TABBY ROYCE has been trained as an apothecary by her late papa. On Papa’s death, her brother and his new wife, turn her off and she has to find any work to survive. This in due course leads her to Edinburgh where she becomes embroiled in the activities of a medical household where the master and his steward, CAL MORRISON, are anatomists.
So, what greater prompt can there be than one of Ulverscroft’s fabulous covers. This is from the library edition of A Maid and a Man which is published on 1st April and I’d be hugely pleased if you were to pop into your local library and place an order.
PLR payments will be made in March and may I also thank all the lovely library borrowers who’ve made mine worth receiving. I notice that of my four books currently in the system, Courting the Countess was the most popular. Maybe I’ll get into the Edinburgh regency sitting in my files and finish it!
As some of you will know the PLR site was compromised, so I’m not able to add either Christmas at Maldington or A Maid and a Man at the moment. Even so, if you do borrow or reserve either, I hope you’ll enjoy.
Meantime I’ve sent off a summer short story, a non-seasonal short story and I’m working on a Christmas one. At least I don’t have to hire in a snow blower/maker.
Literary trivia for March: On a walking tour of Exeter many years ago, I picked up a meaning of ‘Living on a shoestring’. People incarcerated in the local debtors’ prison would tie their shoelaces together and lower them from their cell bars. Outside family or friends would tie bundles of food and other necessities to the shoestrings. The felon would haul them up.
Anne
Novels Now 
Yes, Anne you should finish the Edinburgh Regency if you have one started! I enjoyed Courting the Countess . I enjoy most Regencies – except some of the American ones with more sex details than story. I never read any books similar to the ones I write in case I accidentally absorb some bits. Re the PLR I thought most of us had an email recently telling us how to register the new books by email for now. These scams are a real curse. Joffe Books are very good at marketing and earning royalties, but slow with the publishing since they took over Choc Lit and Lume books. Lume had taken over a lot of mine to convert to e-books, so Joffe have all 30 of them now, plus two new ones which they have accepted for publication but I don’t know when. I think one will be out this year sometime. I have another nearly finished if I get there. I never write a series now because I think each one will be my last at 87. I have willed the copyright to my granddaughter – just in case someone wants to read them sometime, but I think they will think they’re very old fashioned to new generations with all the techy stuff used these days – as much in farming as anywhere else with robotic milking machines and drones selecting crop treatments etc etc. I am terrible at remembering names these days but I wondered if Lynne Otty has ever tried the Edinburgh club. Bye for now with very best wishes. Gwen http://www.gwenhttp://www.gwenkirkwood.co.ukhttp://www.gwenkirkwood.co.uk
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Hi Gwen, 30 books – well done. Will reply privately, Anne
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