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In a writing career that stretches back more years than I like to count, this is far from being the worst setback I've ever experienced. That "honor" goes to something that happened in 1988, when I had three young adult novels already written and edited and scheduled for Silhouette's Keepsake line. One even had a cover. Then Silhouette decided to discontinue the line, and none of them saw the light of day, at least not in that incarnation. Now that's a setback. I've always been a glass-half-full kind of person. On the plus side of that bad news, came the good news of my first sale of a novel for grown ups. And I was able to resell one of the three Y.A. novels to another publisher. I eventually rewrote the second as a romance for Loveswept. And the third? Well, that was one I really liked a lot, probably because it was loosely (very loosely) based on my own experiences in high school. I held onto the manuscript, did some revision here and there over the years, and eventually issued it myself as the ebook original, SOMEDAY. What can I say? I've never been one to let setbacks slow me down. I just hang in there . . . and keep on writing. I hope readers will find SECRETS OF THE TUDOR COURT: AT THE KING'S PLEASURE worth waiting for. It is a novel I thoroughly enjoyed writing. Set in the early days of the reign of Henry VIII, it starts with the December wedding two real people, Lady Anne Stafford and George, Lord Hastings. Like the other heroines in my Secrets of the Tudor Court series, Lady Anne was rumored to have been one of the king's mistresses. The novel gives a new spin to that story, a tale that involves romance, intrigue, even treason, and includes Lady Anne's infamous incarceration in a nunnery. During the wait for publication, I'll be busy writing the next entry in the series, THE KING'S DAMSEL, tentatively scheduled for publication in August 2012, but I have a few suggestions for readers looking for something else to read in the interim. I also write a contemporary mystery series using the pseudonym Kaitlyn Dunnett. My amateur sleuth is a former professional Scottish dancer named Liss MacCrimmon who now runs a shop, Moosetookalook Scottish Emporium, in the tiny rural village of Moosetookalook, Maine. The previous books in the series are KILT DEAD, SCONE COLD DEAD, A WEE CHRISTMAS HOMICIDE, and THE CORPSE WORE TARTAN. The new one, SCOTCHED, set at a small mystery fan convention, will be in stores October 25. Liss MacCrimmon Scottish Mysteries If you're not a mystery fan, you might still want to try SOMEDAY, the ebook I mentioned above. And if you only like historical novels? Before I started writing as Kate Emerson, I wrote three Tudor historicals as Kathy Lynn Emerson—WINTER TAPESTRY, UNQUIET HEARTS, and THE GREEN ROSE, as well as a mystery series set in the Elizabethan era (FACE DOWN IN THE MARROW-BONE PIE and its sequels). All of those are available as ebooks, too. Whatever you choose, be it one of my books or someone else's, I wish you many happy hours of reading.
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Re: Kathy Lynn Emerson | Hanging in There
Historical romance is one of my favorites and so are those about Scotland. You have great covers for your books.
Wow! Always working, but you have a great
I love to read and your book covers have caught my attention. I realize the old adage "you can't tell a book by it's cover" but if a cover doesn't catch my eye I pass it over. Your mysters sound wonderful. Thanks!!
You've left a lot of books for the choosing, even if your book got delayed. They say that good things come to those who wait, so this one should be a good book. It looks like you have all the bases covered anyway, so by the time we get done reading, another one should be ready. I love the way the covers are done, and love the colors. Good luck in the future.
I loved history even at high school and loved the historical novels by Elswyth Thane and various male authors before historical romances by Woodiwiss, Lindsey, et al. Without some sort of true history or personages in them, the romances are just not quite up to snuff for me. The ones shown here definitely are since, if I'm reading it right, they take place in Tudor times. That would fit in with some of my recent reading.
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