• “The Top Historical of 2005”
~ Patricia Rouse of Rouse’s Reading Groups
• Other contests pending
To be included in future updates.
The release of this book brought two major high points for me. The
first came about before the book went on sale, when I found out
that Waldenbooks and Borders were going to be showcasing the whole
Knight Miscellany series in one of those front-of-the-store, cardboard,
stand-up display thingys called a “riser.” It had a
sort of poster on the top of it using the graphics from the cover
of One Night of Sin, and below, there were enough slots to display
all six installments of the series. Over 140 stores were going to
have risers with my books. It was so exciting for me!
Once the book came out, it did great at Waldenbooks/Borders, no
doubt because of the great support, but I was also shocked and just
thrilled to see it land on Barnes & Noble’s in-house mass
market (paperback) bestseller list at number FOUR after Nora Roberts,
Dan Brown (DaVinci Code), and Christine Feehan. ~ GF
The Author Note at the back of the book offers some information
on whist and the Regency craze for gambling, Russian politics, the
Cossacks, fashionable bachelor lodgings modeled after the famous
“Albany,” and bathing tubs of the period.
I am not reproducing the Author Note here because it contains spoilers
that could ruin the outcome of the story for those who haven’t
read it yet.
Famous Foleys of the Regency Period
It has often been said that writers and other artists tap into some
unseen realm from which their creations flow—the collective
unconscious, as Jung called it. The notion is that all of humanity’s
experiences are stored “somewhere,” whether in another
dimension or in our DNA, and that this vast reservoir of human experience
can be mysteriously accessed through flashes of insight or, more
deliberately, through a deep meditative thought process similar
to the artist’s trance. I have had enough firsthand experiences
of this strange synchronicity to convince me that the phenomenon
is real (though I have no idea how it works). Weird little coincidences
having to do with my writing are always happening to me. Read
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