The HEA Cafe

Archive for November, 2010

I don’t know who said it first, but I remember the author’s quote, “I don’t enjoy writing.  I enjoy having written.”

I feel exactly the same way.  I just finished another manuscript, Castaway Dreams. I’m thrilled I finished writing my sixth novel, and it motivates me to begin the next one.  However, I’m taking time to refresh my research first.  My books have been set in Florida and the Caribbean, but this next one (Working Title: “The Hot Pirate’s Secret Baby”) will have most of its action in England in the early 19th C.  I’ve got some great research books on hand, but some of them I read five to ten years ago and they deserve a second look.

I also have a couple of new purchases for research that I’m enjoying.  One is Amanda Vickery’s Behind Closed Doors–At Home in Georgian England and Georgette Heyer’s Regency World by Jennifer Kloester.

This latter book has me worried.  It’s so enjoyable that I’m fighting the urge to re-read my Heyer collection.  I know that if I start spending hours with the Divine Georgette and Hero and Arabella and Sophy and Mary and all her other wonderful heroines (not to mention the heroes!) that I’ll never get to spend time with my Hot Pirate.

So it’s back to work for now, and if I find myself weakening I’ll remember how much I “enjoy having written” and that a new novel is lurking in my brain awaiting its day in the sun.