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Members’ Regency Fiction Releases for 08/2021

On the 1st of each month, Regency Fiction Writers publishes our FREE online newsletter, The Regency Reader, to anyone interested in Regency Fiction (1780-1840). The publication features author interviews, tidbits about the Regency era, and a listing of new titles from members and non-members (Submit your May Regency-set Fiction Release or Regency Author Article by April 24th, to appear in the May issue. Information submitted after April 24th will appear in the June issue.). (Subscribe now!)

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Meredith Bond

King of Clubs
Series: The Ladies’ Wagering Whist Society
Genre: Regency Traditional Romance
Publisher: Anessa Books
Content Rating: Clean Sweet
Format: Print | eBook
Release Date: 08/01/2021
Author Website: https://meredithbond.com

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Can the Ladies’ Wagering Whist Society ensure that two business rivals close the deal?
Joshua Powell, Lord Wickford, enjoys being the dashing, popular and successful owner of Powell’s Club for Gentlemen. But when he is nearly killed while riding through the streets of London, he realizes that he needs to find a wife and beget an heir. Joshua knows that his intended wife needs to be a lady from a well-esteemed family. So why is he constantly distracted by his business adversary’s sparkling beauty, sharp tongue, and dazzling mind?
Gwendolyn Sherman is fascinated with numbers and with figuring out the most efficient way to run her father’s business. So her father makes her a deal: he would allow her to anonymously start her own business – a club for ladies – only if she would stay in London and find a titled husband. But those Regency lords all seem to want her only for her dowry. All, of course, except for her biggest competitor, the annoyingly attractive Viscount Wickford.
It will be up to the Ladies’ Wagering Whist Society to win their last trick, by setting Joshua straight on his priorities. After all, the ace of hearts trumps the king of clubs.

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Members’ Regency Fiction Releases for 07/2021

On the 1st of each month, Regency Fiction Writers publishes our FREE online newsletter, The Regency Reader, to anyone interested in Regency Fiction (1780-1840). The publication features author interviews, tidbits about the Regency era, and a listing of new titles from members and non-members (Submit your May Regency-set Fiction Release or Regency Author Article by April 24th, to appear in the May issue. Information submitted after April 24th will appear in the June issue.). (Subscribe now!)

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Janna MacGregor

A Duke in Time
Series: The Widow Rules
Genre: Regency Romance
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Content Rating: Spicy
Format: Print | eBook | AudioBook
Release Date: 06/29/2021
Author Website: https://www.jannamacgregor.com

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“If…looking for something new with Austen’s spirit, humor, and dashing heroes, they can’t do better than MacGregor.” -Entertainment Weekly

A Duke in Time is the first book in a three-story arc that will have you rooting for leading heroines, searching for lost dowries, and falling for swoon-worthy heroes.

Katherine Vareck is in for the shock of her life when she learns upon her husband Meri’s accidental death that he had married two other women. Her entire business, along with a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be a royal supplier, is everything she’s been working for and now could be destroyed if word leaks about the three wives.

Meri’s far more upstanding brother, Christian, Duke of Randford has no earthly clue how to be of assistance. He spent the better part of his adult years avoiding Meri and the rest of his good-for-nothing family, so to be dragged back into the fold is…problematic. Even more so is the intrepid and beautiful Katherine, whom he cannot be falling for because she’s Meri’s widow. Or can he?

With a textile business to run and a strong friendship forming with Meri’s two other wives, Katherine doesn’t have time for much else. But there’s something about the warm, but compellingly taciturn Christian that draws her to him. When an opportunity to partner in a business venture brings them even closer, they’ll have to face their pasts if they want to share each other’s hearts and futures.

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Members’ Regency Fiction Releases for 06/2021

On the 1st of each month, Regency Fiction Writers publishes our FREE online newsletter, The Regency Reader, to anyone interested in Regency Fiction (1780-1840). The publication features author interviews, tidbits about the Regency era, and a listing of new titles from members and non-members (Submit your May Regency-set Fiction Release or Regency Author Article by April 24th, to appear in the May issue. Information submitted after April 24th will appear in the June issue.). (Subscribe now!)

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Members’ Regency Fiction Releases for 05/2021

On the 1st of each month, Regency Fiction Writers publishes our FREE online newsletter, The Regency Reader, to anyone interested in Regency Fiction (1780-1840). The publication features author interviews, tidbits about the Regency era, and a listing of new titles from members and non-members (Submit your May Regency-set Fiction Release or Regency Author Article by April 24th, to appear in the May issue. Information submitted after April 24th will appear in the June issue.). (Subscribe now!)

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Members’ Regency Fiction Releases for 04/2021

On the 1st of each month, Regency Fiction Writers publishes our FREE online newsletter, The Regency Reader, to anyone interested in Regency Fiction (1780-1840). The publication features author interviews, tidbits about the Regency era, and a listing of new titles from members and non-members (Submit your May Regency-set Fiction Release or Regency Author Article by April 24th, to appear in the May issue. Information submitted after April 24th will appear in the June issue.). (Subscribe now!)

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Andrea K. Stein – Featured Beau Monde Author

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Today’s featured Beau Monde author is
Andrea K. Stein!

Andrea K. Stein, the daughter of a trucker and an artist, never knew it would take the hard-work ethic of her father to achieve the light-filled magic of her mother’s art. After helping raise a combined family equaling the Brady bunch without Alice, she retired early from a 30-year career as a newspaper and publishing professional and fled to the mountains. She interspersed a seven-year stint as a Colorado ski patroller with nautical adventures with a crusty, old British delivery captain, accumulating some 20,000 miles at sea. While delivering yachts up and down the Caribbean, she also earned a USCG offshore captain’s license. Now, she tells award-winning tales of the high seas from her writing room in Colorado. She has nine romance novels self-published on Amazon since 2014.

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President’s Welcome & Update

As of today, Regency Fiction Writers–The Beau Monde has 176 members and counting! It’s our promise that RFW-TBM will open and welcoming to all writers of Regency-set fiction. I like to think of it as we have an enormously long dining table with enough chairs for anyone who wants to pursue their dream of writing Regency set fiction. We will always find another chair.

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Barbara Monajem – Featured Beau Monde Author

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Today’s featured Beau Monde author is
Barbara Monajem!

Barbara Monajem wrote her first story at eight years old about apple tree gnomes. After publishing a middle-grade fantasy, she settled on historical mysteries and romances with intrepid heroines and long-suffering heroes (or vice versa). Often there’s bit of fantasy mixed in, because she wants to avoid reality as much as possible.

Barbara used to have two items on her bucket list: to make asparagus pudding and to succeed at knitting socks. She managed the first (don’t ask) but doubts she’ll ever accomplish the second. This is not a bid for immortality but merely the dismal truth. She lives near Atlanta with an ever-shifting population of relatives, friends, and feline strays.

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Andrea Penrose – Featured Beau Monde Author

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Today’s featured Beau Monde author is
Andrea Penrose!

Andrea Penrose is the bestselling author of Regency-era historical fiction, including the acclaimed Wrexford & Sloane mystery series, as well as Regency romances written under the names Cara Elliott and Andrea Pickens. Published internationally in ten languages, she is a three-time RITA finalist and the recipient of numerous writing awards, including two Daphne Du Maurier Awards for Historical Mystery and two Golden Leaf Awards. A graduate of Yale University, Andrea fell in love with Regency England after reading Pride and Prejudice and has maintained a fascination with the era’s swirling silks and radical new ideas throughout her writing career. She lives in Connecticut and blogs with the Word Wenches.

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Victoria Hinshaw – Featured Beau Monde Author

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Today’s featured Beau Monde author is
Victoria Hinshaw!

Victoria Hinshaw wrote horse stories as a pre-teen and romantic fiction ever since. When she isn’t pounding away on her laptop in Milwaukee, WI, or Naples, FL, you might find her attacking a towering TBR pile, coping with three teen-age grandsons, or visiting England.

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Liz Tyner – Featured Beau Monde Author

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Today’s featured Beau Monde author is Liz Tyner!

On a career assessment test, Liz once selected an interest in every subject but scuba diving, a choice that confused her high school advisor but added to Liz’s belief that she should become a writer who could live many lives vicariously. Her novels have been published in ten countries while her own lifestyle has remained similar to the one of her childhood, including an acreage to explore and photograph.

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Valerie Bowman – Featured Beau Monde Author

Today’s featured Beau Monde author is Valerie Bowman!

Photo of author Valerie BowmanValerie Bowman’s books have received starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, and Kirkus. She’s been an RT Reviewers’ Choice nominee for Best First Historical Romance and Best Historical Romance Love and Laughter. Two of her books have been nominated for the Kirkus Prize for fiction.

Valerie grew up in Illinois with six sisters (she’s number seven). After earning a degree in English with a minor in history at Smith College, she moved to Florida. Valerie now lives in Jacksonville with her family. When she’s not writing, she keeps busy reading, traveling, and watching crazy reality TV.

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Jacki Delecki – Featured Beau Monde Author

Today’s featured Beau Monde author is Jacki Delecki!

Photo of author Jacki Delecki with her two dogs.Descended from a long line of storytellers, Jacki spins adventures filled with heart-pounding, danger, intrigue, and romance.

Jacki’s stories reflect her lifelong love affair with the arts and history. At a young age, she trained as a jazz singer and dancer. She has performed many acting roles with the Seattle Opera Company and Pacific Northwest Ballet. Her travels to London and Paris ignited her passion for the Regency era.

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Sawyer North – Featured Beau Monde Author

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Today’s featured Beau Monde author is Sawyer North!

 
Sawyer North didn’t begin reading romance novels until he turned 50. All those years, wasted. Do you have a list of books you wish you’d never read so you could read them again for the first time? That’s Sawyer, right now, all the time.

It didn’t take him long to transition from writing science fiction to writing historical romance. After a couple of unpublishable manuscripts, he finally found the rhythm and discovered a publisher willing to take a chance on an unknown male romance writer. His wife is very happy about this, as we are finally reading the same books.

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Laura A. Barnes – Featured Beau Monde Author

Today’s featured Beau Monde author is Laura A. Barnes!

Photo of author Laura A. Barnes.Laura A. Barnes writes steamy historical romances where the women have a mind of their own. She fell in love with writing in the second grade. After her first creative writing assignment, she knew what she wanted to become. Many years went by with Laura filling her head full of story ideas and some funny fish songs she wrote while fishing with her family. Thirty-seven years later, she made her dreams a reality. With her debut novel RESCUED BY THE CAPTAIN, she set out on the path she always dreamed about.

When not writing, Laura can be found devouring her favorite romance books. Laura is married to her own Prince Charming (who for some reason or another thinks the heroes in her books are about him) and they have three wonderful children and two sweet grandbabies. Besides her love of reading and writing, Laura loves to travel. With her passport stamped in England, Scotland, and Ireland; she hopes to add more countries to her list soon.

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Gail Eastwood – Featured Beau Monde Author

Today’s featured Beau Monde author is Gail Eastwood!

Photo of author Gail Eastwood.Gail Eastwood is a former journalist and rare book dealer who says A.A. Milne and Beatrix Potter made her an Anglophile at a very early age, preparing her for Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer. Her books have won awards including The Golden Leaf for Best Regency, three Reviewer’s Choice nominations, and two Holt Medallion finalists. LORD OF MISRULE was a 2019 Maggie Award finalist. Twice nominated for Romantic Times Magazine’s Career Achievement Award, Gail loves researching and imagining life in Regency England through stories to share with readers. She and her loving husband live in New England, where they enjoy an active involvement with theater and Gail is addicted to her favorite beach in the summer. They are the parents of two adult sons, one of whom is an actor, following in his father’s theatrical footsteps.

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Tracy Edingfield – Featured Beau Monde Author

Today’s featured Beau Monde author is Tracy Edingfield!

Former attorney Tracy Edingfield spins steamy tales of Regency romances because love stories never get old, and we all wish to be in the moment when love magically blossoms.

Anna Harrington – Featured Beau Monde Author

Today’s featured Beau Monde author is Anna Harrington!

Photo of author Anna Harrington.Anna Harrington is an author of spicy Regency romance with dashing heroes and independent heroines, layers of emotion, and lots of sizzle. She fell in love with historical romances and all things Regency while living in England, where she spent most of her time reading Jane Austen and getting lost in London (especially the getting lost part). Anna has traveled around the world, both as a tourist and as a volunteer with children’s organizations in Peru, Ecuador, Thailand, and Mexico. She loves to hike and fly airplanes, adores all things chocolate and coffee, and is a Doctor Who fanatic (everyone says her house *is* bigger on the inside!). Anna claims to be a terrible cook who hopes to one day use her oven for something other than shoe storage. In her spare time, Anna enjoys gardening and growing roses. Her fav authors are Elizabeth Hoyt, Sabrina Jeffries, Lisa Kleypas, Julia Quinn, and Sylvia Day.
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Alissa Baxter — Featured Beau Monde Author

Today’s featured Beau Monde author is Alissa Baxter!

Photo of author Alissa Baxter.Alissa Baxter wrote her first Regency romance, THE DASHING DEBUTANTE, during her long university holidays. After traveling the world, she settled down to write her second Regency romance, LORD FENMORE’S WAGER, which was inspired by her time living on a country estate in England. Regency Reads will be releasing her third Regency novel, A MARCHIONESS BELOW STAIRS, on November 15, 2017. Also the author of two contemporary romances, SEND AND RECEIVE and THE BLOG AFFAIR, Alissa is a member of RWA as well as ROSA (Romance writers Organisation of South Africa). Alissa currently lives in Johannesburg with her husband and two sons.
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Victoria Oliveri — Featured Beau Monde Author

Today’s featured Beau Monde author is Victoria Oliveri!

Photo of author Victoria Oliveri.History has always held my fascination. I became a genealogist for my family in my teens and traveled abroad to find my roots. Pouring over old documents is a treasure hunt. I also became involved in reenactment groups and found that immersion in living history was both intriguing and intrinsic to my love of telling stories of the past.

My love of world travel gives my stories depth. I’ve had conversations with conservators at abandoned castles across Europe, and have felt their stone beneath my fingertips. I’ve walked down the streets of Mayfair, imagining my characters strolling there beside me, and I’ve sat in King Henry’s kitchen at Hampton Court joyfully smelling the meat cooking on the hearth. With each separate occasion, I learn more about history and continue to build a bank of memories in my mind that will fill many more novels in the future.
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