So you know how Stella has been engaged to George Barrington since the end of Guinevere’s Revenge? Well, in Stella 4, The Princess and the Peonies, they finally cross the finish line. In more ways than one. But don’t let me spoil it for you. How about a sneak peek at Chapter 1? _____________________________________________________ StellaContinue reading “The Princess and the Peonies – sneak peek!”
Category Archives: historical romance
The Hips of the Eel – Slang in the 1920s
One of the most fun things about writing Stella Hart is her dialogue. She’s a classic, F. Scott Fitzgerald-style New York flapper working in Hollywood as a silent movie actress and running around the globe solving murders with her hunky love interest, George Barrington, 13th Baronet of Kingsley-on-Pike. And she talks like a party girlContinue reading “The Hips of the Eel – Slang in the 1920s”
The Passion of Miss Cuthbert
I have a new book out. It’s called The Passion of Miss Cuthbert, and it’s the second in my series of romantic mysteries starring amateur detective Stella Hart. Stella is a silent movie actress in the 1920s whose stepfather owns an English manor house. Her fiancé and partner in crime-solving is George Barrington, Thirteenth BaronetContinue reading “The Passion of Miss Cuthbert”
Lucy’s Halloween Bedtime Story: Dead-Sperado
Guess what, kittens? I’m on the YouTubes! My Evil Genius hubby and my publisher rallied around and helped me do a recording of myself reading “Dead-Sperado,” the first story from my comic weird western romance collection, Bury Me Not. In it, saloon dove Daisy means to seduce and detain the dreaded outlaw Elbert Cade until theContinue reading “Lucy’s Halloween Bedtime Story: Dead-Sperado”
WIP: The Adventuress and Her Monsters
Heya Kittens! Since my real life is boring as the summer winds down, I thought y’all might prefer a sneak peek at my current work-in-progress (aka the thing I’m escaping into lately). It’s a a true gothic romance set in late-Victorian England, and the heroine is an American heiress doing the husband-hunting tour. And sheContinue reading “WIP: The Adventuress and Her Monsters”
My Heroes Have Sometimes Been Cowboys
The first grown-up movie I ever saw in a theater was The Cowboys, starring John Wayne. It came out in 1972, so I would have been eight years old. My dad has always been a die-hard Wayne fan (oh, the raging fights we’ve had about McClintock!), and in those days, first-run movies didn’t hang aroundContinue reading “My Heroes Have Sometimes Been Cowboys”
Because I need distraction, and maybe you do, too.
This has been an awful week, and now that I’ve expressed my outrage until I’m sick of the sound of my own voice, I’m looking around for things to make me forget reality entirely. I wrote my latest, Guinevere’s Revenge, in exactly that spirit. It’s an extremely light-hearted romantic mystery–Agatha Christie plus P.G. Wodehouse minusContinue reading “Because I need distraction, and maybe you do, too.”
The Viking and the Witch – Chapter Seven
Two days into the voyage, the girl fell ill from her wounds. By late afternoon, she had fallen into a delirious stupor, and by nightfall, she was completely unconscious. Asmund’s men said nothing, but he caught them exchanging glances. He knew they hadn’t forgotten Stian’s warning that Maeve was a witch. If she had beenContinue reading “The Viking and the Witch – Chapter Seven”
The Viking and the Witch – Chapter 5
Over the next few days, Asmund put all of his returning strength to repairing the broken boat. At first the barbarian girl, Maeve, just watched him from the cliff when she wasn’t busy with her own work. But at midday on the second day, she brought him food and stayed, still watching at first, thenContinue reading “The Viking and the Witch – Chapter 5”
The Viking and the Witch – Chapter 4
Asmund woke up naked and alone. He opened his eyes to a patch of blue sky through a hole in the roof of a tiny hut. He could hear the roar of the sea and the screams of gulls and ravens. He felt hot but not feverish; someone had covered him with blankets heContinue reading “The Viking and the Witch – Chapter 4”
Lucy Blue Writes 