The Write Way Café welcomes author Emma Lane, who delights in research and shares a glimpse of it about Brighton, the setting for her Regency romance.Let’s be candid. Research is a delight and writers probably use every excuse they can get to indulge. I contend it’s my insatiable curiosity that is the culprit. Brighton, located in England, had always been in the back of my mind to discover. In choosing the focus of my next Regency Romance, I promised myself to learn more about that town sitting on the coast. The king to be (George IV) built himself a “castle” there, a home away from home.
Brighton is a beach resort, even today, made popular as a sort of spa by a physician contending that sea water was a health remedy. When Prinny decided to build what some called a monstrosity, his followers flocked to the small town by the sea. Small rentals were built and the town hummed while he was in resident. I plopped a small boarding school off to one side where poor Lady Mary was left for five long years. Her father, an odd man to be sure, left her there without a break for the entire time. Small wonder she used her lively mind to devise ways to fight the boredom.
It didn’t take a large leap to imagine a handsome English spy lurking there on the coast so near France. Lady Jane’s nocturnal jaunts were bound to get her in trouble. Poor young girl had no idea that a kiss could be so very dangerous. Her research and mine were in sync as I looked around the city, and she contemplated the lips of a very handsome pirate. No, he was a spy, but with that bandana tied around his silky fall of dark hair, Jane could be excused for misinterpreting his identity.
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| The Royal Pavilion - Photo from Wikipedia |
Lady Jane seeks antidote for her boredom much like a writer tackles research for a busy mind. Brighton is a delightful town both historical and present day. Try it, you might agree. That amazing creation on the pier is now a museum open to the public.
Lady Jane's Tryst
Ripe for adventure, Lady Jane welcomes the charming pirate who offers her the excitement she craves.Five years at Miss Agatha’s Finishing School for Young Ladies in Brighton, without a single day away, leaves Lady Jane longing for any respite to liven her deadened senses. An accidental meeting with a handsome stranger initiates a journey of danger, excitement, affection, and eventually love, even as Lady Jane wonders if a person could be considered an orphan while still possessing a parent.
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About Emma: Enjoying cold winters and velvet summers, Ms. Lane resides in Western NY. As Emma Lane, she writes Regency historicals. Under the pen name Janis Lane, she enjoys plotting Cozy Mysteries. Every once in awhile, she leaves the greenhouse where she plays with flowers to send out another novel or two.
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11 comments:
This looks like a gorgeous and interesting place to visit! Thank you for being with us today Emma.
Your story sounds intriguing. Thank you for being on our blog!
Called away most of the day! Thanks so much HiDee and company. What a very lovely setup you have.
Emma Lane
Love that photo! Seems like a great setting for a novel, historical or contemporary.
Smiling at your comment about research being a delight for authors. I couldn't agree more, but try telling that to a high school writer. They'd rather get fillings at the dentist's office! I guess it takes a certain amount of patience and maturity to think of research as fun! Best wishes, Emma!
Thanks, Saralyn. Not certain it is a universal problem. I remember getting lost in research in school. So perhaps it's a writer's "dis-ease" only. Or...flash insight! Perhaps it's the freedom to go where we want that's the difference. Who hasn't started off in one place and wound up in another, perfectly happy with the trip.
Brighton is along the coast from me - a great place to set of a Regency novel. A very vibrant community and buzzing sea front. Only thing I don't like about Brighton is finding somewhere to park the car. Good luck Emma with your new release.
I love the Regency research too, but it was a lot harder to do from NZ and then Australia where we are now trying to achieve those subtle nuances that mean so much. Wonderful for you to be close to the place where it all happened!
We are lovers of research too, Emma! Always so much to learn!
We'd love to have you run a similar post on our site...hint, hint! ;)
This looks like an interesting place to visit.
It's on my list, HL Carpenter. You know I love to visit your lovely site. As some of you might know, I am allowed to work in my son's plant nursery and spring is almost upon us. I'm a Gemini and have two loves: playing with plants and writing. Research is a preliminary exercise to writing. We all love it, I think!
Emma Lane
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