Notes on His Majesty’s Mistress

I wrote this in my pre-published days. Harlequin rejected it and so did some other publishers, so I shelved it and moved on. 

It has sat on my hard drive for so long that the characters referenced using a PDA—Personal Digital Assistant. That’s how we were referring to smartphones back then. 

When I was talking to a writer friend about resurrecting old manuscripts, I remembered this one. I dug it up,  reread it, and even though I can see why it wasn’t picked up by publishers, I still liked it. 

I gave it a light edit. My daughter said I should have left those PDA’s in there, but I turned them into phones. I tweaked a few things, but this is largely as I wrote it nearly twenty years ago. 

And, since I was preparing to open my bookshop, I thought this would be a fun snapshot for my superfans who might be interested in my earliest writing. I hope you enjoy it.

P.S. The original title was His Majesty’s Inappropriate Mistress–is there an appropriate one?–but the shorter title looked better on the cover.