Category: Georgette Heyer

A Convenient Marriage unplugged…

May 18, 2012

I have a need to concentrate on word-count for quite some time and please forgive me for re-publishing this https://pruebatten.com/2010/11/18/a-convenient-marriage-unplugged/

The Naxos audiotapes were wonderful and introduced me to Georgette Heyer who was a writer I had never bothered with previously. After finding her, I then found the refreshing and worthy Lucinda Brant and who has featured in Amazon’s Top 100 for a few weeks now. All in all, I owe Naxos a great deal!

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The Big Red Chair…

July 15, 2011

I started interviewing independent authors  in my Big Red Chair a little while ago. I began with the inestimable Ann Swinfen whose books are such a delightful discovery. I have interviewed SJA Turney whose Roman fiction is so full of imperial drama and life. Lucinda Brant has allowed herself to be scrutinised… she who could justifiably take up Georgette Heyer’s crown. And I have others to come:  hot property coauthors Mark Williams and Saffina Desforges and also Barbara Silkstone who is an electric author who thinks outside the square. That’s something I admire in a writer.

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#Amreading #Amwriting #Amediting

November 25, 2010

Please dear followers, excuse my lack of posts just lately.  Lots of reasons:

* Am reading. Rarely get the chance to read a lot and have read three books in last few days

* Am writing. Big spurt.  Ideas must be written down.

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A Convenient Marriage unplugged . . .

November 18, 2010

Do tell, my dears!  Has any one of you ever listened to a novel read by a darkly dangerous voice whilst driving?  I do not mean, my loves, in a chaise, or phaeton or similar elegant equipage.  I mean in a four wheel drive.  That is not to say, you understand, a four in hand.  A four in hand would be matched blacks, or greys, or even bays.  No.  Quite simply I mean an auto-mobile.  Terrifyingly and quite simply so.

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