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Ever since reading Jean Plaidy's 'Queen in Waiting,' I've felt deep admiration for Caroline of Ansbach.

I'm an eighteenth-century girl at heart. I wouldn't mind being set down in London in 1715, in the midst of all the drama of the Hanoverian succession.

It's the exile's dilemma. The home they yearn for is never the home to which they return. If they return.

My official field was Tudor-Stuart England; I also considered myself reasonably competent when it came to Renaissance and Reformation Europe.

Every young girl wants to be a princess. Then, when you find a real-life one, it's very easy to imagine yourself in that role.

My books fall in the wobbly middle between historical fiction and historical romance.

My own inclination is to skew towards humor. They say that some people view life as a comedy, others as a tragedy. Me? Comedy all the way.

Quite definitely a Bingley

This was Hist and Lit, after all. If you couldn't work the term "liminal" into your tutorial, you were doing it wrong.

Her eyes were as hard and bright as stars. Not the pretty sort that poets mooned about, but the kind that made men's destinies. The Orchid Affair

Love doesn't attack; it infiltrates.

Imagination was all very well in the daylight, but it was an uncomfortable thing late at night.

Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.

I'm not sure that teaching a Core course is necessarily the best introduction to teaching.

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She responded to Letty's well-meaning suggestions with the unblinking disdain perfected by cats in their dealings with their humans.

Most of the time, there is no truth, only various levels of interpretation. Fact is a construct we provide to the public.

They were a strange and mercantile people, these Americans. One never knew what they might come up with next.

When I'm in heavy-duty writing mode, there's something great about reading a series. Soothing, but not distracting too much.

Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England

[He] had insisted that inanimate objects couldn't have malignant motivations, but Emma had extensive proof to the contrary.

Tell them I have the headache
no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious.

Turning to Turnip, Miss Dempsey said, 'Do you think?'. 'As little as I can,' Turnip replied honestly.

Did I invent anything? I don't think so, not really. But if I've helped make history fun ... then my work here is done.

About, not to. Prepositions had been invented for a reason.

If I stay in academia, I might end up going someplace random.

Romance tends to be the whipping boy of genre fiction.

If a man took a lover it would be accounted commonplace. Why shouldn't you? Your virtue lies in your mind, not in what lies between your legs.

As a friend once pointed out, the crotchety dowagers do tend to get all the best lines. That may be why I have so many of them in my books.

With the complete lack of shame of the extremely deaf and the complete lack of grammar of the extremely inbred.

LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.

It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature.

Why was it that cheering expressions were invariably so infuriating?

All this rapture," managed Letty, wriggling out of her mother's grasp, "is decidedly premature.

I think sex is a very minor part of most romance novels.

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

I never sat down and said, 'I'm going to write historical fiction with strong romantic elements.' It was just the way the stories went.

People who would never sneer at sci-fi and murder mysteries have no trouble damning the whole romance genre without reading one.

Its nice to know that your common sense stands between me and the grave.

My dear Mrs. Grimstone, sometimes cowardice is merely another word for common sense.

No sin is original, no matter what the bright young things may hope. We're all merely playing to a theme.

I tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I've been thinking about something else.