{"id":9857,"date":"2012-10-31T07:13:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T11:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theseasonforromance.com\/wordpress\/?p=9857"},"modified":"2012-10-31T07:13:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T11:13:13","slug":"clothes-make-the-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/31\/clothes-make-the-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Clothes Make the (Wo)Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by<\/em> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/maggierobinson.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Maggie Robinson<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Happy Halloween! Trick or treat! I\u2019m knocking on Bev\u2019s door wearing my usual writer\u2019s costume. Do you think I\u2019m wearing the feather boa and heels I wore at the Romantic Times convention? All shall be revealed at the end. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I\u2019m here bearing a treat, I hope, a copy of my newest, sparkliest, nakedist book, <strong>Lord Gray\u2019s List.<\/strong> Lord Gray (Ben) is obviously having a wardrobe malfunction. We historical purists will forget that Regency shirts didn\u2019t unbutton this way and just go with the flow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maggierobinson.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9860\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"maggie\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theseasonforromance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/maggie.jpg?resize=250%2C168\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>Writing this book was such fun, because Ben\u2019s heroine Evie is no simpering miss. She runs a newspaper, goes undercover to unearth scandal, and wears gentlemen\u2019s clothes. In fact, everyone who\u2019s had business dealings with her for two years thinks she is a man.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Not Ben, though. He\u2019s seen her bottom before, and knows what\u2019s under the trousers and superfine jacket. Ben and Evie had a youthful affair before they went their separate ways, and their reunion is anything but calm. Throw in a riot, an armed urchin, an abusive husband and a streetful of courtesans, and front-page stories about Ben seem pretty tame. <em>RT Book Reviews Magazine<\/em> calls LGL <strong><em>\u201csexy, fun and smart.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the back cover copy:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">From duchesses to chamber maids, everybody\u2019s reading it. Each Tuesday, <em>The London List<\/em> appears, filled with gossip and scandal, offering job postings and matches for the lovelorn\u2013and most enticing of all, telling the tales and selling the wares a more modest publication wouldn\u2019t touch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The creation of Evangeline Ramsey, the <em>London List<\/em> saved her and her ailing father from destitution. But the paper has given Evie more than financial relief. As its publisher, she lives as a man, dressed in masculine garb, free to pursue and report whatever she likes\u2013especially the latest disgraces besmirching Lord Benton Gray. It\u2019s only fair she hang his dirty laundry, given that it was his youthful ardor that put her off marriage for good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Lord Gray\u2013Ben\u2013isn\u2019t about to stand by while all of London laughs at his peccadilloes week after week. But once he discovers that the publisher is none other than pretty Evie Ramsey with her curls lopped short, his worries turn to desires\u2013and not a one of them fit to print.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Evie\u2019s clothes allow her to move about society with a freedom most women didn\u2019t have in 1820. What outfit do <em>you<\/em> wear that makes you feel confident and ready to tackle anything? OR, tell me about your favorite Halloween costume. OR answer both! I\u2019ll give away one signed copy of <strong>Lord Gray\u2019s List <\/strong>to one commenter!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(And my writer\u2019s uniform? Pajamas or a nightgown. Bare feet. Computer gloves. 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