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Tag: SHAPESHIFTERS

  • The Last Wednesday of May is Otter Day

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    In which I realise I don’t know anything about otters in this part of the world. Happy Otter Day! Who doesn’t love an otter, am I right? I am here to celebrate any animal every day, but when they have one all to themselves, I tend to push the boat out. Same with full moons…

  • Celebrate Our Apian Pals

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    Er, one day late. World Bee Day was 20 May. Yesterday, I got it together enough to make this lil graphic and post it on Facebook and Insta. Sorry, beloved blog! Remember when posting on blogs was the first port of call? Me too, blog, me too. So while the United Nations are falling down…

  • Regency Era Shapeshifters: A Lexicon

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    How did no one think to do this in the books?!?! Sooooo I’m working away on two new series, and it occurred to me that I hadn’t done this in The Shapeshifters of the Beau Monde. In my defense, no one else who laid eyeballs on it had thought to do so either. ‘This’ is…

  • The What, Why and Who of a ‘Regency’

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    Hmmm… where can we turn to find an example? That is George Augustus Frederick, Prince of Wales, eldest son of George III and Queen Charlotte. George III is famous for losing the American colonies, and sadly for suffering from mental illness, the contemporary diagnosis of which has been bipolar disorder. When a king is unable…

  • 10 Questions They Ask Everyone!

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    TVNow Magazine, that is. Here’s me in the hot seat. Soooo… if you click on the image it should get bigger and be actually readable? I followed some directions supplied by WordPress, sort of. The PDF itself doesn’t upload from the media library, but I’ve somehow created a link for the image? Ugh. Let me…

  • Happy Birthday, Felicity!

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    Oh, and… Happy Valentine’s Day, too. So, Valentine’s Day was A Thing in the Regency era, which was fun to find out. Alfred, Duke of Lowell, dismisses the entire undertaking as the work of printers looking to sell cards… hmmm, he’s not far wrong. As a wolf though, he should know better: Lupercalia was an…

  • Hello, Subscribers!

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    Here’s an email newsletter in the shape of a blog post. Happy end-of-January to all who celebrate. I had never had issue with the first month of the Gregorian calendar year until I moved to Ireland, and let me tell you, it hits different. I’d never lived so far north? So the deep, deep darkness…

  • Cutting My Coat…

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    …to suit my cloth! There’s a fashion revolution going on in A Wolf in Duke’s Clothing Not that I’m anti-headgear at all, and in fact, I love hats with all my heart and soul — but Miss Felicity Templeton never has occasion to adorn her noggin — well, not until a very special occasion. This…

  • Talk to the Animals

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    Up with anthropomorphism! A recent post on the Animal Rescue Site claims that people who talk to their pets are smart. Being a person who talks to any and all animals, pets or otherwise, I see no point in disputing this, because I am smart. Author Matthew Russell cites a study (here’s the link to…