Award winning author Lucinda Brant fell in love with the 18th century as an 11 year old who picked up a dusty historical tome and started reading about a world she felt she’d once lived in.br /

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Hello there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler and in todays Binge Reading episode Lucinda talks about her career as a best selling author of Georgian romance,  and the international following who adore the aristocratic families she writes about almost as much as she does.br /

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You can download the first book in the Roxton series, Midnight Marriage, for free on her website,  but we’ve got three audiobook copies to give away to three lucky readers.  Enter the draw on the website at The Joys of Binge Reading.com or on our Binge Reading Facebook page.br /

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Links to the free Midnight Marriage e-Book and everything else we’ve talked about in the shownotes for this episode on the website too. While you’re there, subscribe so you won’t be short of a great book you can’t put down.  And leave us a comment.  We love to hear from you.br /

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Six things you’ll learn from this Joys of Binge Reading episode:br /

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Lucinda's early - and mysterious - 18th century passionHow truth sometimes is stranger than fictionThe remarkable real life story that launched the RoxtonsLady Diana - The villain everyone delights inOn commissioning amazing coversWhy she loves Mary Baloghbr /

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Where to find Lucinda Brant: br /

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Website: https://www.lucindabrant.com/br /

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LucindaBrantBooks/br /

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Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/lucindabrant/br /

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YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/LucindaBrantauthorbr /

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What follows is a near as transcript of our conversation, not word for word but pretty close to it, with links to important mentions.br /

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Jenny Wheeler: Hello there, Lucinda and welcome to the show. It's great to have you with us.br /

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Romance writer Lucinda Brantbr /

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Lucinda Brant: Thanks, Jenny. It's very nice of you to invite me on your show. I think this is probably only the second podcast I've ever done.br /

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Jenny Wheeler: That's wonderful. Thank you. There will probably be many more in the future. Was there a Once Upon a Time moment when you decided that you had to write fiction as distinct from any other writing you might have been doing, and if so, was there a catalyst for it?br /

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Lucinda Brant Romance authorbr /

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Lucinda Brant:  I don't know if there was a Once Upon a Time moment. I've always liked creative writing. I've enjoyed it since school. Probably around seven or eight, I remember thinking, I really enjoy writing stories. Then it would have been high school when I started writing for myself. I thought I'd try my hand at fiction.br /

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We had a creative writing class in English but it wasn't enough for me, so I started writing stories and I would take them into class because I didn't like Maths very much and I'd pass them around. I realized I had an audience because they'd say, when are we getting the next chapter?br /

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Creative writing? Or Maths?br /

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Jenny Wheeler: You passed them around in Maths?br /

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Lucinda Brant: I did. I didn't do much Maths. br /

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Jenny Wheeler: You’re another one like me, I used to read something under the desk while the teacher was talking. I was bored with what they were saying but I couldn't leave a book alone.br /

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Lucinda Brant: That sounds about right. That's how I got into writing fiction and then I put it down when I went to university be...