A Sinner without a Saint
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
No novel is ever completed without the help, encouragement, and good will of many people besides its author. My deepest gratitude to:
My romance writing friends and colleagues, in particular my fellow authors in the New England Chapter of Romance Writers of America. Thank you for allowing me to serve as your president for the past two years! Thanks too, to the members of the online RWA Chapter for historical romance writers, Hearts Through History, and the online RWA Chapter for Regency romance writers, the Beau Monde. I appreciate all the knowledge and expertise members of each group share with generosity and good humor.
Readers and critique partners who continue to praise, suggest, and criticize in just the right balance: Laurie Alice Takes, Judith Laik, Jessica Gibbons, and Anne Marie Rothstein. I continue to grow and learn as a writer from each of you.
My publishing support team, including Sue Laybourn, my editor/copyeditor, and Jenny Q of Historical Editorial, for creating yet another gorgeous cover. You are the best!
The many, many readers who have commented on, and/or disagreed with, the blog posts my alter ego, Jackie Horne, has written at Romance Novels for Feminists. I love the way you challenge my ideas, and push me to think harder about the hows and whys of feminist romance.
My toddler dinner neighbors, especially now that our toddlers have all flown the nest. Thanks to Jessica, Trey, Anita, Norbert, Anne Marie, and Roger for still listening to all my talk about Romancelandia, self-publishing, and sex. And special thanks to Jessica for the lovely author and cover photos. And to Sam for being such an enthusiastic cover model.
Mr. Bennet (my own, not Elizabeth’s), who continues to support me with funny comics and razor-sharp analytical skills. And my own young Miss Bennet, especially now that she is becoming an intelligent, independent woman. You are very right: there are not three f’s in “sniffed.” I love you both so much.
And last, but certainly not least, you, my readers and reviewers. Thank you for taking a chance on my books. There are so many romances of all types being written and published today; it is an honor to know that you’ve chosen to spend your time with mine.
—Bliss
SOMETHING ABOUT BLISS
Despite being born and bred in New England, Bliss Bennet has always been fascinated by the history of that country across the pond, particularly the politically volatile period known as the English Regency. So much so that she spent years writing a dissertation about the history of children’s literature in the period. Now she makes good use of all the research she did for that five-hundred-plus-page project in her historical romance writing.
Bliss’s mild-mannered alter ego, Jackie Horne, muses about the intersections of genre and gender on the Romance Novels for Feminists blog.
Though she’s visited Britain several times, Bliss continues to make her home in New England, along with her husband, her not-quite-adult-yet daughter, and two monstrously fluffy black cats.
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