• Book Launch,  Darcie Wilde,  New Releases

    The Regency Makeover Trilogy is Complete!

    They were dismissed as hopeless—girls too plain, too shy, too gauche to stand any chance in the ruthless competition of the London season. But Helene Fitzgerald, Madelene Valmeyer, and Adele Edmundson have no intention of remaining wallflowers. Aided by the notorious novelist, Deborah Sewell, they form the Wallflower Pact and set out to find true love for themselves—and maybe even their chaperone. Now you can read the whole story — the lives, loves and triumphs of: Lady Adele Endicott — The Bride Behind the Curtain Miss Madelene Valmeyer — The Stepsister’s Triumph Lady Helene Fitzgerald — An Exquisite Marriage

  • Book Launch,  New Releases,  Writing

    Announcing New Books from Darcie Wilde

    The contracts are signed, and now it can be told!  My next two books will be….MYSTERIES!  Set in Regency London, A USEFUL WOMAN will follow the life and struggles of Rosalind Thorne, a gently bred woman of reduced circumstances with the unenviable job of trying to untangle a mystery involving the corpse discovered in that most excluve of London ballrooms…Almack’s.

  • New Releases

    Goodreads Giveaway!

    There’s still time to win the book Publisher’s Weekly is calling one of the most anticipated of 2014!  Sign up to win your free copy of THE ACCIDENTAL ABDUCTION! Contest keeps going until August, 19, 2014.

  • Book Reviews,  New Releases,  Silver Fork Novels

    Reading the Regency — Almack’s

    I’m writing this on Book Day.  Lord of the Rakes is in stores an online today, so naturally I’m all about that.  (Note: If you haven’t noticed elsewhere on this page, you can read an exerpt and order your copy here.) But I’m still all about reading, and my love of really, really old books.  Today’s book is ALMACK’S, by Marianne Spencer Stanhope Hudson and published by Saunders and Otley in 1826. This is one of the famous (or infamous) three volume novels.  When it came out, the book created a massive sensation, because it exposed (or purported to expose) the secret system by which the lady patronesses — those…

  • Book Reviews,  New Releases,  Silver Fork Novels

    Reading the Regency — Gretna Green in Novel Form

    I’ve developed a new book addiction. I’ve always liked old books.  Really old books.  I admit it.  I learned to read out of the Wizard of Oz, grew up on Alice in Wonderland and E. Nesbitt and company.  As an adult, I discovered Bronte, Austen, Gaskell, and, of course, Shakespere.  What I didn’t know until recently was how many contemporaries Jane Austen had when it came to writing lively, witty romances. The group name for the books were “Silver Fork novels,” as they frequently, but not always, featured noble families behaving badly. Okay, maybe they weren’t all of them quite as good as Miss Austen’s work, but a number of…