Command Performance - Now on Amazon!
Welcome to Quiller’s Place – The View From The Shed. This is the homepage of romance writer and columnist Sally Quilford.
Why ‘View From The Shed?’ Well most people who know me know that for the past eighteen months I have been working (when the weather is good) from a tiny summerhouse in my garden, and it’s there I do my best work. I love it in there, which means I hate winter when it’s too cold to go out. I’ve tried heaters and they really don’t work when the westies keep scratching on the door to go in and out. They love it in there too!
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Tears and Laughter and Happy Ever After - A collection of 26 beautiful stories
Actually, with a name like Command Performance I was expecting something like a painted Regency scene, orchestras and flowing frocks et al. But well done at coming up with a surprise. That’s the best way.
It is a contemporary story, Maria. They’re supposed to be in the Venice Archepelago, but there’s no sign of that in the background!
I always imagined you as a historical romance novelist in your ultimate avatar. You know – another Georgette Heyer! Quilford is such a solid, English name, you see.
A lot of what I write is historical (mainly 20s and 30s) but I do some contemporary. I think I prefer writing historical for My Weekly because it’s easier to get the morals right. With contemporary it seems to me there’s no good reason why two people who fancy each other wouldn’t go to bed together.
True. Actually, the first time I visited your blog was on a blog takeover day when you were writing in a Shakespearean voice. The image of ‘Mystresse Quilforde’ seems to have stuck for some reason. I loved your Shakespearean joke about Anne Hathaway’s sixteen summers being accurate if summer came every two years and I even mentioned it in a blog post on Shakespeare the other day (thanks for that!). Ever thought of tackling a historical set in Shakespeare’s time?
Actually one of the first novels (if not the first novel) I wrote for NaNoWriMo was an Elizabethan murder mystery. It was rubbish, but the germ of the idea is still there and I’ve recently thought of resurrecting it as a romance with the murder as a sub-plot.
Oh, it’s a great idea. Go for it. Historical romantic suspense!