Guest hosting all this week at Regency Kisses: Lady Catherine's Salon on FB. Hope you can join me!

A day late, but worth the wait! Happy release day +1 to my critique partner for CRAZY FOR THE COUNTESS!
#mustreadromance #historicalromance #newrelease #crazyforthecountess

Thanks to @jaycalderin for a wonderful summer semester at @sfdbos. And thanks for letting me focus on 1820s fashions!

Another lovely review for NOT QUITE A COUNTESS!

#fivestarreview
#blissbennet
#notquiteacountess

Felicitations to @lianainbloom for the third book in her acclaimed Luna Sisters series, GABRIELA AND HIS GRACE!

Happy Release Day to @joannashupe for THE GILDED HEIRESS! Congratulations, Joanna!

Looking forward to the fabulous speakers at this weekend's Regency Fiction Writers Annual Virtual Conference!

Happy book birthday to Jess Russell for the re-release of her award-winning historical romance, MAD FOR THE MARQUESS!

Author Interview: ‘Not Quite a Countess’ by Bliss Bennet About the Book: A Georgian-set prequel to the award-winning Audacious Ladies of Audley seriesFive squabbling guardians. Three rivals for an earldom. And one dashing cavalryman threatening to overse…

Want to know more about how and why I write? Check out this interview on the READING NOOK blog!
readingnook84.wordpress.com/2025/08/17/a...

We'll have to chat sometime! You obviously know far more about current jazz artists than me...

sketches by Bliss Bennet of 1820s costumes

Second batch of sketches for my final project for FASHION SKETCHING 1 at #sfdboston! Evening wear during the 1820s (although the wedding dress is a bit of a cheat; most people got married during the daytime...)

Looking forward to historical chat, games, and prizes this Thursday when I'll be a guest on the Brazen Belles Facebook group! 8/24, 6-8pm eastern.
www.facebook.com/groups/braze...

Hope to see you there!

And the five-star reviews keep rolling in...

#notquiteacountess
#regencyromance
#blissbennet
#fivestarreview

Can't wait to see innovative jazz pianist Hiromi Uehara and her group Sonic Wonder—the highlight of this weekend's Newport Jazz Festival!

Who's your favorite jazz artist?

#newportjazzfest
#amlistening
#jazzrules

What better way to spend a summer Saturday than hanging out with my best friend from high school and my best friend from college and listening to jazz by the ocean?

#newportjazzfest
#bestfriends

Another lovely 5-star review of NOT QUITE A COUNTESS!

#regencyromance
#blissbennet
#notquiteacountess
#audaciousladiesofaudley
#5starreview

Starting the sketches for my final project for FASHION SKETCHING 1 at @sfdboston!

A belated happy book birthday to @kc_bateman for ROAD TRIP WITH A ROGUE, the latest addition to HER MAJESTY'S REBELS series!

Happy to share my birthday with poets John Ashbery and Gerard Manley Hopkins; children's book authors John M. Muth, Natalie Babbitt, and Beatrix Potter; world champion figure skater Isabelle Brasseur and World Series champion pitcher Vida Blue ; and, of course, the inestimable Jacqueline O...

Happy Birthday to my own dearest Miss Bennet!

Is this a new thing, or am I just behind the times? I had no idea they made gas fire pits...
#thewestonvt
#travel

Sparrows and pigeons and.... turkeys???
What's the most unusual urban wildlife you've spotted this year?

#wildturkeys
#urbanwildlife

I'm in danger of adding alcohol markers to the list of things (books, fabric, ribbons, perennial plants) I love to collect...

#amdrawing
#sfdboston
#fashiondesign

Some days it's hard to start writing...

#amwriting
#writingquotations
#janeausten

Happy Release Day to @jesseverlee, for TO SKETCH A SCANDAL, Book #4 in the LUCKY LOVERS OF LONDON series!

#victorianromance
#forbiddenloveromance
#jesseverlee
#oppositesattractromance

Happy Birthday to Delphie Burnett, Viscountess Stiles, the lead in the award-winning second-chance, marriage-in-trouble historical romance NOT QUITE A MARRIAGE!

#audaciousladiesofaudley
#historicalromance
#regencyromance
#blissbennet
#secondchanceromance

Happy (almost!) book birthday to @jannamacgregor, for her expanded novella, TWO RUINS MAKE A RIGHT! Coming this Tuesday, July 22...

#jannamacgregor
#regencyromance
#historicalromance
#newrelease

Celebrating family birthdays in Vermont (and Christmas in July!) at @westontheater's production of WHITE CHRISTMAS...

What does your family do to celebrate birthdays?

So exciting! A butterfly was visiting the native perennial garden I planted in a bump-out around the corner from my house last time I went to water. I think it's a Silver Spotted Skipper!

#amgardening
#nativegardening
#nativebutterflies

Testing out my skin-tone markers for Fashion Sketching 1 at
@sfdboston

#amdrawing
#fashiondesign
#markermania