What Costumes, Context and Inflection Can Do

Cover for the Sept. '11 Release

Timeless Love

I saw this on one of my favorite sites How to be a Retronaut  and I almost didn't share it. It's such a juicy tidbit to try and work into a story I wanted to keep it to myself but just couldn't. A 200 year old love letter has been found hidden in the arm of a chair in Gloucestershire, England bought at an estate sale in France. The letter is in French and written for a man to a woman. I can only imagine the recipient reading the letter in secret and quickly hiding it in a tear in the upholstery as someone enters the room.  

“‘My dear small love, do not be worried, do you seriously believe I would tell anything to these people, who don’t understand anything about love?

“‘If someone insists that I say something, it will be anything but the dear love acquired by you, which is the great treasure hidden in my heart.

“‘I didn’t tell you to come yesterday because I didn’t have the opportunity, but do come every Tuesday around 5:30, and Fridays as well; I count/hope on you tomorrow.

“‘At the moment I write this letter, I can hear my aunt yelling, who else annoys us all day long, today and tomorrow.

“”My dear, I cover you with kisses and caresses until… I need you in this moment of desire. I love you.”

Is That a Romance Novel in Your Purse?

I did a guest blog recently at The Season  talking about books on my keeper self and forced proximity, one of my favorite tropes. So many people commented with wonderful book selections I realized it had been a little while since I'd read anything new apart from Lori Brighton's Wild Heart.  Which I highly recommend.

It's a sad fact that as a writer with a day job I have little time for reading.  But while I was sneaking Secrets of Sin postcard/bookmarks in random places at my local Borders I picked up two new books. Gorgeous as Sin by Susan Johnson because her books are my opium and Goddess of the Hunt by Tessa Dare because I felt like the only historical romance reader on earth that hadn't read it.  These are not the very latest by these authors but they are the first in their latest series.

 I'm a huge fan of SJ as I've mentioned before but I'm not a blind fan. I know what issues other people have with her books, I see their points but I love the books anyway. Yes her heroes are normally more permiscuious and autocratic than is politically correct and sometimes the plot lines are similar. They still give me a thrill and Gorgeous as Sin was no exception. I also love at it's Victorian Set. Victorian Historicals and Steampunk (alternate world Victorian) Paranormals are both at the beginning of a huge popularity up swing.

Rosalind is a widow, suffragette bookstore owner and secretly a writer of erotica. Fitz is the nobleman with a dark childhood that loves his mother and is not afraid to get his hands dirty with commerce. They meet when he's buying up her block for a new development and she's refusing to sell.  His hobby is sex so why not try to persuade her with what he's good at. I like the way they butt heads and I love the love scenes. Yes I would rather him have not been such a philanderer. Yes I wish her reasons for not selling had been a little more believable. But I still enjoyed the ride none the less.

It's a gut instinct with me to buck the crowd. So when everyone was gushing over Goddess of the Hunt and Dare began skyrocketing to huge popularity, I balked.  But as the praise continued through two more books I felt it was a good professional move to see what it was all about. I started it yesterday while waiting at the pediatrician's office. I ended up staying up late reading and I'm already almost half way through. Damn it, it's really is as good as everyone said. So far that is. More on G of the H once it's done.

What was the last thing you read? Have you read something that did or didn't live up to it's hype? Do you have an author you love to read no matter what?

Popovers and Hardbackers

What’s been going on lately you ask? Well let’s see…



I’ve had a sneak peek at our Debutante feature in the next “The Season” ezine /newsletter. I couldn’t be more thrilled! Beverley Kendall does a fabulous job with her site. Please check it out and run don’t walk to buy her debut novel Sinful Surrender.


If you need a stocking stuffer for a reader in your life, check out the Hardbacker @http://hardbacker.com/. This durable adjustable book cover comes in lots of great colors and protects your paperback and disguises the cover if your care about that kind of thing. It comes in both trade and mass market sizes. I received one as a gift and I love it.

Right now my hardbacker is keeping safe my 15 year old copy of Teresa Mederios’s Thief of Hearts. I have the honor of kicking off a new feature at The Season –Blog where guest bloggers review one of their old favorites. I’m re-reading the book now and hope to have the review ready to post in January so stay tuned.

Anything else? Nothing book wise but with my other love cooking I did
successfully make popovers on the first try! Popovers were featured the Christmas classic I watched over the weekend, Remember the Night .
DH loved them. I’m not a huge fan of the internal texture. The entry right under popover in the Joy of Cooking was Yorkshire pudding. Now I’m obsessed with finding an occasion to make Roast Beef with authentic Yorkshire pudding. The only meal I normally host at Christmas is breakfast and that’s not quite breakfast fare.

But enough about me, what about you? Got any good stocking stuffer ideas for readers or writers? What’s your latest food obsession?



I forgot to note that comments from me will be slow. Day Job has now blocked blogspot. I can get to the blogger dashboard but not the blog itself to comment. :(

Few Interesting Links on this Holiday Week

Just some random things I've come across lately.

Publishers Weekly has a great article on how well our publisher, Kensington did in 2009. This is great news that I hope continues in 2010. Kensington Has a Winning 2009.

Here's a random bit of trivial news I thought was fascinating.

McKinlay Distillers is funding an expedition to rescue 100 year old scotch buried in arctic ice.

The creates of wiskey were left behind by famed explorer, Ernest Shackleton. Check out the full story.

Lastly, if you have not yet checked out The Season, the best place on the web for everything you need to know about Historical Romance then what are you waiting for!

Have you come across anything interesting lately?

Have a great holiday everyone!

Natural Sizzle

Over at the The Goddess Blogs yesterday Nicole Jordan had a great post about why people read romance and what they look for in a romance.

I could not have said how I feel about it better than Claudia Dain who said: I read romances because of the sizzle between the hero and heroine, and I don’t mean sexual. I mean pure energy. They have to spark, to twinkle, to ignite something in each other. I want dazzling dialogue and tons of it. I want to be carried along on a tide of uplifting energy, and I want the hero and the heroine to do the heavy lifting through their snappy interaction.

Yes Yes Yes a thousand times Yes!

But I do have one thing to add. I want all that to come completely naturally, no magic, prophetic dreams or divine destiny added. I just want two people that sizzle against the odds without much outside help. I recently read a historical romance that I just really loved so I went to check the author’s back list and read something from a previous series that combined both paranormal and historical. I found it so much less satisfying than the straight historical. As a reader I felt some of that spark and a chunk of the conflict were missing when magic pushed them together and they didn’t do it on their own.

Teresa Medeiros, Madeline Hunter and Julia Quinn are all good at creating that perfect tingling tango between the hero and heroine.

What have you read recently where the H/H just simply sizzle?

Floppy Hats and Mr. Romance

Well, I missed my blog day yesterday so I just thought I’d ramble on here for a minute today.

What have I been up to? Nothing much just struggling to get back in the saddle after taking the month of August off from writing and then buying a new toy (Kayak) that cuts into my writing time.

I’ve been hoping that doing some research will get me into it again. I haven’t really learned anything else interesting except that British Victorians HATED the smell of tobacco smoke and would go to great lengths to keep it at bay. Hence the use of smoking jackets and those funny floppy hats.

My other distraction right now is contemplating whether to attend the Romantic Times Convention this year. I’ve always wanted to go and I’ve always said I would once I had a book out but now I’m not so sure. For one it’s expensive. Two neither our agent nor editor will be there. Thee it’s in Ohio which doesn’t really entice me. And lastly the ball theme is vampires and I just not into them right now at all. I’m still thinking about it.

So what about you? Are you having a hard time getting back into the saddle with something or maybe weighing the Pros and Cons of an upcoming trip or big expense?

Historical Tidbit: The Conceited Cuckold

By Noelle
While I’m heavy into some research I’d thought I’d share a few things here and there that I find interesting.



Recently I read an account of General Daniel Edgar Sickles (1819-1914). He served as an assistant ambassador to England, a congressman, a member of the NY State Senate and military governor of South Carolina in 1865 among other things. What makes him so interesting? Well...as the assistant ambassador to England he left his pregnant young wife, Teresa, behind and instead took with him his favorite New York madam. He even had the audacity to introduce his mistress to the Queen during a function at the Palace. He is the only America diplomat to have ever done so.

But two can play at that game. Sometime after that Mr. & Mrs. Sickles were living in Washington DC and during the inauguration of James Buchanan, Teresa Sickles met Philip Barton Key, son of Frances Scott key. They soon began an affair meeting at a house Mr. Key rented for just that purpose. But being well versed in art of sexual assignations Sickles soon discovery his wife’s secret.


On February 27, 1859 he confronted Key on the corner of Pensylvania Ave. and Madison Place. After a short argument Sickles pulled his pistol. After missing twice he hit his target and the unarmed Key laid dying in the street. According to witnesses Sickles then approached him and shot him yet again. After a sensational trail followed by every newspaper and magazine in the country, Congressman Daniel Sickles became the first man in US history to be acquitted by reason of temporary insanity.


Sickles did not leave his wife saying, “I am not aware of any statute or code of morals which makes it infamous to forgive a woman. I can now see in the almost universal denunciation with which she is followed to my threshold the misery and peril from which I have rescued the mother of my daughter. I shall strive to prove to all that an erring wife and mother may be forgiven and redeemed.” But by all accounts the marraige was astranged from that point forward.


Sickles was never completely free of the scandal. While Military Governor of SC he was greatly disliked by President Johnson who called him “a conceited cuckold”. In 1867 the same year as Teresa's death he was removed him from his post.


But there were others that didn’t seem to mind and in 1869 he was appointed minister to Spain and became the lover of Queen Isabella and known as “The Yankee King of Spain.” He remarried while in Spain to the daughter of a Spanish official and died some years later in New York City at the age of 91.


The infamous Daniel Edgar Sickles an example of the adage "only the good die young."


Source: Wicked Charleston by Mark R. Jones.

Twitter - Aliens with Language Translators

When I first signed Chloe Harris up for Twitter, people said ‘OMG! You’re going to love it!” I thought great this will be fun and it won’t take too much more time since you can have your tweets post as your Facebook status. But so far it’s just okay. I understand the importance of Twitter for promotion in this “New Media” world but I’m not in love with it yet. Then again I’ve never been good at being a social person so maybe it's just me. LOL

I think a lot of other people are still finding their way with it too. A lot of the tweets seem to be personal conversations between a few people that I can’t follow because either I don’t follow all parties or there are too many other tweets in between. And I can’t comment on those because it’s their personal conversation. Some people I follow tweet so much others seem to get drowned out by their verbosity. And there seems to be no clear consensus on just how personal or mundane a topic can be and be okay to be tweeted by a published author being followed by fans and other industry professionals. Some get very personal and day to day and that is certainly just fine as many many people seem to tweet that way.

Don’t get me wrong I have had some fun on Twitter. I have been able to tweet here and there with a few authors that I either have met in person before or know from loops I’m on. I’ve tweeted a little with my favorite book/gift shop in town, The Paper Skyscraper. The owner is so witty and it was fun it to let him know how much I love some of the things I've gotten from his store. And I made contact with the wonderful site The Season- Historical Romance Releases. I really enjoy her tweets and she now has information about the release of Secrets of Sin for 1st quarter 2010. All those are very good things.

But then there was the patchouli incident. It all started when I got curious about the guy that did my tattoo 15 years ago. I looked up his site and was looking around at some of his latest work and there was a very well done portrait of a little girl named Patchouli.

I loved being Southern and I have many Southern hippie friends. And that was just so stereotypically southern hippie I thought it was hilarious. Another thing about some Southerners is that we tend to enjoy self deprecating humor. You can’t make us of us but we love to poke fun at our own eccentric-ness.

I often struggle to find things to tweet so I thought hey what a funny little thing to post on Twitter and Facebook. I thought others with a similar sense of humor might get a chuckle also. And some did. On both Facebook and Twitter, some thought it was odd and wondered if the child in the tattoo was born in the 60s or recently and some like me weren’t fond of the scent. But someone I follow and that followed Chloe Harris because we are both part of the romance world tweeted back that it wasn’t that strange of a name and patchouli was a lovely plant.
I tweeted back that to me a name like that says hello my parents are hippies or from Boone NC.

Now if you don’t know Boone it’s a beautiful artsy place in the North Carolina Mountains. Go if you have a chance and check out Rachel Rays $40 a Day episode before you do. Anyway I can tell you from first hand experience that Boone has a large population of individuals who only wear natural fabrics, do not eat meat, advocate for the legalization of marijuana and who favor the scent of patchouli. So that was what the last bit of my tweet was based on.

After I tweeted that, I stuck around for a minute more then when to bed.
The next morning I was able to see that after turned the computer off she tweeted @Chloe Harris that she was from TN not far from Boone and was one of those hippies of which I spoke and didn’t I put my foot in my mouth.

I was a little taken a back but at that point there was no use in me tweeting anything back to her. First, it was too late. The twitterverse had moved on to many many bigger and better things. Second, I knew better than to act defensive on such a transparent medium since I had just read an article about a blogger that lamented that she let the instant nature of Twitter lead her into acting rashly.

Honestly I didn’t agree that I had said anything wrong. A little snarky maybe but nothing I didn’t stand behind. What I thought I said was naming your child Patchouli would make the general public think hippie. I didn’t say being thought of as what the general public might see as hippie-ish was bad thing at all. As I said before I’m a Southerner with a self deprecating sense of humor and I have first hand knowledge of which I speak so it was all meant in a loving “bless their hearts” kind of way.

But here’s the thing, she didn’t know that. She doesn’t know Me or that I’m only part of Chloe Harris. Hardly any of the Twitterverse does. The profile says Chloe is from both NC and Austria so she might have realized I might have been to Boone. But I’m sure there was no way she would have ever remembered seeing my pervious tweets about my friend Wes, who all that know him lovingly call “old hippie man”. Then it hit me. The people reading your tweets have no context to filter your comments through.

So with that revelation, what I choose to do was send her a DM (Direct Message) and try to provide some context to my tweets. I explained I was born and raised in NC, I love Boone and go to the mountains once a month to visit a friend that’s a die hard hippie. I don’t know if she saw it. There was never a response and I noticed she no longer follows Chloe Harris. Which I have no problem with; you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube and it’s her right not to follow Chloe. The romance community is a big place and not everyone in it is going to see eye to eye with everyone else. That’s life.

By now you might be marveling at how long this post is and you might be asking yourself what my point is. My point is that maybe its better went tweeting to the masses to tweet like they’re all aliens with language translators. They understand what you’re saying but might not have any idea where you’re coming from.

Has anyone else out there learned a New Media lesson from Twitter, Myspace or Facebook? Please Share your knowledge!

It Was Lust at First Read

What I’ve been thinking about lately is beginnings, specifically beginnings of books and who you meet first.

I started and almost finished a book over the weekend, The Madness of Lord Ian MacKenzie by Jennifer Ashley. Best thing I've read in a long time. You meet the hero first and let me tell you the first ten pages blew my socks off! I was so attracted too and fascinated by the hero I was hooked very very quickly. It was love, or at least lust, at first read with Lord Ian. :)

I have read perfectly wonderful books where you meet the heroine first. In both Secrets of Sin and Connor’s story you meet the heroine first. In Secrets of Sin, Emiline is meeting with her lawyer on a very important matter and in the sequel Jaidyn is meeting with Madame Poivre with her own very important matter.

In Mary Jo Putney's latest, , Loving a Lost Lord, (which I would recommend and really liked except for the bollywood ending) neither the Hero nor Heroine are in the first scene. The first scene establishes the world for the new series.

Ashely's book made such an impact and hooked me so fast I started to think that you should always meet and hero. But maybe it’s not really about whom you meet but about what’s happening or even where it’s happening.

Is it more effective to draw you, the reader, in with your attraction to the Hero, with the character in the biggest crisis or with the world itself?

(For those that might have seen something similar from me on a loop I belong to. What can I say my kid is going to college on Saturday, my time is short.) lol

Romance and Patriotism

We don't think too much about there being patriotism in romance. It might not be the good old USA 4th of July type most of the time, but it's there.

Like in the great Hitchcock film Notorious starting Ingrid Bergman & Cary Grant. Alicia is the daughter of a former Nazi convicted of treason. The US government plays on the fact that unlike her father she is a loyal American citizen. She's recruited to infiltrate a Nazi group working in Brazil but quickly falls for her handler played by Grant.

So many Historical romances use apposing alliances to create conflict. As in Susan Johnson's At Her Service where two spies fiercely loyal to opposite sides fall for each other during the Crimean War .

Secrets of Sin even has a bit of patriotism when Emilie's dear friend, Monsieur Ameliore, makes it clear in chapter one that he's a patriotic Frenchman concerned with the latest conflict with England.

What about you? With the 4th coming up, where have you seen patriotism in romance?

Feelings vs. Facts - A Different Kind of Research

(I'm posting this early since Construction near my house has temporarily cut my internet service at home)

Although Secrets of Sin features a ship’s captain, our second story also features the ship itself and 18^th century sailing. Which meant doing lots more research for this one.

Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy research. But I have a tendency to get bogged downed and a little lost in it at times and with this latest book, time is something not on your side. When I began to think about where to start I got some good leads for experts and websites etc but I wanted to do something different, something that seemed a little easier and a little more fun. When I think about men and their ships, besides Master and Commander, the one thing that comes to mind is Hornblower.

I really enjoyed the A&E rebroadcast of the British series based on the Hornblower novels of C. S. Foster. And I’m a huge fan of Ioan Gruffudd, the star. I mean he’s gorgeous and from Cardiff, Wales which attracts the Sci Fi geek in me to no end. ;) I looked up the time period and it’s only about fifty years or so later than our book but it is the British navy at war and not a Dutch based Caribbean merchant ship. But I thought, how different can the basics of sailing be? (For those about to tell me, I know the later ships had copper bottoms which was a significant change.)

I thought, wouldn’t watching twelve hours of one of my favorite actors playing a daring hero be so much more fun than stuffy old historical tomes or dry websites build by sailing fanatics talking over my head? Besides even Hemingway was a fan of C. S Foster, how much more highly recommended can something get.

But let me come clean here. I knew I was kidding myself. I knew it was a cop out and that I was just using the research thing as an excuse to watch a program I enjoyed and an actor I think is hot. I was positive I wasn’t getting any work on the book done by watching them. Yet watch them and enjoy them once again I did, in the span of a week or so.

But a funny thing happened when we got to the first chapter aboard ship. I knew things. I felt things. I had a really good sense of the moods aboard ship and the nature of the interactions between the crew. I had no problem imagining how our hero and captain would react in a certain situation because I knew exactly how he felt. I didn’t even have the think twice about how a certain conversation would be more businesslike and less friendly despite the jovial relationship between the characters. Damn if I didn’t learn some valuable things that really did help with the writing.

That’s not to say book research isn’t extremely important. The research B has done about when and how to use sextants, octants and chronometers and how to properly stock and arrange a captain’s cabinet are crucial to the story.

But those very necessary facts and the history in your story come to life when you can set an accurate mood as well. When you can get deeper into building the proper atmosphere in which to set your story it will be all the richer in the reader’s mind.

So next time you have some research to do, hit the non-fiction books and websites for the facts but try to find other forms of fiction and even personal narratives to find the feel of the period too. That’s what I did and got to have fun doing it too!

The Last of the Epic Lovers

I debated what to write about today when I heard on NPR that today is Daniel Day Lewis’s Birthday. Which always makes me think of Last of the Mohicans. Talk about the Adventurer and the Crusader! To me the love story in this movie is one that all others are judged by. Plus DDL is so damned hot!!! And there is the beauty of my amazing state that shines through every scene.

Stories like this, and I’m a sucker for a sad love story, feed my soul. They are what drive me to want to dive into the world of epic love and write my own stories of it. They make me believe in the universe and how wonderful and awful it is to be alive.

So do you have a book, movie or play that feeds your soul and drives you on?

As Eloise Would Say …"Here’s What I like"

I like that Jane at Dear Author tried to have a discussion about the problems with Paranormal Romance even if it turned into a book list / pimp yourself fest instead of a real dialogue.

I like that we are both blogging regularly now.

I like that Samantha is keeping us company on the blog. It gets lonely around here.

I like a lot of the things happening in Madeline Hunter’s latest book, The Sins of Lord Easterbrook.

1. She does a paranormal element the right way. She looks at the hero’s ability in terms of how it effects his relationships with his social network, his family and his heroine in the past, present and future. She uses it to enhance the character and the emotional and internal conflict not to fight bad guys.


2. She brilliantly deals with a modern and relevant topic like drug addiction within the historical context.


3. She takes you to China without actually leaving England. Clever Lady.

Speaking of taking romance out of England, I like the things I’ve been reading with non-traditional historical times and setting like Islands by Samantha Kane, a m/m romance set in the Pacific in WWII and At Her Service by Susan Johnson set in Russia and France during the Crimean War.

I really really like that Sunday is Barbra’s Birthday and I hope she has a great day even if my present is going to be late!

Martha Sandweiss: "Passing Strange" (Penguin)

I found this story completely spellbinding when I first heard it.

Clarence King was a famed explorer, scientist, and hero of late nineteenth century history. But the blue-eyed and fair-skinned King also led a secret double life passing as a black man. A historian examines the secret King only revealed on his deathbed to his black wife of thirteen years.

Martha Sandweiss: "Passing Strange" (Penguin)

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Washboards pressed between two covers

by Barbra


I love books. I am a bit of a bibliophile, true, but above all I’m a bookworm. I have one clear preference, though. I want strong stories that pull a multitude of emotions from me – which isn’t easy, sure, but it can be done. What especially appeals to me is if books are not only well written, but spicy too.

I admit it openly: as reader my expectations are high. As writer they are even higher. I want all the basic ingredients for a good story: the characters must have a Goal that’s worth dying for, psychologically logical Motivation and a clear Conflict. But on top of that the narrative plus some sexy scenes should blow my socks off – which is quite hard, but let me say once again: it can be done.

I’ve read quite a few books that had astoundingly little going on GMC-wise – not to mention the spicy scenes. They were as tantalizing as my new washing machine’s manual. They even read like it: Put tab A into slot B. What you get then is a careening, jerky movement for a few minutes. After that pull out and hang to dry.
Exciting, isn’t it?

But lo and behold, every now and then I discover books that combine everything I’ve wished for: wonderful narrative, a strong plot that make me laugh out loud on one page and cry on the next, and the spicy scenes provoke a reaction out of me other than rolling my eyes or bored yawning. Now I’d like to take this opportunity to thank those authors that met my expectations.

My first erotic romance was Emma Holly’s Ménage a few years ago. I’ve gobbled up her books ever since whether they be historical, paranormal or contemporary. Holly’s skill at forging good stories that also have a deliciously hot element is, truth be told, outstanding. Not to mention her gift for employing the English language at its best. I’m absolutely devoted to her books.

Lisa Valdez’ historical romance Passion has a strong plot that is so romantic it made me actually shiver at times. It was an honest to goodness page-turner. Above all, the sensual scenes were simply delicious. I can’t wait for her next book (Patience) to come out.

Madeline Hunter’s historical romances are simply marvelous. So good in fact that I caught myself wishing once or twice I had a real-life alpha-male Dante by my side!

As for paranormal escapes from reality, Lynn Viehl and her Darkyn books are always a nice treat – and not just because one of the minor heroes in her books is Austrian. I just wished her resource for the Austrian/German language would have been better, i.e. more reliable. I could help her out, of course. She’d only have to ask. Of course, I’d have to overcome first shock then a fangirl moment. But eventually I’d manage, I’m sure.

Last but not least, Lara Adrian’s paranormal “Midnight Breed” series (Kiss of Midnight, Kiss of Crimson, Midnight Awakening - although a reliable German speaking source might have been helpful with that one too - Midnight Rising and Veil of Midnight) is enticing, awesome... in a word sublime.

This of course is just a small list of authors I admire. The more I read, the more it is likely to evolve. But whenever I’m ordering another shipment of books, those names have to be among the many other books. Those authors, you see, make me close a book and sigh with bliss, a content smile on my face. They give me the feeling that I haven’t wasted my time or money – which, I agree, isn’t easy but it can be done. I can only say:
Capital, capital! Ladies, don’t stop writing. You make my day.

Dear Author - Genre Fatigue Poll

I was very interested to watch the results and comments of 

 Dear Author's Genre Fatigue Poll .

 As I said in the comments:

When I started reading Romance I read only Historical. Then because I was watching Paranormal TV I started to read tons of Paranormal. But now it’s lost all interest for me and I’m back to almost exclusively reading and writing Historicals.

The fact that European Historicals are third on the list at the time of my post is very interesting because, from what I know and hear, non-European Historicals are still a hard sale to most major houses. Thank goodness not all! :)

Vintage Romance Covers!!!

OMG I hit the jackpot at the Goodwill today! Check out these classic HQs

These two are from 1986 and 1984

This I just had to have this one, I love a hot ship's Captain. ;)

Now for the find I'm most proud of, it has a hero I've NEVER seen

Let's hear it for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police!!!!!!

WIP - name change.

Just a quick announcement to no one. Geez I always feel like the priest in Eleanor Rigby when I post.

The Work in Progress previously known as 

Plantation Rule 

will now be know as 

Worth Every Rumor