Pre-Order An Exquisite Marriage

An Exquisite Marriage, the third and final volume of The Regency Makeover Trilogy is now availble for pre-order.  You can read and excerpt and reserve your copy here and now!

Darcie Chats LIVE with Readers

Heads up!  I will be LIVE at the Writer’s Chatroom this Sunday, Feb. 21 from 7pm to 9pm EST.  I’ll be talking about pseudonyms (I have lots), genre writing, good books, bad books, more books, and anything else you guys can think to ask.  Hope to see you there!

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.

Maleficent at 47

THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS! You read that up there about the spoilers right?  Right.  Okay. I saw the original Disney Sleeping Beauty in the movie theater.  I was 9.  Disney was doing one of it’s periodic re-releases of its classic animated features, and Mom took me as a reward for having memorized my multiplication tables  […]

That Old Time Feeling

Writing is, by necessity, a profession of emotions.  This is not going to come as any kind of surprise to readers, especially Romance readers.  Emotions are at the heart of character, and character is at the heart of story.  And at the heart of the human brain is a quirk that by describing a feeling, […]

This Week’s Video Clip

I love movie musicals, especially the dance numbers. As much as I appreciate movie dance mash ups like this one:   I’ve so far only found one that references what is actually the Greatest Dance Number Ever Filmed.  How great is it?  Bill “Mr. Bojangles” Robinson is the warm up:    

This Week’s Video Clip

While This Week’s Video Clip is on the subject of the Nicholas Brothers, here’s one I hadn’t seen before, with some local interest to it:

This Week’s Video Clip

One of my absolute all time favorite romantic movies is unfortunately very hard to find.  It’s the Barretts of Wimpole Street with Norma Shearer as Elizabeth Barrett and Frederic March as Robert Browning and Charles Laughton as one of the creepiest screen villains of all time. A little context for the scene below:  Elizabeth Barrett […]

What Man of Steel Got Right

THIS POST HAS SPOILERS.  GREAT BIG SPOILERY-SPOILERS.  MEGA-MONDO-HUGE SPOILERS OF A MOST SPOILERIFIC NATURE. Okay?  Okay. In the interests of full disclosure, I will say that Christopher Reeves will always be My Superman.  So, I was torn about going to see Man of Steel.  But, lately, super hero movies have gotten so much better, which […]