Nina Rowan

Nina Rowan has asked me to help her as an editor, sounding board, and research assistant. Nina plans to write a five-book series set in Victorian England using the five gorgeous, intriguing, sexy members of the Hall family as the central characters. I’m having a lot of fun finding amusements in Victorian London for them [...]

Joanna Bourne

I am so thrilled to announce that RITA award-winner Joanna Bourne has asked me to help her with some fact-checking for her new book . Joanna is a fellow francophile, and shares my enthusiasm for discussing word usage ad infinitum, or, to some, ad nauseum.

But you see what this means, don’t you? I get [...]

Contemporary voice in a historical novel – from the Eloisa James & Julia Quinn BB

I’m currently writing a romance set in 1821 and I’ve been getting conflicting advice from people who are also writers, but who don’t necessarily read/write in this genre. I’ve gotten reviews that the dialogue and internal thinking is spot-on, but others feel that my characters are too “modern” in their thinking. My question for you [...]

Loving Il Divo

June 3rd  was an absolutely fabulous day for me. I had tickets to attend the Il Divo concert in Portland with my dear friend Ann, who admits to being (almost) as big an Il Divo fan as I am. My husband and I drove up from Eugene in his cute little sports car after a [...]

A nice way to start the holiday weekend.

[Also posted on the Editor & Researcher page]
Courtney Milan wrote this about me:
Franzeca is thorough, intelligent, and well-informed.  She is like a one-woman army of research assistants, and she comes equipped with an exhaustive knowledge of historical times, an unerring sense for period language, and a copy-editor’s feel for smooth prose.  She is a perfectionist, [...]