Comments on: How Today’s Headlines Can Become Tomorrow’s Historical Romances By Debra Mullins

By: Debra Mullins

Debra Mullins — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:34:52 +0000

Wow, thanks Louisa! I have an excerpt of the new one up on my website even as we speak

By: Louisa Cornell

Louisa Cornell — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:54:30 +0000

This is a terrific post. I LOVE your books, Debra!

And JUST ONE TOUCH is an AMAZING read! For those of you who have not read it, get thee to a bookstore posthaste! You will love it! And I need to read it again, knowing where the inspiration came from.

Truly proves there is nothing new under the sun, it’s all in the telling of the tale.

By: Pat Cochran

Pat Cochran — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:59:36 +0000

Isn’t that the way of mothers? For me: two minutes late, it was grab the keys, we have to go find him/her! Not so with my mother since
she did all the driving. It was be where I’m
supposed to pick you up ON TIME or you get
to walk home! I guess you have to be a bit
tougher when you have nine children!!

Pat Cochran

By: Debra Mullins

Debra Mullins — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:01:26 +0000

It’s all in how you twist it. I think writers tend to look at things from a different viewpoint than other people. We’re always what iffing ourselves into new and amazing worlds!

Of course the downside is when one of the kids forgets to call when they are late, I immediately go right to Dead in a Ditch rather than Wasn’t Watching the Clock.

By: Pat Cochran

Pat Cochran — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:41:33 +0000

It seems as though an author must also be a
puzzle enthusiastic, as well as a writer, in
order to bring a novel together!

Pat Cochran

By: Auriette

Auriette — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:36:25 +0000

I’ve not yet finished a novel, but I love playing the “what if” game — combining elements from real life headlines, Shakespeare’s plays, movies, books, history class (25 years ago I used to make notes in the margin about how a certain historical situation resembled the plot of Star Wars or how a foreign culture would make a great planetary culture in a science fiction story). Thanks for sharing the examples of how you use modern issues in the Regency world.

By: Debra Mullins

Debra Mullins — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:17:04 +0000

Thanks for all the nice comments!

By: Tamara B.

Tamara B. — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:15:27 +0000

I have always loved reading Historical Romances.

By: RobynL

RobynL — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:48:18 +0000

someone who closely resembles him is impersonating him — can’t imagine what that would be like apart from being ‘in hell’ so to speak.

By: Pat Cochran

Pat Cochran — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:40:37 +0000

I say to everyone: take great care of all that
you do in this life! You could end up in the
headlines! And you never know when an
author (or 2 or 3) could spot them, then you
are the hero/heroine in a novel!

Pat Cochran