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This reflects back to my earlier posts on romance novels…I’m working on McShannon’s Heart these days and thinking about the character of the hero, Martin Rainnie. Martin is a farmer in the Yorkshire Dales, a quiet, ...

The real Jennie Marsland was my maternal grandmother. This picture of her was taken when she was eighteen or nineteen, shortly after her marriage in the early 1930s. She grew up on a small farm in ...

I’ve been browsing through some romance forums lately and I’m seeing a lot of discussion about sex scenes in romance novels. If you read romance at all, it’s no secret that the trend is the hotter, ...

I’ve been spending some time on Pamela Clare’s website lately. In my opinion, her historical ‘MacKinnon’s Rangers’ series is fantastic. Anyway, she had a contest with autographed copies of Extreme Exposure, one of her romantic suspense ...

My first entry…well, I’ll start with the book. A year and a half ago, on a school camping trip, I found myself alone at the campsite.  Out of the blue, a character stepped from the September ...