site changes

My www.gardnermysteries.com site will be moving to a new host (same name) gradually, so it will not be updated for a while. I'll be posting any updates, excerpts, announcements, new book news, etc. here so that the file transfer to the new site will be easier.

One reason I like the Regency period is--no Internet! Of course, they had their share of quirks. In the Regency, books were purchased unbound; a gentleman would send his books to a bookbinder to be bound in hardback. If the books were in volumes (e.g., Richardson's Clarissa, published in the mid-1700s, was published in volumes, not the huge tome we buy from Penguin), then the gentleman could collect all the volumes and bind them together. So a wealthy man could have a library of beautifully bound books. A poor man who liked to read would have to try to keep his paper copies nice.

The cover of A Body in Berkeley Square is posted below. I think Berkley did a nice job.

Ashley Gardner

apologies

I set up this blog, then went and lost the password (BG). See my Jennifer Ashely blog (www.jennifersromances.blogspot.com) to also see what I'm up to.

A Covent Garden Mystery went to my editor last month, and I am awaiting her feedback (she's on vacation at the moment, lucky woman).

A Body in Berkley Square is proofread and back at the publisher and probably is heading to the printers. That will be out in December.

Please feel free to email me (ashleygardner@cox.net) or post here if you have any questions about the series, the characters, the Regency, or what have you.

Take care,

Ashley Gardner
www.gardnermysteries.com