I wasn't going to start blogging quite yet, but when the Daily Telegraph suggested this morning that I was not a Real Romantic Novelist, but merely a "Ringer" I realised that it was time to take some action.
I am a writer of historical fiction, as yet unpublished but that will change. I am currently working on a Romantic Regency Romp, James Bond meets Georgette Heyer, complete with fireworks and at least one elephant. If I had a good title for it I would tell you, but for the time being the file name is just "Regency".
My target is to complete and redraft the thing by the end of August at which point it goes off to the Romantic Novelists' Association's wonderful New Writers' Scheme where it will be read by somebody who knows what it takes to get published - Amanda Grange, or Elizabeth Hawksley, for instance.
But for now I will just end with another view of the event that started this blog off, this time as seen by The Times.
Stephen Bowden, now an e-published writer of Regency romps, ventures back into the Blogosphere.
9 comments:
Love the look of the blog! I met you briefly at the conference when you were offering julie C her motorbike experience. Well done on University Challenge.
Penny - I think that you are in exactly the right book. I'm sure that Felix either visited Astley's, or wanted to, particularly when he found that the Catch Me If You Can wasn't still in operation.
Nell - thanks for those kind remarks. Motorcycle rides, strictly for research purposes of course, will be available at Penrith next year, weather permitting.
Welcome to blogging, Stephan. You'll soon be addicted, promise.
I've just finished polishing up a Jane Austen inspired Regency caper which I hope Hale will publish. Just been thinking if I can describe it as x meets y, but actually it's pure Kate Allan, with a peppering of Jane Austen thrown in.
You realise that from Penrith you can take the famed Alston road up Hartside?
Arguably the most beautiful ride in England...
Anna Lucia - I knew that there were some good roads up there. Certainly better than out along the M4 and back in again on the A30 which was about the best route on offer from Egham.
There's some lovely juicy hairpins... in summer there are hundreds of bikers, like flocks of ninja butterflies.
Anna (also Scamans and ofCumberland)
Thanks for the mention, Stephen. My agent suggested I wrote a blog but I felt weak at the time and said I hadn't got time. I'm rather a lax correspondent at the best of time.
I look forward to reading your blog though.
I thought you should sue Giles Smith. You play a blinder, and The Times doesn't even give you a namecheck.
Sorry, that was signed "Harriet did not bat" in the preview, but for some reason Blogger decided to make me anonymous...
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