Rose Lerner's Blog, page 24
July 14, 2014
Contest: fourpack of signed books!
Hi everyone! Every year at RWA I buy signed books to give away. Well, RWA is next week, and somehow I’ve got four books left. So! This month’s winner gets all four! Assassin’s Gambit by Amy Raby. I have heard really great things about this book! Vitala Salonius, champion of the warlike game of Caturanga, […]
Published on July 14, 2014 14:39
June 27, 2014
New cover for True Pretenses!
EEEEE, the cover’s been finalized for True Pretenses (Lively St. Lemeston #2, coming in January 2015)! I love it SO MUCH OMG OMG OMG. And doesn’t that guy remind you a little of David Duchovny? Through wit and sheer force of will, Ash Cohen has raised himself and his little brother Rafe out of the […]
Published on June 27, 2014 14:22
June 3, 2014
Spoiler-friendly “In for a Penny” discussion post
Hi everyone! This is a spoiler-friendly discussion and questions post for In for a Penny. I’d love to hear anything you have to say about the book! And if there’s anything you want to ask me (about the book, about writing the book, about characters in the book, about what happens next, anything really), go […]
Published on June 03, 2014 17:54
May 21, 2014
New contest: IN FOR A PENNY e-books, and a gift basket!
My debut In for a Penny re-releases on June 3rd! Lord Nevinstoke revels in acting the young wastrel, until his father is killed in a drunken duel. Never one to do anything halfway, Nev throws off his wild ways to shoulder a mountain of responsibility—and debt—vowing to marry a rich girl and act the respectable […]
Published on May 21, 2014 11:54
May 14, 2014
Blog trade with Heather Rose Jones! “Roadblocks to Romance: Writing in Dialogue with Austen and Heyer”
To celebrate reaching 100 Twitter followers, Heather Rose Jones offered a choice of blog topic to the 99th and 100th. One of the winners, Ursula W., noting that two of her friends both wrote Regency-era romances, requested a blog trade. When Heather suggested each discussing how our stories interact with Heyer, especially in regards to […]
Published on May 14, 2014 14:34
April 29, 2014
SWEET DISORDER short story: taking suggestions!
Hi everyone! When my first book, In for a Penny, was released, I asked for suggestions from readers for a free short story set in the world of the book. The result was this fun “five times” story (contains spoilers for the book!). When A Lily Among Thorns came out, I did the same thing—but […]
Published on April 29, 2014 21:21
April 18, 2014
DFH Interview #7: Courtney Milan
As part of my blog tour for Sweet Disorder, I wrote a guest post at Heroes and Heartbreakers about the tradition of widows and dead first husbands in historical romance. For that post, I interviewed the authors of some of my favorite historicals with widow heroines, and I got back such awesome, detailed answers that […]
Published on April 18, 2014 07:00
April 16, 2014
DFH interview #6: Lauren Willig
As part of my blog tour for Sweet Disorder, I wrote a guest post at Heroes and Heartbreakers about the tradition of widows and dead first husbands in historical romance. For that post, I interviewed the authors of some of my favorite historicals with widow heroines, and I got back such awesome, detailed answers that […]
Published on April 16, 2014 07:00
April 14, 2014
DFH interview #5: Tessa Dare
As part of my blog tour for Sweet Disorder, I wrote a guest post at Heroes and Heartbreakers about the tradition of widows and dead first husbands in historical romance. For that post, I interviewed the authors of some of my favorite historicals with widow heroines, and I got back such awesome, detailed answers that […]
Published on April 14, 2014 07:00
April 11, 2014
DFH interview #4: Cecilia Grant
As part of my blog tour for Sweet Disorder, I wrote a guest post at Heroes and Heartbreakers about the tradition of widows and dead first husbands in historical romance. For that post, I interviewed the authors of some of my favorite historicals with widow heroines, and I got back such awesome, detailed answers that […]
Published on April 11, 2014 07:00