📚 A Bookish Chat with 'On This Christmas, I Thee Wed' Virginia Barlow | Author Interview | #AuthorInterview #Christmas #HistoricalHolidayRomance

Today we welcome Virginia Barlow to The Writer's Life e-Magazine! Virginia is the author of the new historical holiday romance, On This Christmas, I Thee Wed. This interview is part of her Blog Tour by Pump Up Your Book. Enjoy!

Virginia Barlow has been a dreamer her whole life. She loves reading, traveling, and roses. She will dive headfirst into any romance she can get her hands on in any genre. Although her first love is Regency Romance and always will be. Something about the era calls to her soul like a siren’s song rising from the depths.

She loves to write steamy romances whether fantasy, historical, or contemporary, all are liberally spiced with adventure and sensual, seductive heroes. Her heroines are just as compelling with equal parts intelligence, sass, and backbone. They give as good as they get whether saving their man’s life or responding to his heated kisses, they’re all in.

The most important thing in Virginia’s life is her family, and spending time with them. When she is not bouncing a grandbaby in her arms or handing out popsicles, she is writing and dreaming up her next love story. Virginia has published fifteen romance novels with another two on the way and has half a dozen more circling around inside her head eager to make their debut.

Website & Social Media:

Website ➜ https://www.virginia-barlow.com/

X ➜ https://x.com/Virgini35142126

Facebook ➜ https://www.facebook.com/groups/3046288755596817

Goodreads ➜ https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19838312.Virginia_Barlow

Welcome to The Writer's Life! I love the premise behind your book, On This Christmas, I Thee Wed. How did you come up with the idea?

In a previous story, the groom left the bride at the altar, and I thought a Regency Romance where the bride left a very eligible groom at the altar would be a fun story to write.

Your book is published by The Wild Rose Press. Can you tell us a little about them in case there are other folks who would be interested in submitting to them?

The Wild Rose Press is a small publisher owned by Rhonda Penders and her partner RJ Morris. They started the press to help other authors realize their dreams.

You have such colorful characters! Can you tell us a little about your main characters?

Lady Lavinia Holbrook despises the way her father treats her mother and vows to never be in the same situation, in love with a man who cares nothing for you and woes other women to his bed while you watch from the sidelines. Lady Lavinia decides she will suffer the same fate unless she does something drastic. Like running away and leaving her arranged marriage at the altar.

The Duke of Chauncy believes love is a weakness. He has seen the devastation losing the love of one's life can take on the partner left behind and vows he will never give his heart to another. Until Lady Lavinia arrives and he cannot deny his attraction to her.Where is this book set and what time period?This book is set in the 1700's in northern England, a day's ride from Scotland.

What's one fun fact about your book that people might not know about?

One fact about my book that people may not know about is the practice of "wife selling" which began in England at the end of the 17th century. If a man became displeased with his wife he could put a collar around her neck and auction her off to the highest bidder.

If you could spend one day with one of your characters, who would that be and what would you all do?

If I could spend a day with a character out of my book it would definitely be the Duchess of Chauncy. I would like to sit in her salon and discuss her younger days. There is a story worth telling.

Happy reading!

Bartered to Viscount Hudson Becker by her father, Lady Lavinia Holbrook escapes her arranged marriage and travels to her Godmother, the Duchess of Chauncy to seek asylum. Determined to put men and marriage behind her, she is unprepared for the duke’s interest or his heated kisses.

The Duke of Chauncy believes love is a weakness and refuses to take a bride despite his mother's scheming. When the duchess makes a wager he will marry by Christmas, he considers the matter a lark. Until Lavinia gets under his skin, and he rethinks his position on love and happy ever afters.

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