Category Archives: historical fiction

Kate Pearce Guest Post: The Regency versus The Victorian

Posted on May 4, 2009 by Victoria Janssen

The Regency versus The Victorian Every so often I get mail or reviews that comment on what my characters get up to in my Regency-set erotic romances. Usually the comments suggest that no one in the Regency period would know … Continue reading →

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Guest post tomorrow! And Wolverine….

Posted on May 3, 2009 by Victoria Janssen

Stop by tomorrow for a guest post on mores in the Regency period versus the Victorian period from historical erotica author Kate Pearce. http://www.katepearce.com/ Me, I’ll be reading Kate’s post and then running off to see the new Wolverine movie.

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Evangeline Adams Guest Post – Writing African-American Romance

Posted on May 2, 2009 by Victoria Janssen

Please welcome my guest, Evangeline Adams! # A year ago, after thinking I would write only historical romance, that I could never, ever in my life write a contemporary romance, ideas for contemporaries popped into my head like a stack … Continue reading →

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Historical Detail in Fiction

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Victoria Janssen

I’ve been putting together my thoughts on how I include history in novels, for example the World War One detail in Moonlight Mistress. The first thing is to create a sense of normality. The characters do ordinary things in an … Continue reading →

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Synergy in Writing and Research

Posted on February 23, 2009 by Victoria Janssen

A good thing about writing several novels one after the other is that it becomes easier to notice patterns in the way one works. Some things I learned are generally applicable. For example, this time I know stretches of rough … Continue reading →

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