Sometimes books between 3-5 hours are priced around $10. Its a weird I dont want it to be over thing I sometimes have.) if (this.auth.status === "not_authorized") { From exotic sandstone palaces. [CDATA[ And my name is Lydia so how could I not reply! I think I looked recently and her author website had vanished. #cnsf18. advantages and disadvantages of formal reports Navigation. What worries me on a macro level is that peoples opinions or generalizations are accepted as fact (and even facts are debatable!). I love the Charlotte Holmes books (Im reading the upcoming one now) but would also like to see some more HR from Ms. Thomas. Wednesday's column featured a 2009 interview with historical romance author Meredith Duran. Is this some strange new perversity thats surfacing in him, that leads him to fixate on a stiff-necked, over-educated bluestocking? lagos lockdown news today; is meredith duran still writing Zombies arent really my thing, but Im glad Stein is still publishing. Sometimes Julie Anne Longs books fill this void for me. Always at the center of the crowd, widely adored despite his own best efforts to scandalize, he can do as he pleases and face no consequences for it. She wrote back a very personalized, kind letter, which made her my hero AND my favorite historical romance writer. I just wanted to say that I loved The Duke of Shadows. Just looking at the first 10 pages of their most recent HR releases, I see a ton of Regency, titled heroes and/or heroines, some Vikings and Medieval, and a smattering of Victorian. This is why I get so miffed when authors get pilloried on Twitter, like theyre wholly responsible for iffy content they were probably pushed into writing in the first place in order to secure that next advance. Case in point, Ive hit the Top 100 list in certain niches for several hours just because someone bought one copy and borrowed a few pages of a book I published the day before. As I said (before I read your comments here) Im basing my observations on big publishers and the books getting the PR money and push. They are still quite good. I am a quilter. The blog entries she posted at the time were heart-wrenching. Ive never read anything by Meredith Duran but would love to start! Whether the decision was based on sales (or lack thereof) or the desire for the Next Big Thing, Im sorry I no longer get to read some of these favorites. And, to make the good news even better, the incredibleBound by Your Touch will be followed with another release in August, Written on Your Skin. I believe if I read the interview right she was all but forced by her editor to write contemporary and I understand if the voice does not sound right because the voice fits a historical not going make the contemporary sound right. I think a lot of books would not be published as easily today. I just read a 500+ page romance in July from Mariana Zapata, but I know shes self-published. Written On Your Skin 09-Oct-2014 by Meredith Duran ( 67 ) 3.99 18.93 Meredith Duran returns with another witty, humorous and smart romance. //]]>. Im so bedazzled at being associated with those authors that I am tempted to say the whole world looks golden right now! Via a conversational approach, each episode explores a timely topic related to the science of reading. And what a waste of narrators! // logged into Facebook user but not a GR app user; show FB button It might have shades of Stevie Nicks, a touch of Joni Mitchell, a dash of The Eagles' soft rock . Sometimes success brings a whole new batch of troubles, and any artistic decision you make can affect the income of hundreds or thousands of people. I hope this is true because I still havent forgiven her for that cliffhanger ending in 2010! A self-publisher getting into a brick and mortar store would be extremely rare, which means non-internet shoppers have a limited selection of popular tropes, themes, and so forth. I have been looking at this book for a month or two, then apparently all of my GR friends read it at once, because there were updates everywhere. I have brought this up many times before, and often received backlash for saying it. From what others here have commented about what publishers are pushing for lately and how the word count of books are in general diminishing, it seems lots of other people have noticed significant changes in the market. I am currently listening to a 1348 page bookThe Standand am reveling in its detailed storylines and fully formed characters. The talented and time-challenged Meredith Duran (she was also preparing for the oral defense of her dissertation at the time we were putting this together) patiently answered a few of my questions. I find a trend for me is when two or three books in a row arent working, and then I become reluctant to keep reading when the next new book arrives. Julia Spencer-Fleming is whom I miss. This theme wasn't crafted with conscious intention. I didnt post often but I read a lot of the posts, and I clicked on your Amazon links whenever I bought a book to show my support. The book is just plain encouraging; sometimes its easy to think all the really good books have been written already, and theres nothing else out there.. What a wonderful interview thanks for giving us a peak into your ideas, influences, and future plans. Her last novel, Shadows, was published in 2013. These new full cast recordings sound really odd, because while there are lots of voices, there are no sound effects! Her debut, The Duke of Shadows, has been translated into thirteen languages and was ranked among the top 100 romances of all time by NPR and All About Romance. I dont mind it in contemporary romance or even a time travel, but I really dislike 19th century bluestocking heroines that write like modern bloggers.. Same here, for some reason I found it extremely difficult to get into Sherry Thomas Charlotte Holmes series. The "Strangler Fig" pattern for technology modernization may be my favorite for complex transformations, but there are varying approaches of the pattern that I too wish shed write more romance! Writing for audio might also be the reason we see shorter books these days with fewer supporting characters and less complicated plot lines. I relisten to the books periodically, I hope they come back someday. Nina Bangs (pnr, a few years) Thanks for giving me some insight into how Audible works. document.getElementById("ak_js_1").setAttribute("value",(new Date()).getTime()), document.getElementById("ak_js_2").setAttribute("value",(new Date()).getTime()). Another pet peeve of mine is when an author feels the need to make a historical story more relevant by employing that wonky dual perspectives trope between old person reflecting on life and young person reporting about it. Wow. They are probably the ones who get loads of meaningless 5* reviews of 10 words or less. Elizabeth Hoyt hasnt written much in a long time and based on reviews of her last book, I havent started her new series. I enjoyed the first two. Now I avoid her books because they just disappoint me. I cant speak for audiobook sellers and producers since Im not in that game, but you definitely see something similar with erotica e-book pricing scales. Oh no, we have to introduce a perky, bubbly, wannabe journalist 21st century hip chick who interviews the old lady instead of just telling the old ladys story without this presumptuous and hella annoying filter. At the very least, shed probably have to change the title. They didnt mention click farms specifically, but that is yet another scam. @ Lynne Connolly: I just cant cope with the romance community as it is right now, and historical romance sales have gone right down since the Amazon scam authors moved in. This seemed both a sad and very intriguing comment. One momentous night, he makes a very grave mistake, and Mina risks her life to save his own. MEREDITH DURAN blames Anne Boleyn for sparking her lifelong obsession with British history. My favorite romance author is Judith Ivory and her style influenced some of my other favorites, like Sherry Thomas and Meredith Duran. As the old Tootsie Roll commercials say, The world may never know. Loretta Chase is planning to write at least 1 more book in her current series. He smiled. The woman in it goes back to the 1940s. Meredith Duran. They never were., The 2nd annual Nothing but Reading Challenges' Best 'DRESS'ed Cover Poll. I believe that publishers must think peoples attention spans are shorter and also that they can get as much money for a book thats thousands of words less than they used to be. Alas, Lydia Boyce has no interest in being charmed. Fool Me Twice (Rules for the Reckless, #2), A Lady's Code of Misconduct (Rules for the Reckless, #5), Luck Be a Lady (Rules for the Reckless, #4), That Scandalous Summer (Rules for the Reckless, #1), The Sins of Lord Lockwood (Rules for the Reckless, #6), Meet the Authors of This Season's Swooniest Romances, Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America. Cant wait to read it! I will try it again, however. In 2017, she mentioned on her social media that she was writing a new book The Return of Lady Anne but I havent seen an update since then. I know that not all books can be epics, nor should they be. Also, their blog, So You Think You Can Write, occasionally posts wish lists for submissions, which tend to skew in the direction you mentioned. Its been several years since Ive read a book this long and I realize now I miss them! Regencies seem to have quite a number that were at about 75k even if some were not that long it was not unusal to see one in that range. I received an email from her recently in which she shared that health issues were slowing her writing, but she has not stopped permanently.. Heaven Sent, Marrying Stone, Simple Jess, Wild Oats, The Love Charm these were the books that made me realize hey, romance is wonderful. How much do publishers and editors shape public taste? if (hash === 'blog' && showBlogFormLink) { Theyre innovative not only in terms of where they set their books and the sorts of stories they tell, but also in terms of the way they tell those stories. I can see it. Not a chicken/egg but a system of mutual back and forth influence, as it were. I dont think writers necessarily use quantitative data when chasing trends either. She has also published humor essays in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Belladonna and Points in Case. Meredith was born and raised enamored of British history. Written on Your Skin is about trust. Great interview! 50 Shades of Grey ripoffs, Cutesy titles mimicking How to Lose a Guy In Ten Days, anything with a Duke and the floods of YA books inspired by the Twilight series. For many years the books that make the big cardboard displays at stores or that RWA and other groups often touted as the best books are not the ones I read (in general). Every generation, every decade even, produces different ideas of the ideal man or hero. MEREDITH DURAN blames Anne Boleyn for sparking her lifelong obsession with British history. The latter is not really one of my favorites, I only really liked The Music of the Night but I thought she had a potential that never quite materialized. She posts the most delightful vignettes weekly. Meredith Duran is an English author of romance and historical fiction books. Im planning to read her upcoming book. And although Ruthie Knox was never in my Pantheon of favorite writers, Ive enjoyed a number of her books and I dont think shes published anything in a while either. I could be totally off the mark here. Like others have mentioned, her books, along with Judith Ivory and Laura Kinsale, are so grown up, I suppose. I havent been reading romance long enough to miss a particular author, but I can definitely understand why a number of them disappear. With Bound by Your Touch, I'm pretty sure that the keyword is faith - or, more accurately, whether or not to love someone is to have total faith in him or her.