So she does her best to make sure that Juliet gets very little notice from the ton. And when Juliet suffers a disfiguring accident in her teens, Rose thinks not of how awful it must be for Juliet, instead she thinks of how having a daughter who is less than perfect will reflect upon her. Juliet Shelby is the daughter of Rose, Viscountess Shelby, who is, unfortunately, the vainest of the Featherstone sisters. The heroine of How to Romance a Rake, a tremendously appealing character, is not your conventional Regency miss.

I came up with the Fabulous Featherstone sisters and out of that grew their daughters, the Ugly Ducklings. I did a “what if” and wondered what it would be like to be the daughter of such a famed beauty–especially a daughter who suffers by comparison. They were real life Regency characters who came from no-one knows where and took the ton by storm with their beauty and married very, very well. The concept of three cousins who are considered ugly compared to their glamorous mothers grew out of a story I read somewhere about the famous Gunning Sisters. Can you tell us a little bit about it and what inspired the premise? Your series is called The Ugly Ducklings. Let’s have a chat with Manda, and see what she’s up to with her latest book, How To Romance A Rake. Her first book, How to Dance With a Duke, debuted to great reviews and spent several weeks on the Bookscan bestseller list.

Mandy writes witty and charming Regency-set historical romance with a dash of mystery. One for the Rogue, St.I’m thrilled to have my good friend and talented historical romance author Manda Collins on the blog today.Once Upon a Christmas Kiss (novella), St.

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The second book in Collins' Studies in Scandal series, Duke with Benefits, was named a Kirkus Best Romance of 2017. Her novella The Perks of Being a Beauty was the winner of the 2014 Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence for Best Novella. Ĭollins' first book, How to Dance with a Duke, was nominated for an RT Book Reviews Reviewers' Choice Award for First Historical Romance. Her Wicked Widows series are Regency romance novels with an element of mystery, about women with unhappy first marriages who fall in love with better men after their first husbands have died. Most of her books are regency romances, but she has also written a contemporary romance novels novella, Legally Yours. Manda Collins is an author of romance novels.

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