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Victory Summer by Dawn Lindsay (published 1981). This one draws from the plot of Persuasion, my favorite Jane Austen novel: about love lost and regained after many years.
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Ruth Axtell
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Ruth has loved regencies ever since she read Pride and Prejudice and discovered Georgette Heyer in her high school years. Everything from the wit of the dialogue, the formality of the courtship and the variety of hero types draws her to this genre of romance. She will have a single title regency out in March 2013 for Baker/Revell Books and an Americana historical for Moody Publishers. Her books have been translated into Dutch, Italian, Polish, Czech and Afrikaans. She was a Golden Heart finalist in 1994. Her second published book, Wild Rose, was a Booklist “Top Ten Christian Fiction” selection in 2005. She is a member of ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers), RWA (Romance Writers of America), HisWriters and Maine RWA. Ruth studied comparative literature at Smith College with a concentration in French and English literature, and spent her junior year in Paris. Since then she has lived in the Netherlands and the Canary Islands. Shortly after college, she committed her life to Christ. Fourteen years later, she committed her writing to Him. Currently, Ruth lives on the down east coast of Maine with her three children and two cats. She enjoys the challenge of vegetable and flower gardening in a cool, foggy climate, long walks, reading, watching British period dramas like Downton Abbey, and doing historical research for her novels. | |
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| Favorite Regency Food: | Oysters or Roast Goose | |
| Favorite Regency Setting: | Mayfair | |
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Victory Summer by Dawn Lindsay (published 1981). This one draws from the plot of Persuasion, my favorite Jane Austen novel: about love lost and regained after many years. |
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Laurie Alice Eakes
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Since she discovered Georgette Heyer books at the age of fourteen, Laurie Alice Eakes has been in love with the fashion and foibles of the Regency era. When she decided to write herself, she turned to the Regency for her time period. Family Guardian, her first book, won the National Readers Choice Award for Best Regency in 2007. In the past three years, she has sold six books to Baker/Revell, five of which are set during the Regency time period, four books to Barbour Publishing, as well as two novellas to Barbour Publishing and one to Baker/Revell. Six of her books have been picked up by Thorndike Press for large print publication, and Lady in the Mist, her first book with Revell, was chosen for hardcover publication with Crossings Bookclub. She also teaches on-line writing courses and enjoys a speaking ministry that has taken her from the Gulf Coast to the East Coast. Laurie Alice lives in Texas with her husband, two dogs and two cats, and is learning how to make tamales. The Regency is a time when society is poised on the edge of leaving the old world behind and launching into the new world. The tension between class and industry, mores and morals, philosophy and faith sets my imagination alight. | |
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| Favorite Books | Sanguinet’s Crown by Patricia Veryan. The last in a series, this story holds all the elements of Regency social mores with high adventure, intrigue, and, above all, romance. Mitchell and Charity are two physically and emotionally damaged people who are the strongest hero and heroine I’ve read about. Despite overwhelming odds, they get done what needs to get done. | |
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Kristi Ann Hunt
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Kristi Ann Hunt lives on the south side of Atlanta with her youth minister husband and three wonderful children. She is active in the church alongside her husband and spends a little too much time on the computer. She discovered the romance of the regency time period in college and never looked back. Initially drawn by the humor, wit, and transitionality of the period, she also loves the clothes, the horses, and the atmosphere. Writing snuck up on her without warning after a short career in computer programming. She is currently seeking publication and maintains a blog where the readers contribute to the plot of a free online story. You can learn more about Kristi by visiting AmeliasDrawingRoom.blogspot.com. | |
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| Favorite Books | I Iove Julia Quinn. If I have to pick an actual favorite it would probablybe It's In His Kiss or The Lost Duke of Wyndham. | |
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Susan Karsten
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Aspiring writer, home-educating
mom of 3 teens with a realtor husband in small-town Wisconsin.
I do public speaking, have a degree in apparel design, am a nationally award-winning home-educator. I have two Works-in-Progress, a Regency, and a Middle Grade Fiction book. I am drawn to Regency, because of Jane Austen's books, and I enjoying reading about the structure of courtship and society in general portrayed in the genre. |
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| Favorite Regency Food: | Ices at Gunther's | |
| Favorite Regency Setting: | Country estate house party | |
| Favorite Books | "A Matter of Class" by Mary Balogh, anything by Marion Chesney (M.C. Beaton) | |
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Tammy Kirby
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Tammy Kirby has been reading and writing Christian fiction for more than thirty years. She has a degree in Registered Nursing and has completed two creative writing courses at LA Tech University and two fictional writing classes online. She is a member of ACFW and LA-CFW. She belongs to three critique groups. At present she is the Emergency Room Director at a rural hospital in Columbia, LA. |
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Sarah Ladd
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Sarah Ladd lives in Indiana and shares her life with her amazing husband and sweet daughter. She had more than ten years of strategic marketing and brand management experience, including five years of marketing non-fiction books and three years of marketing the musical arts. |
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| Awards | Sarah won the 2011 ACFW Genesis Award for Historical Romance. | |
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Naomi Rawlings
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mother of two young boys, Naomi Rawlings spends her days picking up, cleaning,
playing, and of course, writing. Her husband pastors a small church in
Michigan's rugged Upper Peninsula, where her family shares it's ten wooded acres
with black bears, wolves, coyotes, deer, and bald eagles. Naomi and her family
live only three miles from Lake Superior, and while the scenery is beautiful,
the area averages 200 inches of snow per winter. Naomi writes bold, dramatic
stories containing Passionate Words and Powerful Journeys. I love the intense, highly structured world of Regency romance. Our society today is so free, throwing off a lot of structure. I enjoy giving my characters a list of rules so long it makes one’s eyes role backward, and then giving my characters a problem to which they respond as human beings we can relate to today, despite the strictures they face. |
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Anything I don’t have to make myself. That’s why there were cooks back then, right? |
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I really find England’s international relations during that period fascinating. They were huge fans of declaring war and using their navy to bully the rest of the world into submission. As far as a favorite setting, I would say anything set half in England and half in a country they were at war with, like America or France. Make one of the main characters English and the other from one of the warring countries, and I’ll fall in love with the story. |
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Joanna Bourne’s “The Black Hawk.” It’s general market, so be aware there’s some bedroom scenes, but it features a French spy heroine and English spy hero who have been in love for over a decade while their countries are at war. Talk about some conflict! It’s so wonderful to see the hero and heroine finally get together despite everything that stands in their way. |
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Naomi was an ACFW 2011 Genesis Contest Finalist. |
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Vanessa Riley
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Even as I pursued my
engineering degrees, my love of 19th century history yielded a hunger to take as
many Western Civilization credits as possible (two classes shy of a minor). I adore
Regency times with its conflicts between Church and State, the clash of the
classes, and the sweeping romances. My mission is to have the world fall in love
with powerful Regency heroes and heroines who battle for peace with a flintlock
and a prayer.
I'm a member of ACFW, RWA, and the Beau Monde. |
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| Favorite Regency Food: | Fruited Cake with Bliss Icing | |
| Favorite Regency Setting: | Devonshire or Hampshire Estates | |
| Favorite Books | Debra Raleigh's A Proper Marriage | |
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First Place, Inspirational, 2011 Unpublished Beacon Writing Contest Third Place, 2011 Show Me the Spark Writing Contest Finalist, Orange Rose Competition |
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Jessica Snell
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I'm an Anglican, a wife, and a mother of
four. My husband and I are missionary kids who grew up in Indonesia and the
sub-Arctic respectively, and now make our lives in sunny southern California. The conflict in Regency society between its extremely rigid social roles and its rapidly changing culture (due to both war and industrial revolution) is what fascinates me about the era. How do we keep the good things of the past while welcoming the good things of the future? A good romance leads to marriage, and marriage is all about taking who we were in the past and making ourselves into someone new ("the two shall become one flesh") and so I think that the struggle towards cultural synthesis in the Regency period make an excellent setting for the dynamic forces involved in any romance. I'm currently working on a novel set in the chaos directly following the failure of the Peace of Amiens. When war breaks out again between England and France, my heroine finds herself on the wrong side of the Channel and in order to have any hope of making it home, she's going to have to trust the hero not just with her life, but with her honor. |
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| Favorite Regency Food: | Ices at Gunter's! | |
| Favorite Regency Setting: | A picnic in the country, in some of the beautiful settings near Salisbury. | |
| Favorite Books | Sylvester, by Georgette Heyer. In some romances, only the heroine goes on a journey that changes her, but in this book both the heroine and the hero have to face who they are, what they've done, and decide who it is they want to be. Bonus points for for including not just a journey of the heart, but also a journey that takes the main characters all across England, over the Channel, through France, and back again! There isn't a dull moment in the whole novel | |
