Authorpreneur Dashboard – Jill Barnett
Wonderful
Romance
War weary knight, Merrick de Beaucourt, wants nothing more than a simple life, a peaceful wife, and to oversee his new earldom. What he gets instead are orders from his king, Camrose Castle on the wild and rebellious Welsh borders, and a completely unbiddable wife. For six long years, Lady Clio has waited for her betrothed..waited, and waited. Once the news arrives that he is returning, Clio returns to Camrose to again await the man who ignored her, but now determined to make him pay for the years she languished in a convent. Clio leads Merrick on a merry chase, and she takes on the role of an independent alewife, driven to discover the lost recipe for ancient “heather ale,” a magical beer first made by the Picts. Surrounded by the enchanted mists that circle Camrose Castle, these head-strong adversaries embark on a sometimes passionate, sometimes hilarious battle of wills in this unusual 13th Century tale of a brave knight who seeks to claim--and tame--his bride, or so he thinks....
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On Writing Humorously...
Some of it (humor) comes really well at 2 a.m. after three pots of coffee. It's a very difficult topic to talk about because humor is very subjective. What is funny to one person isn't funny to another. I don't know where it comes from, just that my ideas start off a little bit off kilter. For instance, in the book I'm working on now, the first line just hit me. The ideas for things just hit me all of a sudden and I don't know whether it's the way I think or if I see love and relationships starting off as funny and not ending up that way. I had decided to write a medieval and that it was going to be a romp because she's an ale maker. I had read somewhere that the only way women could make money independently in medieval times was making ale. Oh, an ale maker - would she make it correctly? Well, sometimes the brewing goes off a little bit and things don't exactly work - things can explode. And horses love ale, so what would happen to a knight whose horse had drunk a bit too much ale?
