Showing posts with label romance thriller. Show all posts
Showing posts with label romance thriller. Show all posts

Monday, January 6, 2020

TO LOVE A KING, My First Historical Re-Released

Happy 2020, readers & fellow authors!

TO LOVE A KING is my 20th published book, but the first historical I ever wrote, in 1991, with no internet. How did we do research in the old days? With library books, a trip to Henry VIII's haunts in England, and calling on Tudor experts.

My inspiration was Bertrice Small, in whose romance novel BLAZE WYNDHAM Henry VIII has 2 mistresses.

A Tudorphile since I'm a kid, I'd always wanted to write about him.

TO LOVE A KING has one heroine, the love of Henry's life (no, it's not Anne Boleyn). Its first publisher went out of business in 2005, and Next Chapter just re-published it with a new cover. It's now Book 2 of the Yorkist Saga--Book 1 is CROWNED BY LOVE. A sweet-voiced British narrator is working on the audio versions, and they're free for Kindle Unlimited. Enjoy!

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

SHARING HAMILTON Now Available for Pre-Order--October 30 Release Date






I'm delighted to announce that my historical romantic thriller, SHARING HAMILTON, co-written with best selling author Brian Porter, can now be pre-ordered. It centers on the nation's first sex scandal in 1791 between Alexander Hamilton and the beautiful Maria Reynolds, whose con artist husband James blackmailed Hamilton. This became tabloid fodder of the time, known as "The Reynolds Affair."
My British author friend Brian Porter writes murder mysteries set in England. I needed him to add his skills on writing about the darker side of life to produce the subplot about a Jack the Ripper-type murderer prowling the nighttime streets of America's first capital, Philadelphia. The challenge was to take my completed manuscript and seamlessly add the subplot as though the whole book was written in one continuous stream.
SHARING HAMILTON will be released on October 30.

Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Spectacular Review of my Romance Thriller THE END OF CAMELOT, Book 3 of The New York Saga

Romance author Lynda Coker reviews books on her blog "Between the Pages" and reviewed
Books 1 and 2 of the New York Saga, FROM HERE TO FOURTEENTH STREET and
BOOTLEG BROADWAY.

Book 3, THE END OF CAMELOT, got a "Totally Hooked--Can't Put it Down" 5-star review.


Title: Book Three - The End of Camelot
Author: Diana Rubino
Genre: Historical Romantic Suspense
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press

Review Rating: 
***** Totally Hooked - Can't Put It Down


Review Comments: 
In the prologue of this book, Vikki McGlory has just achieved her dream marriage and the fairy-tale life she'd always wanted. She called it Camelot. What an ingenious way to highlight the title of this book, making it jump back into a reader's mind. The End of Camelot... Instantly, without knowing anything about Vikki McGlory, the author had made me care deeply for her loss, one that if the title was true, she would experience in the future. Of course, I have to stay with her! Great beginning

Quote from Book:

She dropped the phone and slid down against the wall. Her glasses fell off her face. The room spun. Sunlight glared. 

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