With so many lovely villages to visit, and no interest in renting a car and driving the narrow roads, Charlotte and I made the brilliant decision to join a tour. The most popular in the Cotswolds is the Secret Cottage Tour, which is a six-hour guided tour of the northern Cotswold villages.
Charlotte was thrilled to be among the 14 on the tour, social creature that she is. Her fellow passengers came from Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, America, Scotland and all over England. And the two...
Part One: The Cotswolds
Charlotte Baker, the heroine of IN SEARCH OF SCANDAL, is always lamenting the fact that a young, unmarried, 19th century lady can go nowhere without a chaperone. Unlike her hero, Will Repton, who can cross oceans and traipse across wide swaths of the Asian continent without any sort of companion at all.
It's an old complaint, really. She yearns to explore new landscapes and meet new people, so perhaps it was unkind of me to mention that I had a trip to the Cotswolds...
With apologies to Courtney Milan, I am sharing the unflattering truth of How I Got My Agent.
In April 2014, I attended my second Chicago-North RWA Spring Fling Conference. On the last night of the conference, there is a Silent Auction to benefit a local literacy organization. Agents and editors offered critiques, the tables were loaded with gift baskets, and author Courtney Milan offered a 25-page critique.
Looking at that bid sheet, the extent of my calculations were something like..she...