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Dear Readers, You are cordially invited to… A Wedding In Cornwall ! Sophie and Robin are finally tying the knot! Join the Tresilians in this companion tale to A Song At Twilight , as they celebrate their prodigal daughter’s marriage to the man she has loved through years of separation and heart-breaking obstacles.  Meanwhile, Sir Harry Tresilian hopes that his sister’s wedding will not be the only one in the offing. After a two-year courtship, he means to coax his skittish mistress to the altar at last. Will his cunning plan succeed? How will Sara, Robin’s young daughter, react to becoming part of a large extended family? And what about that mysterious letter Sophie receives right before the wedding—could it possibly derail her and Robin’s big day? For the answers to these and other questions, haste to the wedding, where love, laughter, and—of course—music will abound! Pamela Sherwood * The Story Behind The Story :   Writing shorter lengths has...

Cloak billowing in the wind, tricorne hat perched proudly on his head, he galloped across my television screen and changed my life forever. Hyperbole? Not by much. Robin Ellis as Ross Poldark One summer, our local PBS station broadcast the 1970s miniseries Poldark-- about the changing fortunes of an ancient Cornish mining family--and its sequel back-to-back. Almost 30 weeks of high drama, smoldering romance, and swashbuckling adventure, unfolding against the wild, beautiful landscape of 18 th century Cornwall. The lavish production was lovingly written—despite some dramatic liberties taken early in the series—and wonderfully cast, with a brooding Robin Ellis as the title character (a soldier who returns to a ruined estate and a sweetheart now engaged to his cousin instead), and a fiery Angharad Rees as Demelza, one of the main women in Poldark’s life. Other standouts included Ralph Bates, as Poldark’s smarmy parvenu nemesis, George Warleggan, and Richard Morant a...

Hello again! I’m thrilled to announce the official release this week of my new historical romance, A Song at Twilight . A loose sequel to my previous novel, Waltz with a Stranger , A Song at Twilight is a second chance at love story between a rising star of the Victorian opera and concert stage and the man she fell in love with at seventeen--and has never been able to forget. [Earlier posts about the book may be found here and here ] Music often plays a significant role in my stories, partly because I love it myself, and partly because it was one of the most popular and reliable forms of entertainment in Victorian England. From the highbrow operas of Verdi and Wagner to the frothier operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan to the music halls and burlesques, music was a pleasure accessible to people of all classes. At home, families would often gather around the piano in the evenings to sing their favorite songs. Playing an instrument (usually the piano) was deemed an essential ac...

I've always loved receiving parcels in the mail, whether they were Christmas gifts from relatives who lived out of state, care packages from home during my graduate school years, purchases from mail order catalogs like Lands End and L.L. Bean or internet companies like Amazon or ebay. But nothing so far beats the thrill of opening a parcel containing the first ARCs for your book. Your book . And for me, that's the best thing about an ARC: seeing your manuscript in book form--bound, formatted, and blurbed--for the first time. The realization of your dream, the fruit of your labors, the successful culmination of a year-long (or so) journey. Not even the discovery of minor errata--and let's face it, there's probably no such thing as a perfect ARC, so thank the publishing gods for giving you one more chance to tweak things with galleys and page proofs!--can dim the excitement or the sense of achievement in that moment. All of which is my long-winded way of announcing ...

Finished! So far, that's the first achievement of the New Year. The edits for A Song at Twilight --a loose sequel to Waltz with a Stranger --are done, and, pending editorial approval, the book will be released in October 2013. I have a love-hate relationship with sequels. As a reader, my love of sequels knows no bounds--when an author creates a fascinating cast of characters playing out their dramas in a well-developed setting, I am always eager to see more. And when I'm well and truly hooked, I'll read every successive book until a) the author is finished with the series, or b) the series changes/deteriorates to the point where it no longer possesses the elements that drew me to it in the first place. For a writer, I think the sequel/series situation is trickier. Even when you love your characters and look forward to chronicling their adventures, an ongoing concern becomes how to keep a series fresh. How do you avoid boring the reader and yourself wit...