eBay Regency Book Sales are Back!

I sold three boxes of books last week and have three more on eBay this week.  It's nice because I can finally get back into my closest where my overflow was piling up.

22 Books: 25 Regency Historical Romances Layton & more! Is over on February 5th and has four Edith Layton books.  I usually like her but only kept a few of my favorites.  

40 Traditional Regency Romances Including Hazard & Buck is also over on February 5th and these were harder to part with because I love the old school Regency Romances.  I've read all of them at least twice but didn't make the keep pile for one reason or another.

Here are two reviews (don't read if you don't like spoilers) of books from one of my sales.  They are from An Evening at Almack's a lovely Traditional Regency review blog.

The Merry Chase~ Judith Nelson

Play of Hearts~ Corinna Cunliffe

Once I've cleared out all my books I'm going to read through my favorites pile one more time and cut again.  Got to make room for more don't I?

20 Regency Romances: eBay Listing

Okay so out of about 200 I've boxed up around 100 Regency's.  Aren't you proud!?  I thought of doing the Paperback Swap, but that means I'd be getting more books in and I'm trying to weed them out.

I listed these books, they're in good to acceptable quality because many are as old or older than me!
Check out my sale here or look at the list below.

Do you have any of these too?

Gayle Buck	Lord John's Lady	1988
Julie Caille	Change of Heart	1990
Marion Chesney	The Banishment	1995	Black X on cover
Marilyn Clay	Felicity's Folly	1997
Corinna Cunliffe	Play of Hearts	1986
Megan Daniel	The Reluctant Suitor	1981
Marian Devon	Defiant Mistress	1983
Zabrina Faire	The Romany Rebel	1979
Ellen Fitzgerald	The Heirs of Bellair	1986
Elsie Gage	Your Obedient Servant	1985
Barbara Hazard	The Royal Snuff Box	1987
	A Surfeit of Suitors	1983
Valerie King	Vanquished	1995
Judith Lansdowne	Just Perfect	2003
Nancy Lawrence	Delightful Deception	1990
Alice Chetwynd Ley	A Conformable Wife	1981
Alicia Meadowes	Sweet Bravado	1979
Freda Michel	The Price of Vengeance	1976
Judith Nelson	The Merry Chase	1985
Clarice Peters	London Tangle	1995	Tear in cover

There were some good ones in this batch.
And Barbara Hazard is always a great read.

15 Zebra Regency Romances: My first eBay Listing

I hope I don't sound spammy for gushing about this everywhere but I am so excited to be selling instead of Regency's on eBay for a change.  Here's the listing.

Originally, I planned to review the 200ish books in my collection, none of which have shown up here.  But I've written about 25 so that is a good okay really bad percentage. Maybe it is time for me to make a list to keep track of all my regency's because I'm watching one auction right now but out of 50 books I have 20!  Scary, huh?

Have you read any of these?  Is one a favorite story or author?

15 I've read...

Jo Ann Ferguson	His Lady Midnight
Maria Greene	Captain Hawkins' Dilemma
Karla Hocker	The Impertinent Miss Bancroft
Kate Huntington	Town Bronze
	The Merchant Prince
Martha Kirkland	That Scandalous Heiress
Nancy Lawrence	Miss Hamilton's Hero
Laura Paquet	Miss Scott Meets Her Match
Julia Parks	Fortune's Fools
Cynthia Pratt	The Black Mask
Joy Reed	Lord Caldwell and The Cat
Jeanne Savery	A Handful of Promises
	An Independent Lady
	Smuggler's Heart
Hayley Ann Solomon	My Lady Luck

This one from Kate Huntington was a bit unique

The main character had a crush on a priest! But it isn't what it seems.

Barnes and Noble Where are the Writing Books?

I stood in front of the two cases devoted to writing and punctuation at my local Barnes and Noble befuddled and torn.

Let’s digest that for a moment, two cases on how to write in a book store?  There was more space allocated to calendars, gifts, and even toys.  I think my first job as a library page spoiled me and led me to have higher expectations from book stores, especially the huge monster ones. 

Even so, Barnes and Noble did have one case on guides, personal experiences and specialized per genre.   The other case was mainly filled by dictionaries in a assortment of sizes.  There were so many titles that I walked out empty handed not sure which I should get first.  I did take a few pictures to remind myself of a few that peeked my interest. 

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Page after Page by Heather Sellers

The Oxford: Essential Guide to Writing by Thomas S. Kane

The Little Red Writing Book by Brandon Royal

Have you ever read any of the above?  Would you recommend it to your easily confused mother or dog?  Or is there a book you feel that every storyteller should have?

I hope I don’t sound whiny, because I had a grand time browsing the shop and reading the end of more than one book.  I was especially excited to see stories like Amelia Bedila in the bargain books.  I love my bargains!

Resourceful Writing Books That I Own

My bookshelf sways and groans under the weight of a vast assortment of books.  Now that NaNoWriMo is less than a month away it is time for me to dust off my writing shelf.  I’m always looking for new books, most of which end up on my Amazon Wish list for a ridiculous amount of time.  Here are a few that I own.

Eat, Shoots, & Leaves:  The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
by Lynne Truss

I bought this just last week when I stumbled upon Derby Street Books in Salem, Ma.  Hopefully it will help my sentence structure.

The Everything Creative Writing Book
by Carol Whiteley

Picked this one up on vacation at my favorite used book store.  I read about screenwriting on the plane trip home but don’t think that is what I’ll be referring to right now.

Guide to Fiction Writing
by Phyliss Whitney

Prolific author’s approach to novel writing.

Dictionaries

Some old, some new.  I still have my first dictionary that my best friend growing up gave me.  I probably still need to look up words in it too.

Thesaurus

My brain jumps to certain words repeatedly and a thesaurus helps me to change it up.

What books do you have on hand?  Is there a particular book that you go back to time and again?  I have a feeling I’m going to need another bookcase.