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Julia Justiss and the Regency Rogue
by Anonymous on December 13th, 2007, 1:59pm
Historical author Julia Justiss discusses the appeal of the Regency Rogue and her latest title Rogue's Lady. Dangerously handsome, rakishly charming, sinfully seductive...no matter how you slice it, the Rogue is a mainstay of Regency fiction. Julia is here to tell us why we can't live with him...and can't live without him.
About the author:
Julia Justiss grew up breathing the scent of sea air near the colonial town of Annapolis, Maryland, a fact responsible for two of her lifelong passions: sailors and history!
After her marriage to a naval lieutenant, she wrote the newsletter for the American Embassy in Tunis, Tunisia, and traveled extensively in Europe. In Tunis, she also completed her first Regency novel, which fortunately never made it farther than the inside of her desk drawer.
But she learned from that work and kept reading between children and moving twelve times in ten years. When her husband left the navy to return to his Texas homeland, she began her second novel, discovered Romance Writers of America and built an English Georgian house in the piney woods of East Texas, where, when she closes her eyes, she can almost imagine she inhabits the world of Pride and Prejudice.
Reposting this for Hope....(Jayne)
How to Reform a Rake
Posted on January 14th, 2008, 5:32pm by Hope Chastain
I'm
hoping for some input on how to reform a rake realistically. (Half the
time in some Regencies I've read, I could tell it was only a matter of
time before the Hero went back to his old habits, leaving his wife to
die of a broken heart or else look for love elsewhere, which isn't my
idea of an ideal romantic situation.) The Hero in my current Regency
wip was so bad that one of the reviewers in the contest hated him on
sight! (In two chapters, I hadn't painted a very pretty picture of
him.) Do you have any thoughts on how I can make him bad without being
irredeemable? Thanks in advance!
"Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it." Oswald Chambers
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"We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh." ~ Agnes Repplier
I love rakes.
*dreamy sigh* Rakes are wonderful.
Just a quick update to let you all know that Julia is hopefully coming... soon. We set this up with her and now the email addy we have isn't working so we can't get her the link. We're working on it, though, so we're going to shoot for next week.
Thanks for your patience.
Dream... boldly going where no hosty has gone before.