julia quinn to catch an heiress audiobook

The thought of Percy Prewitt as my contubernal causes me to break out in hives. One who occupies the same tent a tent-fellow, comrade. Lily sounded too much like Ellie (the heroine of Brighter Than The Sun, which I'd just finished writing), and while this probably would not have confused any of my readers, it confused the heck out of me!Ĭontubernal, noun. After about two hours it became apparent that wouldn't work. First I named her Nathalie, but that didn't seem to fit. Caroline's name changed twice during the first few weeks of writing.(Except that Caroline wasn't yet named Caroline. The sentence: 'Caroline Trent hadn't meant to shoot Percival Prewitt, but she had, and now he was dead,' popped into my head, and I knew I had to figure out a book to go with it. To Catch an Heiress is the only one of my books that was conceived out of an opening line.Three cheers for Oxford University Press, who graciously waived their permission fees, obviously deciding that romance novels = excellent public relations!

So I ended up hunched over the Oxford English Dictionary (the kind you need a magnifying glass to read) for hours, looking up new definitions. The problem was, we discovered this after I'd written the book.

This meant that all the definitions would have to come from the same dictionary, so that I could make only one application for permission. It turns out that dictionary definitions are not public domain, which meant I would have to apply for permission to use them in my book. I had a lot of fun with the 'definitions' that appear at the beginning of each chapter, but they turned out to be a LOT of work.If you read carefully, you will find a theme throughout the book about stars and starry nights. The working title of this book was Starry Night.

Julia quinn to catch an heiress audiobook