tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-98732352024-03-14T04:53:28.769+00:00Kate AllanThe online diary of Kate Allan, authorUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger267125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9873235.post-1164964858389186812006-12-01T09:19:00.000+00:002006-12-01T09:20:58.406+00:00Regency Wiltshire excerptA new excerpt from Perfidy and Perfection is on UK Historical Romance.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9873235.post-1163763853404184852006-11-17T11:31:00.000+00:002006-11-19T22:57:54.200+00:00Fateful Deception has landedMy author copies of Fateful Deception, out this month with Linford Romance, arrived this morning.The cover is fantastic, completely in keeping with the characters and the period (1810). So happy.And then there was the email that came today from my editor at Linford Romance offering to buy The Restless Heart! Way hey! I guess it will be out in around a year's time. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9873235.post-1163426119649380042006-11-13T13:51:00.000+00:002007-01-17T05:46:45.020+00:00Scary querying effortPut my query letter + copy of The Restless Heart in an envelope to query it with Linford Romance today. Now, just have to do the scary thing of posting it later. Throwing oneself open to rejection always makes me shake, so I need to get a more of the day over before I take an hour out to get over the adrenaline... there is ironing that needs doing...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9873235.post-1163020050221088842006-11-08T21:03:00.000+00:002006-11-09T08:57:52.236+00:00Marketing for Authors 2.0My Marketing for Authors blog has a new home and look at Wordpress.com. I spent rather too many hours trying solve problems with it in Blogger, and in the end decided it would be a good opportunity to move it to a different platform. Here you read about my life not writing books and doing author stuff, but on another side of the fence as a book publicist.Strangely enough this blog in blogger has Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9873235.post-1162725637025158162006-11-05T11:11:00.000+00:002006-11-05T11:21:57.716+00:00Review in Hertfordshire Life"Fun and lively" says the review in this month's Hertfordshire Life of Perfidy and Perfection. A great review, and I'm really pleased. Unfortunately the magazine has seen fit to spell my name wrong - as Allen. No, it's Allan. Please, please, please editors everywhere, take care to spell author's names correctly. It matters, not just because we're fussy but because if someone does want to look my Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9873235.post-1162297746994314022006-10-31T12:26:00.000+00:002006-10-31T12:29:07.020+00:00Book's out tomorrowFateful Deception published by Linford Romance is offically published tomorrow! Not had any author copies yet... so still don't know what it looks like.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9873235.post-1161947416135101212006-10-27T12:02:00.000+01:002006-10-27T12:12:54.433+01:00Regency ReadsRegency Reads, the new ebook imprint for Regency fiction from Belgrave House, is launched!Check it out, and if you like Regency fiction don't forget to purchase a copy of Fateful Deception by Kate Allan... :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9873235.post-1161620680361581912006-10-23T17:22:00.000+01:002006-10-23T17:24:40.413+01:00Review by SingletitlesReview for Perfidy and Perfection by Singletitles:In her debut historical romance, Kate Allan blends moving romance, wonderful wit and nail biting intrigue in a spellbinding tale which will remind readers of the wonderful stories of Georgette Heyer and Jane Austen! Read more.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9873235.post-1161546169830463822006-10-22T20:38:00.000+01:002006-10-22T20:42:49.853+01:00NominatedAn email out of the blue: Perfidy and Perfection has been nominated for the All About Romance 2006 cover contest. Don't know if this means it will make the short list but pleasing nonetheless. I love the cover which was painted by artist Barbara Walters.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9873235.post-1160859172636976782006-10-14T21:48:00.000+01:002006-10-14T22:00:36.666+01:00Excerpt from The Restless HeartA short excerpt from The Restless Heart.Bella has agreed to go for a ride in the countryside with the enigmatic Mr Davenport...Mr Davenport drew King up to her. ‘Miss Oakley, it is of course my intention that the correct form should be observed.’ He was looking not at her but at something at the top of one of the tall beech trees.‘Correct form?’ Bella felt herself frown. There was nothing very Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9873235.post-1160252312321812452006-10-07T21:14:00.000+01:002006-10-07T21:18:32.350+01:00The Restless HeartAnd here is the cover:I've posted a short excerpt on UK Historical Romance blog.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9873235.post-1160236888750286872006-10-07T16:52:00.000+01:002006-10-07T17:01:28.780+01:00BotherationArrived this morning in a bright white padded envelope from Dundee: six copies of The Restless Heart, just published by DC Thomson as a My Weekly Story Collection paperback. If you'd like a copy get to the shops quick as it'll be on the shelves now.I'm pleased with the title they've decided on. I'd called this story Journey to Love, but never really liked that title. It was the first manuscript IUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9873235.post-1160142967296085162006-10-06T14:50:00.000+01:002006-10-06T14:56:07.323+01:00Review from the Historical Novels ReviewA review for Perfidy and Perfection was in the latest issue of the Historical Novels Review. Here it is in full:Allan has written a lively tale of a female author in Regency times, when it was supposedly not quite the thing for a lady to write a novel. Sophy has very little experience of life but her first novel is a success. Now she has to experience something new to write about, and that Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9873235.post-1159908123159032082006-10-03T21:31:00.000+01:002006-10-03T21:43:08.506+01:00Samantha David and HeathcliffI forgot to mention that I met week before last in London for dinner Samantha David, whose first novel, I Married a Pirate, will be published in July 2007 by Myrmidon Books who I do publicity for.Needless to say being both women-of-literature we got into a discussion about romantic heros, and this was echoed by part 2 of the BBC TV series on romantic fiction, Reader, I Married Him last week. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9873235.post-1159638329374829842006-09-30T18:38:00.000+01:002006-09-30T18:45:29.396+01:00The politics of bloggingI'm not so interested in party politics to blog about it, but I'm interested in the internet and in marketing, and the launch today of "Webcameron" is, as a piece of marketing, brilliant.The leader of the UK opposition party, David Cameron, has launched his own blog; not only does it show him as more youthful and up to date than Prime Minister Blair by implication of him being technologically up Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9873235.post-1159908345706655982006-09-12T21:43:00.000+01:002006-10-03T21:45:45.706+01:00Me in another Regency-ish dressPics from my recent wedding are exclusively available here (scroll down) on UK Historical Romance blog. :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9873235.post-1153586643459892472006-07-22T17:40:00.000+01:002006-07-22T17:48:51.016+01:00Fateful Deception out in November!Just looking myself on amazon today (as you do) and I notice that my short novel, Fateful Deception, has been listed and will be published 1st November this year in large print as part of the Linford Romance Series imprint. It's currently available as an ebook from Belgrave House and it was already previously in print as a serial cheap paperback but it will be really exciting to be able to have aUnknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9873235.post-1152830760446543062006-07-13T23:28:00.000+01:002006-07-13T23:49:20.490+01:00Time periods and locationsStuff happens faster than I can blog it... so if you want to catch up on the Romantic Novelists' Association Conference, there's posts from Michelle Styles, Julie Cohen, Amanda Ashby, Nell Dixon and Fiona Harper.What I was wondering about today was time periods... in terms of settings for fiction. I had a chat last night with someone at my writers circle about how great Roman-set fiction was (Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9873235.post-1152170661591469432006-07-05T20:22:00.000+01:002006-07-06T08:24:21.620+01:00MySpaceI have a MySpace site now:http://www.myspace.com/katebooks:)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9873235.post-1151436788420481002006-06-27T20:26:00.000+01:002006-06-28T10:18:58.593+01:00Fahrenheit 451In St Albans, the city where I live, there is a proposal to shut 2 of the 4 libraries.I tried to imagine a world without libraries, my childhood without libraries. I'm not sure I think much of a society which dosen't value libraries. I don't know what the problem is but shutting branch libraries is not the answer. Everyone should have access to the learning and entertainment facilities of a localUnknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9873235.post-1149973581130595442006-06-10T22:04:00.000+01:002006-06-10T22:06:21.160+01:00Another reviewAnother review for Perfidy and Perfection:If you're a fan of the works of Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, and other female writers of that era, then you're sure to enjoy PERFIDY AND PERFECTION, a Regency era romance whose heroine, Sophy, writes secretly under a man's pseudonym. Well written, with likeable characters and a plot that works surprisingly well, PERFIDY AND PERFECTION is entertaining andUnknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9873235.post-1148940296883745092006-05-29T22:49:00.000+01:002006-05-29T23:04:56.906+01:00Bank holiday keyboard tappingOne great thing about a bank holiday weekend is that despite being busy what with seeing some relatives and friends, and going to the cinema to see the Da Vinci Code* the extra day has enabled some hours to be spent at the keyboard and I've tapped out about 1000 words. Hurrah.The downside of making some progress on the wip seems to be a rise in a level of doubt that the thing is any good. I so Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9873235.post-1148502411884688692006-05-24T21:14:00.000+01:002006-05-24T21:26:51.920+01:00Review from RakehellPerfidy and Perfection has been reviewed at Rakehell:"you are very likely going to enjoy this novel - especially if you are a Jane Austen or Georgette Heyer fan""a good story, well written, and had me laughing out loud at parts" Great! After all, it is supposed to be a comedy. :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9873235.post-1148125790546594342006-05-20T12:48:00.000+01:002006-05-20T12:49:50.566+01:00Good newsOffer from Thorpe to publish Perfidy and Perfection in large print for UK/Commonwealth and Canada. I guess this edition will be out in about 12 months time.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9873235.post-1147297082407927362006-05-10T22:14:00.000+01:002006-05-10T22:43:50.190+01:00Elephants in LondonMay, 2006: You may have seen in the news (or for real) the spectacle of a giant 40ft mechanical elephant parading through the streets of London last weekend. More here at the BBC.However, what sprung to my mind first was an incident which occured in London 180 years ago - perhaps the last time that an elephant - this one very real - nearly went on the rampage through the West End...March, 1826: Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1