Thank a Veteran

This has nothing to do with the Victorian Era but I think given the day, it’s important.
 
Today is Veteran’s Day or Armistice Day around the world. It celebrates the end of World War I (or The Great War) on November 11, 1918 at 11am: the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. [...]

Upstairs/Downstairs: The Lady’s Maid

In her best interest, the lady’s maid first priority was to study her mistress’ temper. The astute lady’s maid was keenly observant of the most minute changes in mood and disposition because only then could she step in with her services and become indispensible to her mistress.
Indispensability was the status every lady’s maid strived for. [...]

Kiss of Scandal

Yesterday my new book, Kiss of Scandal came out from Ravenous!
I love the Victorian Era, so much happening, changing, evolving. Course over the nearly seven decades that’s not surprising but that’s what makes it so fun! There were monarchs who wanted reform but couldn’t execute it, and monarchs who didn’t but hadn’t the choice. Trains, [...]

Upstairs/Downstairs: The Victorian Maid

This is a series of short blogs on the differences between the classes. From maids to the ladies they served, from merchant gentlemen to their valets. Yes, there are a lot of little positions, but I’ll generally cover them over the next few months.
The housemaid rises between 5 and 6:30 a.m. and accomplished many of [...]

Northern Roses and Southern Belles

Not your mother’s Civil War Romance…
Thanks Slip into Something Victorian for having me…I say tongue firmly planted in cheek. Yes, I’m a member of this group and blog, but my mother raised me to always be polite and thank my hostesses. J When our group of Victorian writers started talking about doing an anthology, I [...]

Release day!

Today, Northern Roses and Southern Belles is out from The Wild Rose Press in e-book and print. Six authors+Six blogs=Mayhem and Madness. I hope you’ll join us August 1-6 for our blog tour!
Calendar:
Saturday August 1: Isabel Roman is at Night Owl Romance
Sunday August 2: Jeanmarie Hamilton is at Petticoats & Pistols
Monday August 3: Susan Macatee [...]

Guest Blogger: Tanya Hanson

Please help me welcome romance author, Tanya Hanson to Slip into Something Victorian.  Don’t forget to leave a comment, she’ll be giving away an e-copy of her new release,  Marrying Minda.
Tanya, thank you so much for stopping by!  Thanks for inviting me! I’m a regular blogger at the terrific all-western site, Petticoats and Pistols, where [...]

The Civil War as you’ve never read it!

Our Scandalous Victorian anthology, Northern Roses and Southern Belles is coming out next week!
You can pre-order the print version here, it will also be available as an e-book. For more information, go to our blog.
We’re all really excited about it and have planned a blog tour for August. What’s a blog tour? Basically we’re [...]

Victorian mistresses

Madam Pompadour, we all know her name, she’s the famous or infamous mistress of Louis XIV the Sun King. Royal mistresses were popular, nearly every monarch had one. They were installed in lavish apartments with every amenity of their time available. This phenomenon of mistresses treated as near queens was exclusive to the royals for [...]

Research

This blog is very very late, and I apologize for that. Today’s topic in a shortened version is research. Historical, contemporary, fantasy, futuristic, research must be done.
If I want to write a story that has espionage, chases, murder, and romance that happened today and in London, I’d better know what I’m talking about. Research is [...]