JOANNA’S BIO JOANNA’S BOOK LIST EDITING & COVER DESIGN
Apologies : ebooks temporarily unavailable
I should explain that, due to a problem with Amazon/KDP, my publishing account was deleted and so all my ebooks have disappeared. Amazon maintains it is unable to reinstate my account and I therefore have to create a new one. That means uploading all my ebooks again from scratch.
It’s going to take a while, I’m afraid, so apologies to anyone who is trying to buy a Joanna Maitland ebook and can’t find any. They will all be back on sale eventually.
I’ll update this information as things change. The Beach Hut Surprise anthology is available again. Plus To a Blissful Christmas Reunion (even though it’s not exactly Christmas, right now) and Lady in Lace. More to come once I have done the new covers for some of them 😉
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LATEST RELEASE OCTOBER 2022
TO A BLISSFUL CHRISTMAS REUNION
Not a lover. No longer even a friend?
Lucy Cairns and Gabriel Bliss were inseparable once. But when Gabe returns after years away and rents land from Lucy’s millionaire father for a tree nursery, their relationship is far from blissful.
Especially in the run-up to Christmas.
Gabe remains professional and distant. His time away has changed him, though he won’t talk about it. He refuses to get close to Lucy, insisting there’s too much of a gulf betweeen the millionaire’s daughter and a struggling, dirty-fingered son of the soil like him.
But then he chances on a 19th century image of Lucy’s manor house with the master and mistress standing proudly outside the main door.
A married couple who look exactly like Gabe and Lucy…
TO A BLISSFUL CHRISTMAS REUNION
Timeslip Romance
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BEACH HUT SURPRISE Anthology
Beach Hut Surprise was reissued earlier this year in a brighter, summery cover, though it’s just the thing to lift your spirits when the nights are drawing in.
My contribution to this beach read anthology is I, Vampire – Romance with Bite. And, yes, it does what it says on the tin. 😉
It’s a new genre for me and I had to go up a very steep learning curve, vampire-wise. But my vampire story was huge fun to write. In fact, I think I’ve fallen in love with Theo. And he knows it. He’s angling to appear again, and he’s already got me writing his next book. Will William appear in it, too? Can’t answer that until the book is finished. Watch this space…
Theo is just your ordinary, run-of-the-mill vampire, taking a seaside holiday at Little Piddling.
It’s peaceful and relaxing in his borrowed beach hut until, one night, a scruffy little boy turns up.
And then Theo is forced to confront a woman he’s tried to forget…
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MORE ABOUT JOANNA MAITLAND
JOANNA’S BIO JOANNA’S BOOK LIST EDITING & COVER DESIGN
I have been reading — and writing! — stories for as long as I can remember and I love to share favourite books. I may write (mostly) romantic novels, but I read all sorts of fiction besides romance — lots of crime, thrillers, fantasy and science fiction, timeslip, historicals. I’m hoping that readers at Libertà will point me to new genres and authors I’ve been missing.
If you’d like a longer bio, it’s here and my full (printable) book list is here.
I also offer cover design as well as editing services. More details here.
And if you’re looking for the research snippets that used to be on my old joannamaitland.com website, you’ll now find them here on the Libertà website. Links are at the end of the same page.
Joanna’s Free Short Story!
To celebrate Burns Night 2016 — I am a Scot, after all — I posted a tongue-in-cheek take-off of Tam O’Shanter with my blog. The story is still available here on the website, as a free read. You can even print it, if you like!
In the Earl’s Mistletoe Bride you talk about the servants “removing the cloth and setting out the dessert and decanterson the polished mahogany”. Please, how did the servants “remove the cloth” whlie the guests were still sitting at the table. Do you know?
That’s a really good question, Louise, and I’m not sure I know the answer for sure. It was certainly what was usually done, but how, without inconveniencing the diners? Well, by the time dinner got to that point, all the cutlery would have been used or removed. Ditto the plates and most of the glasses. And if it was a dinner with “removes”, all the serving platters would have been removed from the table centre at the end of each course/remove. If it was a dinner without removes (à la russe), there would be no serving platters on the table. So there probably wouldn’t have been much on the tablecloth at the crucial point. It would have been fairly easy for servants to reach across and remove any remaining glasses etc and then whisk off the tablecloth. I think. But if there were heavy ornaments etc in the middle of the table it would have been much more difficult, perhaps impossible to do. In Salter’s painting of the 1836 Waterloo Banquet the eating is over and they’ve reached the stage of toasts; it certainly looks as if the cloth is still there, but given the weight of the Portuguese silver centrepiece, that’s understandable. You can see the silver at Apsley House. It’s enormous.