Have you ever wanted to read adventures of the more colorful Regency heroes and heroines? I have. I wondered what happened to the sons and daughters of the nabobs — those men who made their fortune in India. They had wives and children. But what happened to them?
And what about the brave men who traveled the American frontier? Many of them intermarried with native women — what happened to them? What about the men and women who colonized the Caribbean? We all know history is full of such colorful characters, usually teetering on the fringes of Society, but where are they in our novels?
Last year, I saw Vanity Fair. The movie was beautiful, but I was distracted by the subplot of the Caribbean heiress. Remember her? I had to get the book! I had to know everything about her! That’s when I knew exactly what stories I was meant to tell.
Like most aspiring authors, I’ve been reading as long as I can remember. So after reading hundreds of novels, I knew I needed to find the answer to an age-old question before I began my own writing. How do you make an old story fresh? How do you twist a plot so overused it has its own name?
My answer is simple: change the characters. I hope you enjoy my Regency World, where the cast is as colorful as the stories they tell. Excerpts from If You Asked the Devil to Dance and If You Asked a Rake to Reform are available in the top right hand corner of this site. If you’d like to know more, please contact me.
-Lacey
