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If you’re a writer, you’ve experienced it at one time or another. If it was a disease, we’d all be wiped out by it. Thank goodness it only makes us human. Today please welcome Miranda Neville<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a> to the blog as she discusses the writers she most envies and celebrates the release of her sophomore book, THE WILD MARQUIS<\/strong> (You know you wouldn’t have your marquises any other way \ud83d\ude09 ).
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\nWriter Envy: Who Do I Wish I Was?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"I just read (I know, years late) The Smoke Thief<\/strong> by Shana Ab\u00e9<\/em><\/span>. One reason I knew it was a good book was that I kept thinking \u201cThis is so good. I should write a book like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course I can\u2019t. Ab\u00e9\u2019s prose is lyrical and lush and her subject matter is paranormal. My own writing style is more earthbound and ironic. But that doesn\u2019t save me from committing the sin of writer envy. Certain writers regularly inspire me with jealous torments.<\/p>\n

I love the way Liz Carlyle<\/em><\/span> sets a scene, especially a sordid scene. The opening of Tempted All Night<\/strong>, for example. Without going into a lot of description, she makes you see the shady pub \u2013 and incidentally tells you a whole lot about her hero.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s generally said that a man can be known by the company he keeps, and Tristan Talbot was likely the only fellow in London who went dicing with his manservant. That his servant disdained the Three Shovels as beneath his dignity served only to further illuminate the level to which Tristan sometimes sank. And illumination was direly needed at the Shovels, for the place was dark as a den of thieves.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Actually, it was a den of thieves. And rogues and sharps and bawds\u2014even the occasional gentleman out for a low-class lark. From somewhere deep inside the low-ceilinged alehouse, raucous laughter rang out\u2026.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m always telling people Janet Mullany<\/em><\/span> is the funniest historical writer around, though why I bother to qualify the statement I don\u2019t know. Can\u2019t think of any funnier in any genre. Only Janet\u2014in the Rules Of Gentility<\/strong>— would set her marriage proposal in the bathroom.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat are you doing in there?\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a water closet. What sort of question is that?\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWell hurry up. I want to propose to you.\u2019 He thumps on the door again and mutters something about women taking so long in there. It must be all the petticoats.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

My papa comments that he\u2019s always thought it so too.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"The\u00a0 Wild Marquis<\/strong>
\nAuthor: Miranda Neville<\/a>
\nPublisher: Avon\/HarperCollins
\nPub. Date: March 9, 2010
\nISBN-13: 978-0061808708
\n384 pages<\/span><\/p>\n

He is notorious for his wretched morals and never received in respectable houses. The ladies of the ton would never allow him in their drawing rooms . . . though some of them have welcomed him into their bedchambers. Rejected from his father\u2019s house at the age of sixteen, he now lives a life of wanton pleasure. So what could the Marquis of Chase possibly want with Juliana Merton, a lovely, perfectly upstanding shopkeeper with a mysterious past?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A moment\u2019s indiscretion?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A night\u2019s passion?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Or a lifetime of love?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Even the wildest rakes have their weaknesses . . .<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I envy Eloisa James<\/em><\/span>\u2019 ability to effortlessly convey romantic deliciousness, as in this random page from Desperate Duchesses<\/strong>, perhaps my favorite Eloisa.<\/p>\n

\u201cDamon was well aware he was consumed by lust. It was a dangerous state. He\u2019d never before experienced it as a sort of waking fever dream, as the past few days when he walked the halls of Beaumont House merely so that he could catch a whiff of Roberta\u2019s perfume, or see the flutter of her dress retreat around a corner.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anna Campbell\u2019s<\/em><\/span> dark sensuality leaves me gaping. How does she do that?<\/p>\n

\u201cHe told himself her body was all he wanted.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The declaration sounded laughably hollow. The feverish encounter had bitten more deeply than the fleeting demands of flesh alone ever could, however much he wished it otherwise.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

She took a shuddering breath as he settled at her side. He fought the urge to stroke the damp black hair back from her brow. She wouldn\u2019t welcome his tenderness, he knew with piercing regret. (Claiming the Courtesan<\/strong>)<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Among the many things I envy in Susan Elizabeth Phillips<\/em><\/span> is her ability to construct a big multi-character ensemble scene. The most fun may the one where a horde of giant professional sportsmen invade the heroine\u2019s house (\u201cGet your big-ass shoes off my sofa cushions.<\/em><\/span>\u201d) My favorite is the dinner party in Ain\u2019t She Sweet<\/strong> when Sugar Beth turns an event designed to humiliate her into a triumph. We see her emerge with grace and dignity and Colin\u2019s emotions turn from revenge to shame to love. There\u2019s nothing I find more satisfying than seeing the tables turned.<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s Loretta Chase<\/em><\/span>. I\u2019d kill to write like Chase. All I can do after devouring one of her books is to pray that some of her genius rubs off on me.<\/p>\n

Among your favorite authors, can you pinpoint exactly what aspects of their work you like the most? One answer will win a signed copy of The Wild Marquis<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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