Joanna Bourne – Featured Beau Monde Author
Joanna Bourne is today’s Featured Author for The Beau Monde Regency chapter of Romance Writers of America. She writes Historical Romances set in England and France during the Napoleonic Wars.
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New Book Releases – June 2012
More New Book Releases from authors at The Beau Monde Chapter ( Regency historical ) of Romance Writers of America.
TBM Forum: Working on the Web Round-Up
This month, new articles have been posted in the Working on the Web forum. A search engine optimization article explains how to get the greatest value from the single most important HTML tag on any web page, not only for improving your site’s search engine rankings, but also to enable your visitors to easily return…
The Moral Premise By Cheryl Bolen
Do the scenes in the novel on which you are working sometimes play in your mind like a movie? That could very well work to your advantage as you write. In today’s article, Cheryl Bolen shares tips from screenwriters which can help you strengthen the structure of your story.
Lord Byron, the Father of Computer Programming?
A cross-post from The Regency Redingote: Truth or fiction? Essentially, true. Though mathematics confounded him and he was by no stretch of the imagination a computer programmer himself, Lord Byron was the father of the very first computer programmer, his daughter, Augusta Ada Byron. Impossible? Computers are a twentieth-century invention, right? Not so.
Annual Mini Conference & Soiree!
The Beau Monde’s annual one day mini-conference and soiree will be held Wednesday, July 25th during the RWA National conference at the Anaheim Marriott in California. Starting with breakfast and the annual general meeting, the conference will include a variety of Regency-themed workshops throughout the day with knowledgeable presenters, including Candice Hern, Isobel Carr and…
New Book Releases – May, 2012
May 2012 Book Releases – More New Book Releases from authors at The Beau Monde Chapter ( Regency historical ) of Romance Writers of America.
Assembly Room – Roundup of Regency posts by Angelyn Schmid
Assembly Room – A Roundup of Regency and other historical posts byAngelyn Schmid Foolscap and a cockscomb–it’s amazing what you’ll find in the Beau Monde archives, with thanks to The Regency Redingote:Â http://bit.ly/JsU1P3 Regency mail (don’t you just love Susanna’s blog stationary?)Â http://bit.ly/IVW883
Spotlight on Barbara Dawson Smith By Cheryl Bolen
Over the past few years, Cheryl Bolen has been publishing a Spotlight series of biographical sketches of a number of romance writers at her web site. She has graciously allowed us to re-post those biographical sketches here at the Beau Monde blog. Today, we begin with a biographical sketch of award-winning romance author, Barbara Dawson…
A Romance Reader’s Pet Peeves: The 10 That Set Me On Edge Every Time! By Regan Walker
A Romance Reader’s Pet Peeves: The 10 That Set Me On Edge Every Time!  By Regan Walker All readers have their pet peeves and it’s why we love some romances and hate others. I found it rather cathartic to set mine to paper. I wanted to speak for other readers whose reviews I see on the…