Today I'm delighted to welcome fellow Aussie historical author Tamara Gill, who is celebrating the release of her Regency novella, A Marriage Made in Mayfair. The cover is absolutely sumptuous!
Here's a little about Tamara, pinched directly from her website!
Tamara's love
of history started from an early age, but her reading of historical
romances only began when home on maternity leave with her second son.
Her writing career started as a hobby but soon turned into an
obsession—just ask the members of her family, who have suffered many a
whipped up, burnt meal.
Member of Romance Writers of Australia, Romance Writers of America, South Australian Romance Authors and The Beau Monde keep her occupied and focused on her craft and the changing trends of readers. Tamara lives in the beautiful Barossa Valley in South Australia and enjoys hearing from readers and writers alike.
Member of Romance Writers of Australia, Romance Writers of America, South Australian Romance Authors and The Beau Monde keep her occupied and focused on her craft and the changing trends of readers. Tamara lives in the beautiful Barossa Valley in South Australia and enjoys hearing from readers and writers alike.
(No wonder we're friends. My poor family have suffered countless burned offerings over the years!!!)
Thank you for taking the time to drop by my blog, Tamara. It's great to have you here! Could you please tell us a little about yourself
Thank you Christina for having
me as a guest today and letting me talk about my latest release, A Marriage
Made in Mayfair. I’m a South Aussie who writes Regency and time travel romance.
I started to write about 4 years ago as a hobby while on maternity leave. About
a year after I started to write I found Romance Writers of Australia and I’ve
never looked back.
Regency and time travel. Two of my favourite things! Can you tell us a little about your book, A Marriage Made in Mayfair
I had this
fantastic idea about a lord who falls on hard times and an heiress he’d
previously been dismissive of finding love together. It’s a sweet story between
two people from different society spheres who are made for one another. You’ll
have to read it to find out any more. :-)
Blurb:
Miss Suzanna
March wished for one thing, the elusive, rakish charmer, Lord Danning. But
after a frightful first season sees her flee to Paris, such dreams seem
impossible. That is until she returns to London, a new woman, and one who will
not let the ton's dislike of her stand in her way of gaining what she wants.
Revenge on the Lord who gave her the cut direct and perhaps a little flirtation
to show the mighty Viscount what he'll never have.
Lord Danning
unbeknown to his peers is in financial strife and desperate to marry an
heiress. Such luck would have it Miss Suzanna March fits all his credentials
and seduction is his plan of action. Yes, the woman who returned from Paris is
stronger, defiant, and a little argumentative, but it does not stop Lord
Danning finding himself in awe and protective of her.
But will Suzanna
fall for such pretty words from a charmer only after one thing. Or will Lord
Danning prove to Suzanna and himself that she is more than his ticket out of
debtor's prison...
Being incurably nosy, I love finding out what inspires other writers. Can you let us know who or what inspires you and why?
I’m a HUGE Karen
Marie Moning fan. I know she doesn’t write Regency, but she’s just fantastic! I
love every single one of her books and can’t wait to see what she’ll give her
fans to read next. With the simplest words she can evoke emotion, tension
everything a reader wants. She’s amazing.
It's no secret that I am a huge fan of my CPs :-) Do you have CPs? If so can you tell us
how you met up and your process? (see above for my impossible nosiness!!!)
I have one cp,
Joanna Lloyd and I love her to bits. She’s fantastic at grammar and punctuation
which I am not. LOL We met through the Romance Writers of Australia cp program
and just clicked. We’ve been working together now for the past two years.
What's the best and worst things about
writing for you?
Now that I have
a couple of stories published the best part for me would be reader feedback. I
love hearing that someone loved my story and characters and that they didn’t
want the story to end. I love reading those kinds of comments. The worst for me
is time. I never seem to have enough of it and struggle some days to even get
in front of the computer. And if I don’t write I tend to get snappy. ;p
Tamara's debut, a Naughty Nibble, To Sin with Scandal
And finally, do you have any advice or light bulb moment you'd
like to share about getting/being published?
Keep writing
every day. Don’t worry if you never final in a competition or someone says you
should write in a different genre because you suck. I’ve had all these things
happen and said to me. Learn to shrug your shoulders and move on. You’ll never
please everyone at that’s just life. Enjoy what you write and write from the
heart. In time everything else will click into place.
A Captain's Order, A Duke's Command - this gorgeous cover won the Romance Writers of Australia's Best 20 Years of Romance Covers Contest in the Historical Section in 2011 (along with Captive!)
Tamara has also sold two time travel romances to Crimson Romance. The first, A Stolen Season (I've been lucky enough to read this and it's fab!) will be out this August. Defiant Surrender, a medieval romance is coming soon.
Leave a comment for Tamara to go into the draw, at the end of her month long blog hop, to be in with a chance of winning the following fabulous prize:
Postcard Sets
Romance Trading Cards
$30.00 Amazon Gift Card
Copy of A Marriage Made in Mayfair
And a copy of my two previous works
gifted through Amazon.com
(or preferred e-reader store)
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