駆け引きは甘く華やかに

by Susan Johnson, Katherine O'Neal, Pam Rosenthal

とろけるほど甘く、驚くほど大胆に。
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ヒストリカル・ロマンス3編を収録。

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19世紀、まだうらぶれた通りだったリージェントストリートに建つ、かつて秘密の楽しみを提供していた館。その館を入手した男のもとに、館の権利を譲ってほしいと訳あり風の美女が訪ねてきた。男は交換条件を示す。

Tankobon Hardcover

Published December 1, 2007

About the author

And it all began rather serendipitously. Long ago, as they say, in another time, when fast food hadn't reached our area and the only shopping was what the feed mill offered, I was reading a book that annoyed me .

My husband was lying beside me in bed, watching TV. Turning to him, I sort of petulantly said, "How the hell did this book get published?"

"If you think you're so smart," he replied, with one eye still on the TV, "why don't you write a book?"

So I did. And very badly.

I've since learned how to do, he said, she said, and a great variety of other adverb heavy, sometimes lengthy explanations of why my characters are saying what they're saying, along with finally coming to an understanding of what things like POV means. Point of View for you non-writers}.

Although, I still don't fully comprehend why it matters if you switch POV and I cavalierly disregard it as much as possible. So while my technical skills have hopefully improved, what hasn't changed is my great joy in writing. There's as much pleasure today in listening to my characters talk while I type as fast as I can, as there was the first time I put dialogue to paper--in long-hand, then, in my leather bound sketch-book.