The Two Nerdy History Girls: Once More, with Feeling

Meena Jain, Library Director of the The Ashland Public Library, has invited Susan Holloway Scott and me to hold forth, once again. While the Two Nerdy History Girls blog is still there—and yes, I do go back to avoid reinventing the wheel on some topics—we stopped posting a few years ago. However, the historical nerdiness continues, and we expect to have plenty to talk about.

This will happen virtually

Wednesday 15 June at 7PM

Please register here to receive the zoom link and join the fun:

Program sponsored by the Friends of the Ashland Public Library and in partnership with the Medway Public Library. 

Miss Wonderful eBook now $1.99

Miss Wonderful, which starts my Carsington Brothers series, was my first book after a hiatus of several years It was a great joy to return to romance writing with a love story set in Derbyshire, home of the Peak (what we now call the Peak District), and a place I had visited a few years earlier. Plot elements as well as my hero were inspired by actual events, persons, and places, a great satisfaction to my nerdy history mind.

Readers of Pride and Prejudice will remember that Elizabeth Bennett’s planned trip to the Lake District was curtailed. Instead, she went to Derbyshire, where she discovered Mr. Darcy’s beautiful house and estate. There’s a great deal more to Derbyshire’s beauties* and potential for romance, as my book, I hope, will make clear.

T. Cartright, A View of the High Torr, Matlock, 1808 courtesy British Library

Meanwhile, if you haven’t yet met any of my Carsingtons, here’s your chance to start at the beginning, for a mere $1.99.

*And yes, the spelling is “Tor,” but spelling in the early 1800s was a little erratic.

"The Lion's Daughter" eBook for $0.99

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From now until 23 April, The Lion’s Daughter is included in the @AppleBooks historical romance collection, for 99¢. You’ll find it here, along with several other historical romances.

This was my first full-length historical romance, after half a dozen traditional Regencies. As far as I know, it’s the only historical romance set in Albania (partially). This book was intended to be part of a two-book set—once I realized that a certain character needed his own story. Somehow, the duo grew into what eventually became my five-book Scoundrels series.