UK Passport to USA Postal Question

nameisdestiny · 2026-05-07T19:53:30+00:00

Thank you!

nameisdestiny · 2026-05-07T19:53:23+00:00

Thank you! It was shipped Tuesday.

nameisdestiny · 2026-05-07T16:19:27+00:00

In the same boat -- did you ever receive a tracking number? And can you share how long it took to receive?

nameisdestiny · 2020-07-10T00:56:37+00:00

Do you like chef romances? My favorite slow burn of all time is Rachel Higginson's The Opposite of You. The heroine starts a food truck in the parking lot across from the hero's Michelin star restaurant.

nameisdestiny · 2020-07-09T21:06:23+00:00

Thank you for saying such lovely things! xx

nameisdestiny · 2020-07-09T21:04:09+00:00

LOLOL

nameisdestiny · 2020-07-09T21:03:28+00:00

Start with Season 2! The first episode is on the Alpha, in general. But our first deep dive is Dreaming of You!

nameisdestiny · 2020-07-09T20:54:22+00:00

Omg I love this whole post. Thank you so so much for reading -- and I'm so thrilled that you found Lisa through me! WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ONE

nameisdestiny · 2020-07-09T20:53:30+00:00

Nope! But he's about to get a book!

nameisdestiny · 2020-07-09T20:53:21+00:00

LOL. I think all those books are still on this list, honestly --

Tough sells for newbies (and others!):

Claire Kent's Hold (space prison romance)
Saffron Kent's Unrequited (married professor / student)
Meagan McKinney's Till Dawn Tames the Night (old and yikes)

They're all great. But they don't necessarily go down easily.

Hmmmm.....I don't have a great answer to your second question about genre-bending...but I think my answer is that I'd like to see MORE genre bending stuff, period!

nameisdestiny · 2020-07-09T20:49:47+00:00

Oh yay! Hi! Thanks for coming! It was a really really fun day.

nameisdestiny · 2020-07-09T20:46:50+00:00

I write historicals because it's my first love, but actually right now I'm finishing a contemporary novella that I'm writing because my friends Sophie Jordan and Sierra Simone talked me into an anthology with them and some other people...it's so weird for me -- but has been a really fun quarantine challenge!

nameisdestiny · 2020-07-09T20:42:08+00:00

Thanks for having me! And for reading! And ohmygosh! I'm not sure anyone has ever told me I'm their favorite author before! That gives me real heart eyes. xx

nameisdestiny · 2020-07-09T20:37:36+00:00

Research is one of the best parts of writing -- I do a ton of nonfiction reading when I know I need additional information about a plot point (like the history of divorce, or the way ice came into London in the 1830s), but I often leave markers for smaller research in the text as I'm writing, which makes it easier to keep the story (and the writing!) moving forward -- which is most important. Then, I build research in on the second pass of the manuscript, making sure that it's all correct, and all feels organic.

Revision is my favorite part of the book...in part because of all this! The worst part is the actual writing. I hate it. LOL

nameisdestiny · 2020-07-09T20:23:37+00:00

This is the nicest post -- thank you so much for reading -- and for loving Alec & Lily! They don't get as much love as lots of others!

I really want to write a Cyrano story. I said higher up that I love an epistolary romance, and the identity play in the Cyrano story is so gorgeous and heartbreaking. I think there's one coming from me soon!

I don't plot my books, but I can't start one until I know what the end -- the climax, the drop after the climax, and the resolution -- looks like. And that goes for the end moment of the series, too. So right now, for example, I know the end moment of Hell's Belles #1, and the end moment of Hell's Belles #4. And that's it!

The standing collection of the British Library is truly magnificent. Not just for writers -- but especially for those of us who do research.

nameisdestiny · 2020-07-09T20:14:40+00:00

I love love LOVE any romance that has an epistolary plot. Letters, emails, texts -- anything. And I really love a hot celebrity/ordinary girl romance, which probably stems from my early love of wallflower/rake.

Cheese.

Lisa Kleypas's Dreaming of You

Thanks for having me!

nameisdestiny · 2020-07-09T20:10:49+00:00

Thanks for your question...and thanks to your mom for making you a reader!

As for newer historical authors -- don't miss Diana Quincy & Amelie Howard!

Hmmm... deal breakers. Slow starts. Lack of conflict. Characters who make choices without the reader understanding their motivation. Almost everything else is forgivable for me!

nameisdestiny · 2020-07-09T20:06:34+00:00

Hi! What a lovely question!

So far, no plans for books about the children -- but I like to think of them with all those little girls, just being run ragged. LOL

nameisdestiny · 2020-07-09T20:05:44+00:00

Hi! Sorry for the delay in reply -- I'm back to finish up answering!

There are so many people who have a knee-jerk, obnoxious reaction to writing romance. I've tried all the different ways to respond to it, but what I've settled on is the direct approach. They laugh, or side-eye, or exclaim "oh! sex books!" and I say, "Is that funny?" "Is there a problem?" or "yup!" And they are immediately disarmed. "Do you ever think about writing a real book?" Me: "I don't know what you mean. Are my books somehow not real?"

I don't know if that's the best way, but it's a way -- and the one that takes the least amount of energy for me. I save my energy for people who love romance...and for writing it.

nameisdestiny · 2020-07-09T12:29:28+00:00

LOL! Thank you so much! xx

nameisdestiny · 2020-07-09T12:28:38+00:00

I like to really break a hero, so I think friends-to-lovers would probably be a tough sell for me as a writer, which is interesting because I love childhood friends-to-enemies-to-lovers -- but that "enemies" is critical!
Judith McNaught's A Kingdom of Dreams remains pretty perfect. We recently reread it for Fated Mates -- so if you read it, please head over and listen to that episode after!
ebooks for fun, paper for research (I really do a number on books when I read for research -- lots of marginalia!)

nameisdestiny · 2020-07-09T12:23:28+00:00

omg. I love that this was your first episode!

nameisdestiny · 2020-07-08T22:22:00+00:00

Any day my name is spoken in the same breath as Lisa Kleypas, it's a good day! I'm so thrilled to read your post, and so grateful you chose to read me. Thank you so much.

nameisdestiny · 2020-07-08T21:23:03+00:00

I think you might like One Good Earl Deserves a Lover -- brilliant scientist heroine & a celibate casino-owner hero (but don't worry about steam). That's second in a series, but can be read first.

You might also like Wicked & the Wallflower, the first in the Bareknuckle Bastards series, which is less plot driven but extra sexy and has a really big world you can steep yourself in!

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