All Through the Night by Connie Brockway

But it will have a freshness and spark that comes out of my feeling less of a need to follow a proscribed romance blueprint. Question: How does The Other Guy’s Bride compare to your previous titles? What can readers expect?Ĭonnie Brockway: I expect readers will find all the elements they’ve enjoyed in the past: engaging characters, irreverent humor, and sigh-provoking romance.

Question: Is there any character you most identify with? Why?Ĭonnie Brockway: Well, since I just finished cleaning up the house after the Easter extravaganza, I’d have to say the housemaid. And then there were the websites and the hyperlinks, and… I read about Thomas Cook’s ship tours and the advent of all-inclusive cruising, Mark Twain’s journals about his trip to Egypt, histories of ancient Egypt and the Sudan, books about the French Foreign Legion and the life of Sir Eldon Gorst and books about the birth of archeology and the establishment of Arabian horse bloodlines. Question: Since this is, as you mentioned, a departure from your Regency romances, what research did you do while writing the book to help you create the setting and your characters?Ĭonnie Brockway: Books. And finally, that sort of milieu provides the opportunity to write a love story outside the mainstream of Polite Society, where the rules are different, the stakes are higher, the romance more exquisite. Bonus points for being peopled with intriguing historical figures from all over the world. Not only is it historically and culturally rich, but a treasure trove of fun and fascinating minutiae (and I do love my minutiae). After spending the last five years doing Regency romances, I’ve been starving to write something set outside the British Isles, something that would be both familiar and exotic. Happily, they happen to be two of my favorites also, so the idea of revisiting the characters and settings has always been particularly appealing and always something I intended to do. What inspired you to write The Other Guy’s Bride?Ĭonnie Brockway: For years, readers have been asking me to write sequels to two of their favorite books, As You Desire and All Through the Night. Question: You’ve written over 20 different titles ranging from historical romance to contemporary women’s fiction.

All Through the Night by Connie Brockway