This is Part 2 of the free 25K Regency serial novella that I wrote for Christmas. This episode is entitled The Sun God and the Nymph. The next parts are also here…

also writing as R.R. VANE
This is Part 2 of the free 25K Regency serial novella that I wrote for Christmas. This episode is entitled The Sun God and the Nymph. The next parts are also here…
This is Part 1 of a free 25K Regency serial novella that I wrote for Christmas. There are seven more parts I published, during these weeks to Christmas, and you can read them all here on my blog.
A poem I wrote for Halloween, with a Gothic romance feel to it…
I recently saw the new Rebecca (with Lily James and Kristin Scott Thomas) on Netflix, and, like several of my friends, I felt like rewatching Hitchcock’s film instead.
Since Halloween is approaching, I thought about a list of my favorite vampire movies. Not all of these movies are horror films as such, but, in my opinion, each of them has something that makes it special in the vampire genre.
It’s a subtle book and really sensual – it has the atmosphere seeping with eroticism that I’ve always enjoyed about Julie Tetel Andresen’s books.
This is a free story inspired by my abiding love for Eastern European lore in all its forms and for Russian folk tales. It is a humorous YA romance, not as steamy as my other stuff. But I think you will have fun with Izbushka, Baba Yaga’s talking and walking house. Izbushka is the storyteller here, so the perspective is rather unique…
There are several representations in my book that are part of Romanian culture and that my readers are invited to discover. Let’s explore some of them!
These are the songs I listened to and sung in my mind when I was writing A Deep Dark Call.
Winter. Wolves howling and a gloomy manor. The year is 1880. And Lucy Cross has come all the way from London. She has accepted a position as a governess in this remote place. Or, rather, she has been forced by scandal to leave her homeland.