Ask the Author: Patricia Rice
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Patricia Rice
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! I have so many characters who really need their own stories... I just have to wait to see which one shouts loudest.
Patricia Rice
I really cannot remember how I handled this, sorry. Should I ever need to go back and edit, I'll try to keep an eye out. Richard was such an odd character that he probably wouldn't acknowledge credit but be off doing something else. ;)
Patricia Rice
Thanks for asking! So many of my old books are in libraries and used bookstores already that I haven't attempted to set them up in print. But maybe when I'm ready to update the covers, I'll think about it.
Patricia Rice
This ought to be a simple "yes" or "no" answer, but amazingly, it's a little more complicated. Yes, I prefer to stick to the historical in my straight historical romances, of which Lord Meath is one. In my "magic" romances, I add psychic elements that might suit the era ("science" didn't really exist in the Georgian era of the earliest books, so it was just as woo-woo as psychics!) but I still try to keep history accurate. But you ask specifically about "words, dialogue, phrases" and that's where ambiguity emerges. My characters aren't likely to say "hot damn," since that wasn't in usage, but because they're MY characters, if I choose to have one say "bloody hell" in mixed company, that's my choice, even though it's not socially correct. There are words and phrases that have changed meaning over the centuries, so if I use the historically accurate term, it's likely to confuse the modern reader. A writer has to make a lot of choices when it comes to words, and I'm likely to come down on the side of clarity for the reader over accuracy. I hope that answers your question!
Patricia Rice
I'd have to write a perfect world first. Literary worlds must include conflicts, but my perfect world would be peaceful--which makes for really boring reading, doesn't it?
Patricia Rice
Now that my husband is retired, it's going out for a lovely lunch in the middle of the work day. We live in paradise, so I may only be away from my desk for an hour, but it's enough to refresh me for the afternoon!
Patricia Rice
This is an easy one! My mother and her twin brother were given to an orphanage in NYC, but the mother intended to come back for them and never set them up for adoption. She never returned. At the same time, a man with the same name on the birth certificate fell from a three story window and died. I could make a romance and a mystery out of this!
Patricia Rice
This is an impossible question to answer given how many wonderful marvelous romances I have read over the decades. I would have to narrow it down to classics like Scarlett and Rhett (and what's with those double t's anyway?) or Elizabeth and Darcy, which isn't really fair to all the great couples who came later! But I love couples who talk to each other, fight out their differences, and come up loving each other even more.
Patricia Rice
Formidable Lord Quentin is the fourth in the Rebellious Sons series. The protagonists have been dancing around each other for three books now. I just thought it was time to let them loose!
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