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Publisher
Websites
Berkley
Books USA
eHarlequin Nth America
- the main website. Writers guidelines and writer and reader communities
Harlequin Mills and Boon,
UK - guidelines for M&B books, M&B historicals and medicals
Info
about Mills and Boon historicals. Contains a fairly comprehensive
list of every title since the line commenced. Stops at 2002, though.
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Writers
Organizations
Romance
Writers of America
Romance
Writers of Australia - excellent site with lots of interviews,
writing articles and other info.
Novelists
Inc.
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Fabulous
sites about the Regency period
Anne
Woodley's excellent Regency site. Will keep you occupied for
a week.
The Georgian Index
~ another site to keep you occupied for a week
The Regency Garderobe
~ a Repository of 19th Century Fashion Wisdom.
Laura Wallace's excellent
site. All about titles,
& other useful info, including food
in the regency
Excellent Jane Austen
site, with info about her life and times
Jane Austen Magazine
- some excellent info -- check their fashion articles. Wonderful.
Then go on to their history articles
The
Society of London Ladies favourite links.
Moonstone Research - regency
information galore
Regency Repository
- info and book sources
Regency
- contains dozens of links to regency sites
Regency fashion
and footwear
The Jane Austen Republic
of Pemberly. Lots of useful period information.
Jo Beverley's
excellent site. Includes Titles
, maps and
all sorts of interesting articles.
The Regency Page
- some excellent costume and other info
Jessamyn's
Regency Costume Companion
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Writing
advice
General websites for writing fiction:
Caro Clarke's
excellent writing advice
Alicia Rasley's
Writers' Corner - excellent.
The Writers' Store ~ zillions
of articles
The
Writing Corner
~ Romantic
Suspense, by Nora Roberts
The Fiction
Factor ~ nuts and bolts
Writing World
Submission nuts
and bolts
Holly
Lisle's Writing Pages - excellent
Comedy
Writing
Patricia
Kay's articles - excellent
The Fiction
Factor - all sorts of good articles
Sites
and articles on romance writing:
Romantic
Times - dozens of articles by published authors
Liz Fielding's excellent Opening
Chapter
Vicki
Hinze - Category or Single title?
Vanessa
Grant - Writing Romance
Patricia Kay's Scene and Sequel (& others)
Writers
Digest ~ on romance
~ The
Story by Nora Roberts
Cathy
Carmichael's Synopsis Workshop
Excellent
article about earning a living as a romance writer
Barbara
Samuel's columns. Not really writing tips, but she's such a
beautiful writer!
Barbara Hannay's
excellent article on "Emotional Punch" & others
Why
I write Romance - Diana Duncan
Bronwyn Jameson's
excellent writing tips
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Regency
Sites - specific information
Titles
- an excellent, easy-to-understand introduction to the British Titles
of nobility system by Jo Beverley
Correct
Form - correct forms of address for English titles
The Peerage-
genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain
The Peerage
- Surname index
Burke's
Peerage - searchable databases
Irish
Peerage
The Royal
Houses of Europe
English
Country dancing
Almacks
-- a brief history
Almacks
-- a longer history
Dances
Gentlemen's
clubs
Historical card
games
More historical
card games & rules
Gaming - Card
games. Cara King's site
Duelling - Cara
King's site
Victorian
era courtship
A
variety of Victorian era articles
Leigh's
Picture of London 1819
London Parks and
Pleasure Gardens
Vauxhall Gardens
Vauxhall
Gardens History
Vauxhall
info & pics
Astley's
Amphitheatre
Carriages
of the Regency period
Vehicles with
illustrations
Roads, turnpikes
etc
Julia Ross's Horses
in Romance
Sidesaddle
- parts of
Riding
habits
More riding
habits - from Candice Hern
What's for Breakfast?
Fashion in Regency times
- click on "fashion"
Costume
Encyclopaedia
Play
the costume game - dress a lady
Bath Museum of Costume
The
Costumer's Manifesto
Historical Costume - La
Couturiere Parisienne
Vintage
Textiles
Candice
Hern's Collections - esp. accessories
Shawls
Corsets - From
Kalen Hughes.
Regency undies. - From Kalen Hughes.
Regency
wedding dresses
Regency Accessories
The etiquette
of wearing gloves
Masquerade
dominos
Rundell & Bridge
- jewllery and art exhibition
Regency
Christmas - Jo Beverley article
English plants
- Calendar of flowering times
Smugglers website
Housewifery
text on-line
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Regency
Sites - specific information
English Currency
in the 1th Century
Understanding English Money
Money
Slang - slang associated with money
London Metropolitan
Police History site
London,
social context of crime
Bow Street
Historical article on Bow
Street Runners
Devon
Cornwall Police
Bridewell
Prison
Workhouses
Child
Labour and Factory workers
Food and Drink
in Regency England
History
of coffee in UK
History
of chocolate in Europe:
History of tea
Georgian ices - Gunters, etc. Yummy pics.
Historic Food
- food, recipes, methods
Victorian
Era London
Historical map
of the counties of England
Greenwood's 1827
Map of London
Richard
Horwood's map of London
Digital Library
of Historical Directories
The National Trust
UK historic buildings
The Landmark Trust
~ historic buildings
Inns
and Taverns of Old London
Picture
of London 1819 ~ various descriptions
British
Postal History
A
Crossed Letter and more postal history
The Military System
in the Regency era - click on "history" and then "military"
War Times Journal
- Napoleonic war
Regiments - regiments
of the British Army
Dragoon
Regiments & Uniforms
The
95th Rifles
Napoleonic website
History
Trail - useful articles on war
The
Minerva Press - what regency ladies read
British
India - British India in the 18th C.
Regency
Interiors - also includes other eras
Regency
Furniture
The
Anglican Church Hierarchy
1811
Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue - Historical Slang
Historical language
note - a list of clangers found in historical novels
Slang
and cant - on-line dictionary
Images of locations
Background
to Hogarth's engravings "Gin Lane" and "Beer
Street"
Images of Sussex
Shazza's
photos of Bath
Images of England
- searchable image db
Pictures of England
- another searchable db
St George's
Church, Hanover Square
Great
Houses in the UK and Ireland
English Heritage
site
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Historical
romance authors
Georgette
Heyer -- the queen and originator of the regency romance. Superb
Mary Balogh ~ wonderful
regency era romances.
Sara Bennett ~ historicals
& paranormals
Jo Beverley
~ Georgian-era historicals & articles
Anna Campbell ~ "Regency
noir"
Loretta Chase ~ a regency
star.
Nicola Cornick
~ regency historicals
Eloisa
James ~ a lovely writer
Laura Kinsale ~ wrote
my #1 favorite romance
Stephanie Laurens
~ those gorgeous Cynsters
Mary Jo Putney ~ one
of my favorite writers.
Isolde Martyn ~ suberbly
researched historicals
Julia
Quinn ~ feel-good regencies
Elizabeth Rolls ~ (aka
Elizabeth Rollsova in Czech) she writes regencies with fab research
Alison Stuart ~ Roundheads
& Cavaliers
Christine Wells ~ Regency
historicals
Bronwyn Williams ~ wrote
some of my best keepers!
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Contemporary
Romance Authors
Ally Blake ~ fun, feel-good
stories
Lilian Darcy ~ intense
, intelligent medicals and ST
Liz Fielding ~ wonderful,
feel-good romances.
Barbara Hannay ~ yummy
outback heroes & articles
Kelly Hunter -- funny,
sexy stories
Bronwyn Jameson ~ gogeous
outback heroes & writing tips
Marion Lennox ~ never-fail
feel-good romances.
Yvonne Lindsay ~ yummy
heroes
Anne McAllister ~ fabulous
romances.
Fiona McArthur ~ a fabulous
medical author
Trish Morey ~ gorgeous sexy
alpha (AFL?) heroes
Jane Porter ~ sexy romances
with Alpha heroes.
Paula Roe ~ new Desire author
with a fab links page
Barbara
Samuel ~ lush, gorgeous prose
Annie West - the yummiest
sheiks
Sophie Weston ~ warm,
romantic & witty.
Paranormals & erotica
Keri Arthur ~ sexy dark
urban fantasy
J.R.Ward ~ I never thought
I could love vampires!
Denise Rossetti ~ Fantasy
erotica
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Online
interviews I've done
some
interviews 2009
Mary
Jo Putney interviewed me about TO CATCH A BRIDE
I also visited Romance
Writers Revenge where I talked about writing to the Dread Pirate
Hellion, with interruptions from Cap'n Jack Sparrow.
I was interviewed in the EleniFest
about writing and some RWAust activities.
Interviews of 2008
Mary Jo Putney interviewed me on the Word
Wenches Blog,
I talked to the Romance
Vagabonds.
I was interviewed by my friend Anna
Campbell on the Romance
Bandits blog.
Writerspace
(September 2002)
Romance
Writers of Australia (March 2002)
The
Romance Journal (March 2001)
A
Romance Review (December 2001)
All About Romance
(May 2001)
I've
also interviewed several other authors on the Romance
Writers of Australia Website.
Interview with Barbara
Hannay
Interview with Bronwyn
Jameson
Interview with Isolde
Martyn and another chat with
Isolde Martyn
Interview/article where multi published authors tell how they keep
their writing fresh
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Online
reviews of my books:
(In
dire need of updating...)
Gallant Waif:
The
Romance Reader
All About Romance
My Shelf
Tallie's Knight
The
Romance Reader
All About Romance
A
Romance Review
An Honourable Thief
A
Romance Review
The Best Reviews
How the Sheriff was Won
Romantic
Times
A
Romance Review
The Virtuous Widow (novella)
The
Romance Reader
Romantic
Times
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Literacy
links
The
Beach - a free literacy / ESL learning site with puzzles and
interactive exercises and interesting stories.
PageTurners
- the entertaining, easy-reading stories for adults just beginning
to read, which feature wonderful cartoons drawn by Moira Hanrahan.
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Blogs
& Other links
Stephen
Bowden's "Wenlock"
blog - very funny. Check out his "Heyeroines in need of a slap!"
Miss Snark's Blogspot
-- she's a literary agent and she has a series on her blog where
she comments on synopses sent to her. Great stuff.
Bron
Jameson's Blog - Australian Desire author. Great chatty blog.
Jennifer Crusie's Blog
Regency
Top 100 Poll - readers voted for their top 100 regency reads
All
About Romance, Top 100 poll, 2004- hundreds of readers voted
for their romance favorites
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