Thank you, readers!

To all the readers who helped make the Ashland Public Library’s recent Romance Swag Auction a great success:

THANK YOU!

My set of books did amazingly well. Thanks to your generosity, it earned one of the highest bids. In a field that included so many of our finest romance authors, that is no small achievement. I’m honored and grateful.

The Ashland Public Library of Ashland, Massachusetts has been a great friend to romance, hosting and co-hosting our recent RomCons, among other events. You can expect another RomCon in the spring, and you can expect to see me there. Please watch this space for more.

And in other news, the third Difficult Dukes book continues to proceed—at my usual slow pace, as opposed to the previous year or two or however many it’s been when it didn’t really proceed at all, but wasted a lot of my time pretending it was doing so. Fingers crossed we make it to the finish line by the year’s end.

Talking to Jenny in New Zealand

A short time ago, I spent a most enjoyable time talking to Jenny, for a Joys of Binge Reading Podcast. She was in New Zealand. I was in the U.S., in Massachusetts. As an ancient relic of the 20th century, I continue to marvel at how easy it is now to have chats like these with readers, bloggers, and podcasters around the world. Just push a couple of buttons et voilà!

In a short time, we covered quite a bit of ground, from my early career to current work, inspiration sources, research, and more. (Jenny had clearly done quite a bit of her own research—into my books and career—in advance.) We also talked about how much I choose to include or exclude in the smoochies department.

The podcast is now live at the Joys of Binge Reading site, where Jenny has also very thoughtfully provided links to the people and topics we covered. You can access it here.

Or, you can watch here on YouTube.

And here’s a two minute clip to sample.

Tecomanthe speciosa, a native plant of New Zealand

Jenny, thank you for being such a gracious host and excellent interviewer!

Lights, Camera, Auction!

To raise funds for the Ashland Public Library, more than fifty romance writers are offering books and other tempting articles for an online auction. Once again I find myself in a stellar cast of authors. If you click on this link, you’ll see what I mean.

The auction runs from 8pm (ET) Wednesday 11 October to 8pm (ET) Wednesday 18 October.

My contribution is a collection of autographed books, as listed in the text and shown in the graphic below.

The first two Difficult Dukes (the third is still being written but there’s light at the end of the tunnel): A Duke in Shining Armor and Ten Things I Hate About the Duke.

All of the Dressmakers series: Silk Is For Seduction, Scandal Wears Satin, Vixen in Velvet, and Dukes Prefer Blondes.

And, rounding up the usual suspect, Lord of Scoundrels.

You will find all the wonderful details here on the main auction page. The Loretta Chase page is here.