I’m thrilled to welcome the fabulous Anna Campbell to Rakes and Rascals today to delight readers with 5 Fun Facts about her new release WHAT A DUKE DARES, the third book in the Sons of Sin series.
Hi Carol! Thanks so much for having me as your guest today on Rakes and Rascals to talk about my new release WHAT A DUKE DARES which is out in Australia and North America today and in the U.K. in late October.
I loved writing this story – Cam and Pen are characters who lived with me for a long time so I was extremely happy to give them their happy ending. And there’s something fun about writing a duke, given his role as the historical king of the beasts!
So I thought today, I’d give you five fun facts about my latest release.
Fun Fact 1
This is book three in my Sons of Sin series (the other two are SEVEN NIGHTS IN A ROGUE’S BED and A RAKE’S MIDNIGHT KISS). My duke in the title is Camden Rothermere, the Duke of Sedgemoor. If you’ve read the other books, you know that Cam is Mr. Cool, the guy who always knows exactly what to do, the man who observes his friends love affairs with a slightly sardonic amusement. For me as both reader and writer, it’s so enjoyable to pull the rug out from under the man who thinks he’s got life sorted out and send him on a wild trip to chaos when he falls in love. For this particular author, seeing Cam battle with the unexpected power of his emotions was great fun.
Fun Fact 2
If any of you are regulars on my Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/AnnaCampbellFans?ref=br_rs), you’ll notice people referring to my very dignified – well, at least he is at the start – duke as the DUDE! This stems from a horrible typo I discovered on one of my rounds of edits and which I shared because it cracked me up. Lord Hillbrook’s very haughty butler announces Cam as the Dude of Sedgemoor. I’m sure there’s a sequel on the way where Cam hangs 10 and says cowabunga every time he opens his mouth!
Fun Fact 3
Penelope Thorne, the heroine and Cam’s childhood bugbear, has spent the last nine years wandering around Europe in the company of an independent-minded aunt. Intrepid female travelers weren’t unknown in the Georgian era and the Regency so Pen’s scandalous adventures are based in fact. Women like Mary Wollstonecraft and Lady Mary Wortley Montague ranged far and wide, often through war zones. Mary Wollstonecraft, the mother of feminism, got as far as Sweden after living through the worst of the French Revolution, and Lady Mary Wortley Montague spent years in Turkey and wrote some terrifically entertaining reminiscences of her travels. A really enjoyable book about these brave, interesting women is LADIES OF THE GRAND TOUR by Brian Dolan.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Fun Fact 4
I’ve always loved the poem TARANTELLA by Hilaire Belloc (you can find it in full here: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/tarantella/). WHAT A DUKE DARES starts out as a road trip romance (most of it is set in London high society but it begins with a trip over the Italian Alps).
When I was writing the flea-bitten hostelries where our hero and heroine are forced to find shelter, I kept remembering these lines.
Do you remember an Inn,
Miranda?
Do you remember an Inn?
Of the straw for the bedding,
And fleas that tease in the High Pyrenees,
And the wine that tasted of tar?
As you can imagine, Cam is used to much better accommodations! The ratty inns gave me plenty of opportunities to write snappy dialogue between my hero and heroine. Always a fun bonus!
Fun Fact 5
Sometimes it’s not what you know, it’s WHO you know! There’s a very eventful boat trip that results in scandal and a marriage of convenience. The problem is I’m not a sailor. Luckily, I have a very good friend, Australian author Helene Young (www.heleneyoung.com) who lives on a yacht. I set Helene the task of plotting the journey from Genoa to England and she came up trumps!
So let’s talk boat trips. Are you a sailor? Have you been on a long ocean voyage? If not, would you like to go on one? If so, where? I’ve got a signed print copy of WHAT A DUKE DARES for one commentor (open internationally) today so good luck!
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About WHAT A DUKE DARES
(Sons of Sin #3)
Genre: Historical Romance (Regency)
Cover Blurb
A REPUTATION AT RISK
What woman in her right mind would say no to marrying the dashing Duke of Sedgemoor? Miss Penelope Thorne, that’s who. She’s known Camden Rothermere since they were children-and she also knows she’d bring nothing but scandal to his name.
Cam can hardly believe Penelope turned down his proposal. But if she wants to run off to the Continent and set the rumor mill ablaze, he can’t stop her. Then her brother’s dying request sends him to bring home the one woman he thought he’d finally gotten over.
The only way they’ll both get back to London without their reputations in tatters is to pretend they’re married during the journey. That means kissing like they mean it and even sharing a bed-until it becomes hard to tell where the game ends and true desire begins . . .
Buy Links:
Barnes and Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/what-a-duke-dares-anna-campbell/1117543455?ean=9781455557905
The Book Depository: http://www.bookdepository.com/What-Duke-Dares-Anna-Campbell/9781455557905
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Meet ANNA CAMPBELL
ANNA CAMPBELL has written nine multi award-winning historical romances for Grand Central Publishing and Avon HarperCollins and her work is published in sixteen languages. Anna has won numerous awards for her Regency-set stories including Romantic Times Reviewers Choice, the Booksellers Best, the Golden Quill (three times), the Heart of Excellence (twice), the Aspen Gold (twice) and the Australian Romance Readers Association’s favorite historical romance (five times). Anna is currently engaged in writing the “Sons of Sin” series, which started in 2012 with SEVEN NIGHTS IN A ROGUE’S BED and now continues with book 3, WHAT A DUKE DARES. Anna lives on the beautiful east coast of Australia where she writes full-time.
You can find Anna online at:
Website: www.annacampbell.info
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AnnaCampbellFans?ref=br_rs
Twitter: @AnnaCampbellOz
GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/296477.Anna_Campbell
Anna, thank you so much for taking the time out to be my guest on Rakes and Rascals and brightening our day with your fun facts about WHAT A DUKE DARES.
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THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED
DON’T FORGET TO ANSWER ANNA’S QUESTION FOR THE CHANCE TO WIN A SIGNED COPY OF WHAT A DUKE DARES.
THE GIVEAWAY WILL RUN FROM 26th AUGUST UNTIL MIDNIGHT (GMT) ON 2nd SEPTEMBER AND THE WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON THE 3rd SEPTEMBER.
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I love hilarious typos, I think the Dude of Sedgemoor is a great name! As far as boat trips go I’m a terrible person to take out to sea, I get sick at the slightest bump of a wave. Had a very mixed experience going out to the Great Barrier Reef where I was sick the whole way there but had such a great time once I got there and was able to get my ‘sea legs’!
Thank you for stopping by and commenting, Stefanie. Good luck in the draw!
Oh, dear, Stef! Yuck to being sea sick. I actually have a dodgy stomach, but I’m OK with motion sickness. Never quite worked that out. Yeah, I think Cam is the Dude of Sedgemoor for evermore!
I came to Australia on a boat as a little girl and haven’t managed to cruise anywhere else since but I have a bucket-list item to do Venice via boat
Vicki, thank you for stopping by and commenting. The only journeys I have made by boat have been across the English Channel to mainland Europe.
Vicki-Lee, Australia by boat? What fun! One of my uni friends had wonderful photos of emigrating – riding on a camel in Suez and elephant in Ceylon, as it was then, for example. I’d love to do Venice via boat. Apparently sailing into it is the best way to arrive! Hope you make it one day.
Oops, sorry, Vicki! I’m not awake yet. Sorry for mixing up your name!
I’ve never been on a boat in the ocean, only on the lake a few times. I would love to be able to and take my children. The cover of the book is absolutely sexy! I would pick up the book based on the cover. I do that often and I have rarely been displeased with the book.
Thank you for stopping by and commenting, Ann. 🙂
Ann, covers can really lure you in, can’t they? I remember I bought my first Laura Kinsale because of the cover and then she turned into one of my favorites. I love that cover too – the red really pops.
No need to enter me in the giveaway, I’ve already read this absolutely delightful novel. But to answer the question anyway, I have an unexplained fear of ships, totally unfounded. I will venture out in a rowboat on a nice calm lake or pond but that is as far as I will go. I have crossed the English channel three times having anxiety attacks twice and giving into tranquilizers on the third trip.
Dot, I have been across the Channel several times and, luckily, I don’t have any problems. It must be miserable when you do. It must have been bad to have to take the tranquilizers.
La Deetda, thank you so much for saying you enjoyed Duke! That’s music to my ears. You poor thing with that anxiety. I have anxiety about heights so I understand in a small way. Clearly you need to stay on dry land! 🙂
Wow, just saw your lovely review of Duke on Amazon, Dot. Thank you so much! Definitely a lovely way to start the day down here in Australia!
Eeeeepppp!!!! I am so excited for this book.
I have never been on a long boat voyage. I would like to take a cruise one day but not sure how I would do on the big boat. I don’t like little boats on lakes or rivers but I”m told on a big boat you can’t feel anything.
Lindsey, I’m sure you will love What a Duke Dares. I’m posting my review tomorrow.
I’ve never been on a cruise ship but I have been on the cross channel ferries to mainland Europe several times. They are much smaller that cruise ships and I never really had any problem with the crossings. You shouldn’t have any problem on a large cruise ship.
Actually, RRG, I hate to spoil things but I did a cruise to New Zealand and you could definitely feel when we were in rough water. I remember one night there were only about three people in the dining room! And even I, who don’t get seasick, found the horizon going up and down a bit hard to take with my steak dinner! Thanks for saying you’re excited about this book.
I have never been on a boat in the ocean. would not like to go on one.I am looking forward to reading WHAT A DUKE DARES.
Thank you for stopping by and commenting, Tina. 🙂
Thanks so much for saying you’re looking forward to Duke, Tina. I have a suspicion that what happens at sea with Cam and Pen won’t encourage you to change your mind about ocean travel, hee hee.
I love being on the water and have taken a cruise. One night the weather was bad and waves were high. It was so funny to watch the people on the dance floor. The boat would list left and all the dancers would go with it, then it would list right and there went to the right. Of course, there were a lot of people sick in their rooms, but for those of us who nothing bothers, it was crazy fun.
Sandra, that must have been quite an experience. I just have a mental picture of everyone dancing listing to one side and then the other.
Sandra, the only long cruise I’ve done was back in 2010 when I was a guest speaker on a cruise to New Zealand (now, THAT was a perk!). The Tasman Sea between Australia and NZ gets really rough with the winds that whip around the Southern Ocean so there were a couple of crazy days. I thought they were fun but the corridors were pretty empty because so many people were sick in their cabins and the doctor’s office was crowded to the gunwales.
dinner cruises in a harbor or a canal, a boat ride in a bay, and a ride to an island in a river are the extent of motored boat rides for me.
Thank you for stopping by and commenting, dholcomb1.
Denise, I love boat rides. There’s something about being on the water, a feeling that your’e away from the problems of real life, somehow.
I’m afraid I’d get sea sick, so I won’t even attempt a cruise. I’ve been on leisure boats, however, and it’s fun.
Thank you for stopping by and commenting, Kim.
Kim, I love leisure boats too. One of the lovely ways to discover a new city is to do a boat cruise. It’s at such a nice relaxed pace and seeing the place from the water gives such a nice new perspective.
I’ve done a short trip before ~ 2days & I was bored. I didn’t bring enough books with me to read! The rooms were really small too. Somewhat claustrophobic.
Linda, I think it’s a wonderful chance to kick back and do lots of reading – next time, you need to take a library full! One day I’d love to do one of those European river cruises. The boats are much smaller and I think they all have views from the windows as you slip past those beautiful historic towns.
Can’t wait to read about the Dude! I went on a schooner off the coast of Maine for my honeymoon…. never got seasick but did miss private bathrooms! Loved raising the sails, though!
Thank you for dropping by and commenting, Mary. 🙂
Mary, that schooner honeymoon sounds lovely – bathroom aside! What a fabulous memory! Thanks for saying you’re looking forward to the dude!
Oh, Anna, you would ask a question that I’m embarrassed to answer! I’m a lousy sailor. My brother used to own a sailboat and we got to sail with him when invited, under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. I got seasick and had to lie down the entire sailing excursion. Then, once upon a time my hubby and I took a very large ferry (more like a slow-moving barge) from Los Angeles to Catalina Island and…yep, you guessed it! I got seasick and had to hang my head over the railing as there were no places to lie down. I’ve been told since then that lying down won’t help seasickness anyway. I turn positively green. I never, as a child, could get on a fair or carnival ride that spun around without getting sick. So I don’t have the disposition for movement, no matter how gentle. Bleh. I wish I were a sailor! Hubby and I always wanted to go on a cruise, but alas, even the dramamine tablets don’t help so we’ve not been on a cruise and won’t…ever. Boo hoo. Thanks for the sickening question. 🙂 jdh2690@gmail.com
Ha ha, Janice. You could say my blog made you sick! So sorry to hear you’re such a rotten sailor. But clearly there’s no point trying to fight mother nature. Definitely stay away from cruise ships! 🙂
I’m not a sailor nor had been in an ocean voyage. If I did, the Pacific Ocean would be the ocean voyage I would go. Especially if said voyage stops at Hawaii.
Ooh, Erahime, I’ve got to say Hawaii is somewhere I want to go and getting there by ship sounds like a fantastic idea! Perhaps you can swing down and see Australia in the same trip.
That would be a great stop! And I would also liked to cruise through a European river cruise. That would be a wonderful time, too.
i enjoy being on the water (as long as I don’t have row or anything) & luckily haven’t had any issues even in rougher water. went on a 4day cruise years ago & loved it, wouldn’t mind doing again
Thank you for stopping by and commenting, gamistress66.
Gamistress, I’d love to do another cruise. There are some in Europe that look absolutely wonderful. The one down the Rhine, for example. Or something in the Mediterranean!
My sister has done a number of cruise trips including Baltic & Mediterranean cruises and is getting ready to go on a long river cruise through part of Europe. I admit I’m a little jealous 😉
No, not a sailor and I’ve never been on a cruise ship. My husband want to take a cruise, so I up for trying it. I’d like to go anywhere in the Caribbean.
Thank you for stopping by and commenting, Lesia.
Lesia, the Caribbean looks just beautiful, doesn’t it? I’ve recently got hooked on a BBC series called Death in Paradise – sure it’s on in America too somewhere. The most gorgeous scenery!
I was in England back in the 70’s & took that boat ride over to Ireland (I was a college student at the time). I was so sick that I never wanted to do that again. I also got sick on a catamaran on my honeymoon in Hawaii. Needless to say, sea travel & I don’t get along too well!
So you won’t be going on a cruise any time soon, Sharlene!
Oh, no, Sharlene! Especially with being sick on your honeymoon. That’s just against the rules! I think maybe you should stay on dry land! 🙂
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Thanks for sharing, Ki! Glad you enjoyed the post!
Thank you for sharing these fun facts Anna. 🙂
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Thanks, MysticalManuscripts! Glad youl ike the sound of my duke!
I have never been on a boat in my entire life. I would be fun to experience sailing or even going on a cruise,but living in the deserts of Nevada it will be difficult task to go sailing, and where as I work part-time it will impossible to go on a cruise. But I do hope sometime in the future I will have the opportunity to experience them.
I am glad I visited here today… I just added 3 books (the Sons of Sin Series) to my TBR List. I am especially looking forward to reading “What A Duke Dares”, it had be hooked after reading the synopsis!!
Oh, that’s music to my ears, MysticalManuscripts! All three? Thank you! My mother grew up inland in Australia and didn’t see the sea until she was 21. She actually never got to like it much – which was a pity because the rest of the family was beach mad!
I’ve been on a nots to the journey to china. It is quite an experience! Love it , especially because I can see sea gulls very early in the morning
Thank you for stopping by and commenting, Aretha.
I went on a week long cruise with a friend one time and we had a blast. We went to Nassau, Bahamas and San Juan, Puerto Rico and St.Thomas, Virgin Islands.
Thank you for stopping by and commenting, Lori.