There is nothing quite as satisfying for an author as to write THE END
on a current work-in-progress as I have now done with His Unexpected Muse, Book 3 in my
Berkeley Square Regency romance series.
When I started writing Book 1, I had no idea that it would expand beyond
that. It wasn’t even Book 1 at that point, just an idea for a stand-alone
Regency romance. My heroine in that book is Emmeline Devereux, whose best friend Lady Juliana intruded at every opportunity
but
that’s what happens when characters almost jump off the page and demand their
own books.
Okay,
okay. Not literally, of course. It’s just one of those quirky writer’s
When
that book was finished, and believing I had done with those characters, I
started thinking about what else I could write. However, a reader query asking
if Lady Rosemary Darnley, the villainess in Book 1, ever got her comeuppance,
started me on another path which led to His Unexpected Muse, Book 3. This
involves the unexpected (as the title suggests) romance between Lady Olivia
Darnley (Rosemary’s daughter) and Lord Peter Skeffington.
Olivia
and Peter, both characters from Book 1, are very different from the rest of the
cast. Olivia is shy and retiring and Peter is painfully aware of his tall and very
slender physique, nothing at all like your regular nonpareil Regency beau. How
these two characters fall into romance was a very different path to take from
that of Emmaline and Juliana, who were both pretty feisty females.
I am
already at work plotting a new Regency series and am looking forward to meeting
some new characters and telling their stories. But, for a few weeks at least, I’m
going to enjoy kicking back and catching up on books on my To Be Read list.
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Always interesting when this happens.
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