News & Musings from Susanne Dunlap Dear Reader, For some time now, you've been accustomed to hearing about my Regency romance series, Double-Dilemma Romance. In fact, book 4 in the series—The Falconer's Lost Baron—will be out on December 1! But—call me crazy—something about the season, about the coming winter and the glorious changing leaves of autumn, made me look back to my Medieval trilogy, The Orphans of Tolosa. I decided to give it new life, for a number of reasons. Reason #1: These were...

News & Musings from Susanne Dunlap Dear Reader, Before you hop over to whichever side of the generative AI fence you tend to feel comfortable on, I'd like to share with you how I manage to be on both sides of that hot-button issue. And I'm frankly not in the least uncomfortable about it. First, four of my books were pirated and used to train Claude.ai. If Anthropic had actually purchased the books, I might just have gone, "Eh. So what." That's because the nature of LLM (large language model)...

News & Musings from Susanne Dunlap Dear Reader, Sigh. Another week passes. A sobering reminder that time is a non-renewable commodity. I constantly marvel at what a privilege it is that people will actually take the time to read my books. Reading a 100k-word novel takes a chunk out of someone's life, so I thank all of you who have granted me that time! Enough Wednesday philosophy—it's time to spill some tea. I hope you're not expecting Lady Whistledown here (rewatching Bridgerton). I'm not a...