Starting today, the Harlequin Historical Authors are hosting an on-line giveaway, as we did last year. There will be daily prizes and a chan...

Earlier this month, I was at an annual writers’ retreat, a highlight of my year. While there are always new attendees, many of us have been ...

In the book I'm writing now, there is a scene set in Hamley's Toy Shop, the original one in High Holborn, London. So I've been r...

Horace Walpole had his summer villa built between 1748 and 1790. Here, his love of the medieval is made manifest in every wall and window. T...

In the battle between e-readers and physical books, I’m firmly in both camps. I read both, avidly. That means I have any number of books wai...

I recently bought a new research book, Vauxhall Gardens: A History by David Coke and Alan Borg, a coffee-table sized volume brimming with e...

I was hoping to post a recipe for Irish soda bread, but so far I'm unsatisfied with the results of my experiments...so I'm falling ...

My heroines may wear medieval silks and furs, but I’m definitely a 21st century fashionista. When I want to escape my writing problems, I gr...

Valiant Soldier, Beautiful Enemy is in bookstores this month. This last book in my Three Soldiers series, takes place, in part, in Brussels...

This week I received a box full of advance copies of my latest book, "Gift-Wrapped Governesses", so thought I'd like to share ...

Last month, I spent a week on the Emerald Isle -- one day in Dublin and the rest visiting friends near Derry, in the north of Northern Ire...

As I am about to embark on a remodeling project, I’ve been thinking about how to (re)organize my books. Once upon a time, they WERE organiz...