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Hey, I just got a partial request from a query I sent out in June! Right on with that.
Now, since I'm working on a new novel, I'm going to have to dig up the old one...
In the meantime, Kate Rothwell's dead-on skewer of the Regency Christmas romance:
Bring on some of Metzger's cute talking animals! A reformed sinner leading his former companions to a white Christmas in his country house! A jaded, rich lord who sees Christmas through a hired poor woman's eyes and falls in love (Balogh's specialty)! Prattling lisping children who transform the hardened rake into mush! The shy preacher who falls in love with the lady! The wounded withdrawn war hero who finds love with the shy governess! And lots and lots of snow in parts of England that rarely get more than a flake or two! Ending, one hopes, with the h/h standing by a window and seeing the Christmas Star.
I'm still laughing.
posted by Abby @ 6:59 PM
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addendum--I don't know how I forgot these!
golden haired tots get their strapped and widowed mother to take in a lodger against her better judgement, a bitter ex-soldier who's actually a duke's estranged son. Touching reunion with dying dad (also forced on adults by tots) followed by ex-bitter ex-soldier inheriting a ton of money and a title.
Two people (lonely man, lonely woman) unknowingly share an animal cat or find a lost child that belongs to the other. Fighting over lost cat/child followed by realization that they can share cat/child. The star is optional in this one--it usually ends with cat/child asleep under a Christmas tree.
Little old lady slips and falls and pretends to be injured in front of rich lord's house. He is forced to take her in and soon falls for her granddaughter/god-daughter/nurse. Turns out to be entirely plotted by old lady.
This is a clear sign that I should lay off the Regencies.
PS Congratulations on the query!
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