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With the release of The Thief’s Countess cover and it’s free preview, I am officially in the world as a romance author. As I mentioned on my Facebook page in a live video, this is a dream twenty years in the making. You can read a 
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Thank you for declaring your allegiance. Whether you joined for a free book preview, to be notified of future projects, for fun giveaways or because you love historical/medieval romance . . . thank you. In addition to researching my favorite time period and creating stories 
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  Game of Thrones The one to rule them all, HBO has taken incredible source material and made it almost as spectacular. People who don’t watch Game of Thrones are not really my friends.  
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The following historical romance novel recommendations are based on the premise you’ve already read or watched Outlandar by Dianna Gabaldon and/or A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin. Full disclosure . . . A Song of Ice and Fire happens to be 
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When I started reading romance over twenty years ago, it was Johanna Lindsey who lured me into the genre. Also an avid Jude Deveraux and Julie Garwood fan, it wasn’t long before I finished all of my favorite author’s offerings. Reading romance on and off, 
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An update on my alter ego which anyone following Cecelia Mecca on Facebook already knows: I’ve finally finished my manuscript, and it only took 16 years! At 2:20 am on my birthday in September, I finally wrote “The End” on a manuscript I started 16 
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Once in a class at Penn State working toward a PhD in Curriculum, a professor assigned an article on the romance genre asking the class to speculate why it attracts a lion’s share of readers–13% of adult fiction. (Source: Nielsen Books & Consumer Tracker, BISAC 
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