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Exclusive FREE READ! from Elisabeth Hobbes
You read it here first folks! Our exclusive Free Read this month is an extract from Elisabeth Hobbes book A Midsummer Knight's Kiss
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#FreshStart - Michelle Styles
Michelle Styles shares her hopes and plans for 2019, including being part of a new Viking continuity and developing some of the changes she&
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Exclusive FREE READ
Our FREE READ for August is from PHS columnist Virginia Heath, who brings us an exclusive scene from her historical romance The Mysterious L
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#Rebranding - Genre-Jumping and Series Revamping
As part of our special PHS Rebranding Edition, Jenna Kernan is talking about moving between genres and revamping past series...
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Viva La Difference: Gaps in History
Are we avoiding difficult periods in history when writing historical romances? Is it a hard sell to set a story in times of Slavery, when be
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Rewriting Jane: The Governess Tales
We're delighted to have Lucy Sheerman sharing a version of the paper she's presenting at the PGCWWN Conference this weekend, focusin