Historical Hearts Good News

Another great week on the Historical Hearts blog.

Join us in congratulating the following members on their excellent news.

Annie Seaton is now offering her services as an editor.

So if you have a ms you wish her to edit for

publication  and / or submission

please visit her website here for further details.

Alison Stuart has signed a contract for her novel

'Gather the Bones'

Available soon from Lyrical Press.

Alison calls it her 'Downton Abbey with Ghosts' story.

Sounds terrific and we can't wait to see the cover.

Congratulations, Alison!!

Anne Brear (Whitfield)

Is celebrating the release and beautiful cover love

for two of her historical novels.

'A Noble Place'

and

'The Gentle Wind's Caress'

These covers are just divine and I can't wait to read them both.

(further details below)



Australian Historical Available February 2012

Blurb:

Australia 1850.  Phillippa Noble, strong minded, spirited and adventurous, urges and encourages her parents and her twin to emigrate to the distant land of Australia to begin again. In a new country they can put their tainted past behind them, and Pippa can forget the unrequited love she felt for a distant cousin. Pippa blossoms in the new country and is determined that their horse stud will be the finest in the land. However, circumstances ensure that not all is golden. For every success, she has to bear up under the challenges of bushfire, death, the return of an old love and danger on the goldfields. Her strength is tested as she tries to find the right path to happiness, but it is the near loss of her dearest friend that makes her realise true contentment rests within her grasp and she must not let it go.

English Historical Saga Available June 2012

More details of this story coming soon...



Maggi Andersen has signed a contract to write

a three book series for Knox Robinson Publishing.

The series working title is: 'The Spies of Mayfair'

Book One: 'A Baron in her Bed' - Available Sept 2012

Book Two: 'Taming a Gentleman Spy' - Release date tba

Book Three: title & release date tba

Congratulations Maggi!! Amazing News!!

Congratulations again ladies

and keep the good news coming!

Write Historicals? Steampunk? We know where you can sub it...

At Historical Hearts we are very proud to announce that our own Annie Seaton also known at Ann-Marie Smith has become an  editor for not one but three epublishers!

Below you'll find detailed information on how to sub to Annie and what exactly she is looking for in regards to submissions.

Lyrical Press, Inc Publisher

Ann-Marie is excited about joining Lyrical Press as both an author and editor, and looks forward to reading submissions packed with history and romance. She is also partial to romantic suspense and paranormal romance, and would love to read anything set in Scotland, Ireland or Wales as well as the deep south of the US.

Preferred genres: Contemporary romance, historical romance, steampunk.

Musa Publishing

Annie is the Head Line Editor coordinating all manuscripts for line editing at Musa Publishing. Musa Publishing is currently closed for submissions until January 1 2012. But for a full list of what Musa represent please visit their website.

Still Moments Publishing

Annie is an editor at Still Moments Publishing. Still Moments is currently open to submissions in the following romance genres.

Chick Lit, Romantic Comedy, Contemporary, Fantasy/Magical, Inspirational, Mystery/Suspense, Paranormal, Sensual, Western, Young Adult.

Congratulations Annie for your contribution to all these publishing houses, they are blessed to have you. May your email inbox be filled over Xmas and the new year with lots of historical / steampunk submissions.

But don't forget to keep writing those wonderful Steampunk novels. One of which 'Winter of the Passion Flower' to be released March 2012.

And to the writers submitting their work for representation or publication in 2012, Historical Hearts wish you all good luck!

Historical Hearts Good News

Well, it's been another great news week for the writers of Historical Hearts.

So without further ado, we congratulate...

Maggi Andersen, who has signed a contract with

Knox Robinson Publishing to publish her Georgian Romance

'The Reluctant Marquess' available 8th March 2012

Also...

Knox Robinson Publishing have signed Maggi's two
Regency-set historical romances

'A Baron In Her Bed' available September 2012 and

'The Folly At Falconbridge Hall' available December 2012

Maggi has also been busy creating a wonderful new
book trailer for

'Surrender to Destiny'

This week Anne Whitfield celebrated the release

of her Victorian historical saga novel

'To Gain What's Lost'

To wet your appetite, here's the blurb:

Anna Thornton leads a privileged life, but she's not content. When the dashing Matt Cowan sweeps her off her feet, she thinks her boring existence has changed for the better, only all is not as it seems. betrayed and faced with family secrets, Anna flees her home. Taking her trusted maid with her, she begins a new life, which is filled with events that will test her strength and self belief. However, fate sends a man to heal her heart, but will she trust herself to another again? Will the past recede enough for her to see a brighter future?

Available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords all all good book stores.

Our very own talented, Annie Seaton (Anne-Marie Smith)

has become a content editor with Lyrical Press Inc Publishing.

If you would like to see what manuscripts Anne is acquiring

please refer to her page at Lyrical Press here.

And last but certainly not least

Danielle Lisle has signed a publishing contract with

Total-E-Bound Publishing for her

erotic Regency historical

'The Roses Bloom'

1st story in the series called

'The Rogues of Deception'

And it looks like Total-E-Bound are going

to publish the other two as well. Woo HOO!

Huge congratulations ladies

and keep the good news coming!