by Jude Knight | May 8, 2017 | Coffee, Books & a Blog
Okay, I get it. ‘Duke’ and ‘Billionaire’ are shorthand for ‘rich, hot, and powerful’. But I’m cursed (or possibly blessed) with a literal mind, and I know how few dukes there have been in England in any one time. How few of...
by Jude Knight | May 8, 2017 | Coffee, Books & a Blog
As I wrote in a blog post recently, I like my heroes to be decent men, and I think readers like that too. We see a lot of so-called rakes and scoundrels in historical fiction, but before long we find that they have a motive to pretend bad behaviour, or their bad...
by Jude Knight | May 8, 2017 | Coffee, Books & a Blog
One of the comforting things about romance is that we know the couple will end up alive and together, walking off arm and arm into a brighter future. Which is a good thing when writers like me put our poor characters into ghastly situations. Romances are part of the...
by Jude Knight | May 8, 2017 | Coffee, Books & a Blog
First define your terms. I was taught that at school, and it’s good advice, since we use the same words but don’t necessarily understand the same things by them. I love series, which I understand to be a group of books about people who are connected in...
by Jude Knight | May 8, 2017 | Coffee, Books & a Blog
I’m giving Coffee Time Romance readers a chance to win a free ecopy of each of the other Redepenning stories to a random commenter: Candle’s Christmas Chair and Gingerbread Bride (novellas) and Farewell to Kindness (Book 1). I’ll count all comments on any...
