So excited about the cover for the latest book in the Penningtons’ series, A Lady without a Lord! My cover model is an actual world-ranked fencer, and gave me advice about the fencing scenes the book… [Read more…]

I’m in the final stages of drafting Theo Pennington’s story, book #3 in The Penningtons series. And so I’m also working on putting together a cover for the new book, which will be titled A Lady without a Lord. Curious about how a cover gets designed? Step behind the curtain, and I’ll take you on a quick tour…

For me, step one is choosing a cover model, and then sewing her a historically-accurate dress to wear. Lucky for me, my daughter has a lot of friends who are eager to brag that they’ve been featured on the cover of a romance novel… [Read more…]