Love Inspired Historical 2

I'm here!  

Hope -- You need to go to the Harvest Festival and write a short story for the writing challenge.  The gift certificate is a $25 one for Barnes and Noble so you could buy Carla's book (and a few more besides).  So far there's no competition so who knows? :)  It's only 250 words so it shouldn't take long.

Just submitted for the contest---250 words is HARD :) 

I LOVE WWII movies :)  but mostly the action centred ones like "The Enemy Below".  I did write a first person piece in high school that was WWII, I wrote it as Field Marshal Rommel's wife---and before I get stoned, I admire his military genius, he was NOT a Nazi and was much respected by the English and Allies. 

I also have a story I did in college for a writing class that takes place during Vietnam, everyone thought I should expand it into a novel and publish it....perhaps I will someday. 

Just wanted to let you know I've entered the first chapter of my historical romantic suspense Burning Heart in the Christian Writers of the West contest. I can never remember the name of the contest, but it's something about "rattlers." Scary. :)

Oh. the Regency England was awesome.

I've only read a few Regencies, it's just not my favourite period, but I did just read one that I thought was very good, it was in my sisters TBR stack (mine's boxed up and ready to be stored)....."The Dutiful Rake"  it's a HH, so it does have some ....  steamy scenes between husband and wife, but nothing really graphic, and it's just a good story. 

Variety is so good!  I love the LIH's I've managed to read, but still have a huge TBR pile consisting of many things.  I am so glad that this line was started.

I'd still rather live back then, have a real man---one who knows his duty is to protect, provide, and defend.  One who understands that God made man and woman differently for a reason and does his duty while I do mine.  I just don't think there are any real men left---they are married or dead :( 

Oh my!  Naturally!  I'm Orthodox, so our priests can marry, but that doesn't seem to help any, they're all married that I know.  I know very manly old-fashioned men in my reenacting group--they're married.  Prince Andrew's not married and seems nice and manly, but what are the odds of THAT happening :)

I used to accuse Firemen and Policemen of going through a course their last year that the final requirement for graduating was to get married.....and you know what my brother says about Bible College (he's a Christian minister)?  It's where girls go to get their MRS degree...now why didn't I think of that?? :)

Dream

I just finished The Gladiator and thought it was an excellent debut release.  I can't wait to read Carla's next book in January...I love that time period, thought the plight of the Christians at that time was so sad....

I'm currently reading Elizabeth White's Crescent City Courtship and am enjoying it.  I like the references to medicine at that time and applaud Abigail's desire to be a doctor in a time when women had life so difficult.

While, I'm hosty over in Simply Series and Kimani, I read both LIH first.  Why?  I love Western Historials and the fare from LIH is great.  Add a little tenderness and people who are focussed on their spiritual life and it helps me to remember that God is good...

And the upcoming months look so great!

wj

I'm still holding out for a man who wields a sword :)

 typing away on medieval and 18th century WIPs.......the medieval is in what I hope is final revision and then off to an agent once I find one!  :)

hmmm....historic bathing practises.......there's a topic!  And I am also glad they bathe more regularly now, although not so much when they're reenacting, they just dip in the horse trough, probably like they did then...ewwww

So true, ila!!  I stay home and can never figure out where all my time went. 

Just have to vent a bit...I realise everyone has their own opinion and point of view---and that is great---BUT how is it that some people post reviews on sites like Amazon that leave other readers wondering if they actually read the book?  You should have to prove you actually read the book before you get to put out an opinion on it. 

Ok, got that out of my system.... :)

Read two wonderful historical romances and have two more sitting here to be read!  Since I packed only things I did not want to be lost and therefore had already read, it was a super treat to get Janet's historical in the mail Friday along with my gift card that I promptly used :) 

And somewhere in all the reading I got some writing done too.  I have two secondary characters clamouring for attention......they will have to wait.   I found a picture of a coin and an engraving that give me some idea of what my hero in the Anglo-Saxon might have looked like, there's a good description of his half-brother in writing and that helped as well, but somehow I still keep picturing Fabio  

Janet--LOVED THE BOOK!!!  and plowing through the purchased ones with enthusiasm as well :)

Oh definitely two people can come up with different opinions, it's just the ones that, like you said, obviously didn't read it that feel the need to comment anyway.....oh well.

I don't think my hero is supposed to look like Fabio, but he does -- not bad, but just strange.

Ila, it occurred to me you might also enjoy the Love Inspired Historical discussion group some of us authors have on Goodreads.  We're trying to build  bridges from that discussion group to this site so, if you do check it out, let us know you're Ila from eharlequin and maybe we can plug the discussion over here.

I saw you got there, Ila -- Good job!  I'm not so techie either.  For anyone else, you can just do a search for Goodreads and then search for the group or search for me and go down on my profile until it shows the groups I belong to.  Love Inspired Historicals will be there.

Hope -- the photos on the artwork are still up and you can read the comments.  Cheryl St. John is getting us to post pictures of our desks right now!  If you get a chance, read our story, too.  I'm wondering if people would like to do something like that here --

That looks wonderful. I saw that, and wondered...but I didn't want to try it until I knew more. We'll do our best.

Dream -- If you go on Goodreads to our Love Inspired Historical group and view the 'Let's Go on A Sleigh Ride Together' (which has the questions) and the one that shows our story of going on a sleigh ride, you might be able to tell if it is something people here would like.  It seems a bit complicated, but people did really well with it there.  I wouldn't want to promise a story we couldn't do though.