Authorpreneur Dashboard – Lynn Kerstan
The Golden Leopard
Literature & Fiction
Book One of the Big Cat Trilogy Lady Jessica's put the past behind her until one night at an auction, when Duran shows up. He’s back in England, and he has plans that involve her. Can she resist what he has in mind?
Book Bubbles from The Golden Leopard
Big Cat Love Started at the Zoo
Today I went to the Zoo. It’s the world-famous San Diego Zoo, devoted to saving endangered animal species and plant species as well. And it’s a place I profoundly love. When my family moved to San Diego, I was entering my junior year in high school. I knew that attending a local public high school would throw me into an environment where I would be one of thousands of students. Hard to make friends there, and I was pretty smart, meaning I’d likely be resented. Military brats learn this harsh lesson early on, so I desperately wanted to attend the small Academy of Our Lady of Peace. But my parents couldn’t afford it, so to help with costs, I got a job at the Zoo.
A Regency Holiday
Romance
The perfect Regency collection for holiday reading. FOUR Favorite Regency Authors -- THREE never-before-in-print Christmas novellas -- ONE beloved classic now back in print . . . and a partridge in a pear tree . . .
Book Bubbles from A Regency Holiday
Lynn Kerstan's Writings...
When discussing her writing style, Kerstan is honest. “I started writing romance because more people read romance than anything else. Desperation is my muse. When I am writing, I need to know the inciting incident. Which one to start the book with? What is the crisis that you need to change your life? Whether or not to kill somebody? From the inciting incident I’m pretty much good to go. I really write organically. Things happen because my characters do something. “ Her process seemingly works for Kerstan, as in 1996 she won the RITA Award from the Romance Writers of America for Best Regency Romance, an honor she shared with Alicia Rasley. Kerstan has been a RITA nominee five additional times.
A Midnight Clear
Romance
Will the twelve days of Christmas bring them together or leave his family in ruin? Jane Ryder is innocent, plain, poor, and eager for adventure. After taking a job as a secretary with the notorious gossip, Lady Eudora “The Tongue” Swann, she is given the task of transcribing Lady Swann’s scandalous history of the aristocracy, featuring the many promiscuities of the Fallon Marquesses. When the Fallon heir, Charles, returns from India with a self-made fortune, he dedicates himself to restoring the derelict manor house and the infamous family name. Face-to-face, he orders the crafty Lady Swann to leave his family out of the book. Lady Swann offers a sly trade: If he agrees to confide intriguing tidbits of his family history (and of his own rise to fortune) to Miss Ryder, she will tone down his family’s sordid tales in Scandalbroth. At Wolvercote, the centuries-old and long-abandoned seat of the Fallon family, a snowstorm strands Charles and Jane. They’re drawn together in mutual respect, humor, and as time passes, an attraction that cannot be denied, though her lowly station forbids it. When they discover an abandoned infant girl near the stable on Christmas Eve, caring for her together, the formal barricades between them seem to vanish. Can a romance begun on a night of joy and miracles overcome the strict rules of London society? It may take a meddling old gossip named Lady Swann to persuade them that love is the best Christmas gift of all.
Book Bubbles from A Midnight Clear
On a Hometown Article...
I confess to carrying a few copies of the article to the Conference and foisting them on my friends and my publisher. “See! I am, too, famous!” Not to the point where the Coronado bookstore bothers to carry my books, though. I encountered their disdain for romance fiction when I first moved here, back when the store was pretty small and they had to be choosy. They’ve expanded, though, with room for the genre, and the store is really beautiful. But if there were romance novels in stock, I didn’t see them. I swung by the store three times, but never when the staff member who places orders was available. On that front, I give up. And thank God for Amazon, where anyone can buy my books if they want to.
