this down to a science at this stage). Every year I say…
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