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Suzanne Enoch | A Mix of Classic Rom-Com in Jane Austen Style
Author Guest / September 20, 2023

1–What is the title of your latest release? EVERY DUKE HAS HIS DAY 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? LOL – I actually said it’s “Bringing Up Baby” done Jane Austen style. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I’ve written approximately 50 books now, and probably 45 of them have been set during the English Regency period. I just love that time period, and I’m not finished with it yet. 4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? If I wasn’t intensely introverted, I would love to hang out with Bitsy. She loves parties, friends, and dancing, and she’s very popular. I personally find her exhausting. 5–What are three words that describe your hero? Brilliant, Direct, Curious 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? I had to do a ton of research about science during the Regency. It was fascinating, some of the things that had been discovered. Somehow they’d already measured the speed of light, and Michael Faraday, on whom my Michael is very loosely based, had discovered that chlorine exists as a gas and a liquid, and had done a ton of electricity and elemental experiments. 7–Do…

Suzanne Enoch Interview – The Evolution of a Love Story
Author Guest / September 21, 2022

The relationship between the hero and heroine in your new book is different from most relationships I read about in historical romances. Emmeline and William Pershing have been married for eight years, but it was a marriage of convenience. Do you enjoy writing stories in which the hero and heroine have an established past rather than meeting for the first time? What has the dynamic been like between them for eight years? This is the first time I’ve written a story that deals with a marriage already eight years in. Just as a writing preference I love doing the “meet cute”, but for Something in the Heir I wanted to do more of exploration about what love is, exactly, and how you find it after you think it’s passed you by. I think this book is as much a book about love as it is about romance.   Because the birthday celebration necessitates fake children, there is a definite farcical element to SOMETHING IN THE HEIR. Do you enjoy a farce? Is it challenging to write? It’s definitely different tonally than I usually write. I went with the idea that love is insane, hilarious, and larger than life. My prep…

Miranda Owen | Fresh Fiction Reviewer Top Reads of 2019
Author Guest / December 20, 2019

Our reviewer retrospective continues with Miranda Owen‘s favorite books of this year!  I love making lists. At the end of a year, friends and fellow readers will post about their top favorite five or ten books of the year. I’m not configured that way. Trying to pick only five or ten favorite books out of the hundred or so I’ve read over the course of a year is unfathomable to me. Instead, I’ve picked about five or so titles in four different categories. Many of these selections fit a few of different categories listed here. I mostly read and review romances, but cozy mysteries are my jam too. Christmas-themed Romance Picks THE MATCHMAKER’S MISTLETOE MISSION by Jaci Burton A COWBOY UNDER THE MISTLETOE by Jessica Clare ONE HOT HOLIDAY by Cynthia Eden MEET ME UNDER THE MISTLETOE by Stacey Kennedy ONE CHRISTMAS EVE by Shannon Stacey There was a ridiculous amount of amazing Christmas-themed romances that came out this year, many of which came out at the end of October. The ones I’m discussing were my absolute favorites, but there were a bunch more that put a smile on my face. THE MATCHMAKER’S MISTLETOE MISSION by Jaci Burton and A…

Suzanne Enoch | Exclusive Excerpt: IT’S GETTING SCOT IN HERE
Author Guest / February 27, 2019

Prologue Once upon a time—in May 1785, to be exact—Angus MacTaggert, Earl Aldriss, traveled from the middle of the Scottish Highlands to London in search of a wealthy bride to save his well-loved but crumbling estate. Aldriss Park had been in the MacTaggert family since the time of Henry VIII, when Domhnall MacTaggert, despite being Catholic and married, declared publicly that Henry should be able to wed as many lasses as he wanted until one of them got him a son. Aldriss Park was the newly minted earl’s reward for his support and understanding. For the next two hundred years Aldriss thrived, until the weight of poor harvests, the ever-intruding, rule-making Sassenach, and the MacTaggerts’ own fondness for drinking, gambling, and wild investments (including an early bicycle design wherein the driver sat between two wheels; sadly, it had no braking mechanism and after a series of accidents nearly began a war within the MacTaggerts’ clan Ross) began to sink it into disrepair. When Angus inherited the title in 1783, he realized the old castle needed far more than a fresh coat of paint to keep it from both physical collapse and bankruptcy. And so he determined to go down among…