Valentine’s Day

A Regency Round-Up on Valentine’s Day

There isn’t a lot of information available regarding how Valentine’s Day was celebrated in the early 19th Century. Most Regency Valentine’s cards (mostly handmade love letters) were considered ephemera and not held onto except in rare circumstances. You’ll notice I didn’t title this post as a primer, because I didn’t feel I could speak on…

Love is in the air

Happy Valentine’s Day! It’s time once again for hearts, chocolates, diamonds (no dear, that’s not a hint) and of course free reads from the Romance Divas, who have just wrapped up their third annual e-book challenge where the members are encouraged to write a story and put it up for free. THE DIVAS E-BOOK CHALLENGE…

Diva Free Reads

Romance Divas has just wrapped up their second annual e-book challenge where the members were encouraged to write a story and put it up for free. THE DIVAS E-BOOK CHALLENGE 2008 has some great stories by some fantastic people. Do yourself a favor and run click, don’t walk miss a chance to check out these…

Thursday Thirteen: Today In History

  13 Valentine’s Day Occurrences   Happy Valentine’s Day! No sappy trivia today (see yesterday’s post for that)! Below are just a few of things that occurred on Valentine’s Day in history. There were a lot of others I thought were cool, but had to zap to pare it down to thirteen. 1 ) 278…

Love is in the air…

So… Tomorrow’s Valentine’s Day. I often wonder how someone like me who used to rejoice when the annual Black Hearts Ball rolled around on Feb 14th came to want to write romance? Back in high school, I got dumped on Valentine’s Day. Yeah, a real kick in the teeth. I didn’t realize it at the…