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'THE ABANDONED BRIDE' INSIDER NEWS


Sometimes all I have to hear is a word or a hint of a suggestion, and a book takes shape and flows. Sometimes, all it takes is a challenge.

I was told there was no way anyone would publish a Regency Romance that dealt with homosexuality. (This was 1985, remember, and a decade ago is a generation ago in our generation). I was told writing such a book would be an exercise in futility. Of course, I had to try. I went to the history books. It turned out people living in the Regency era felt the same way.

Homosexuality was a crime - a capital offense in those days. But it was only the poor and unconnected that were actually hanged for it.

I had to write the ABANDONED BRIDE. Signet was brave enough to publish it.

I treated the subject carefully. I think it worked. I'd write it no differently now. I think it's not the subject matter but the amount of subtlety used in dealing with the subject that marks a Regency novel. Do you agree?

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