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Golden Angel Samples A Season for Treason
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Katherine Grant: Welcome to the historical romance sampler podcast. I'm your host, Katherine Grant, and each week I introduce you to another amazing historical romance author. My guest reads a little sample of their work, and then we move into a free ranging interview. If you like these episodes, don't forget to subscribe to the historical romance sampler, wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.
Now let's get into this week's episode. I am thrilled to be joined today by Golden Angel. Golden is a USA Today best selling author who writes heart and bottom warming romance. She is happily married, old enough to know better but still too young to care, and a big fan of happily ever afters, strong heroes and heroines, and sizzling chemistry.
When she's not writing, she can be found on the couch reading, [00:01:00] in front of her sewing machine making a new cosplay, hanging out with her friends, Or, Wandering the Maryland Renaissance Fair. Golden, I'm so glad you are here today. Thank you so much for joining.
Golden Angel: Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be here.
Katherine Grant: Yes, I actually you got name checked by one of my previous guests, Maggie Sims, as being one of her original inspirations for writing and publishing.
Golden Angel: Oh goodness, she's so kind.
Katherine Grant: Yeah, so I, I already knew about you, and then once she said that, I was like, well, I really wanted to talk about, talk to Golden, so I was so glad when you expressed interest, and yeah, I'm glad we're doing this today.
Golden Angel: Absolutely, yeah, I love Maggie. She is incredibly sweet, and she's a very good author, so I appreciate her shout out.
Katherine Grant: Yeah, so what are you going to read for us today?
Golden Angel: So today I am reading from A Season for Treason, which is book one of my Deception and Discipline series. I like to describe this series as Bridgerton, but [00:02:00] with spankings and spies.
So basically I wanted a debutante girl gang hunting down a traitor for the crown, and in this first book Mary, who's our, my wallflower is, she goes unnoticed. Think a little bit Penelope vibes from the Bridgerton series but instead of turning it into a gossip column she and her friends have decided that this makes her the perfect person to infiltrate the Society of Sin, which is a secret society within society, and it's, they're, basically, they're suspicious, they know that the traitor has some kind of connection to the Society of Sin, they aren't sure what Mary has been introduced to the known leader Who goes by Rex, he's actually the Marquess of Hartford.
But everyone within the society calls him Rex because he's the king of their society. And he is a rake, unrepentant. And this season he happens to be looking for a wife. Which Mary does not realize. [00:03:00] When she starts trying to, when she starts trying to spy on him, and as a wallflower, she's, she's been very shy, she's always overlooked.
People don't even notice when she's in the room, they just talk, and so she's always overhearing gossip and things that she's not supposed to. And they feel like this makes her the perfect person, of course, to go into the society on a masquerade night. But she, Rex, is the only person. Who notices her, and he always notices her.
So we're actually, we're not going to do the masquerade one, but this happens, what I'm reading from happens a little bit earlier. When she's still kind of trying to follow him around before we get into him catching her in his house. Sounds like a great setup. Yeah, okay. So, this is starting from Mary's point of view.
In the dense crush of people attending the Richmond's Ball, Mary's short stature became an advantage. Aunt Elizabeth had settled in for a good gossip with her friend, Lady Walsh, [00:04:00] directing Thomas, (that's Mary's cousin) to promenade with Arabella and Mary, so they could look over this year's gentlemen while there were many returning possibilities.
There were also many newcomers to the marriage mart coming from the country or finally rising out of the shadows of London, bowing to the inevitability of finding a suitable bride. While Thomas was certainly accomplished as a chaperone, he clearly thought Arabella was the likelier troublemaker, focusing most of his attention on his wife.
When Lord Herschel trod on her flounce, tearing it, and Arabella turned to rip up at him, Thomas was there to stimmy her, releasing Mary's hold on his arm. It was that easy to slip behind the large frame of the gentleman standing just to the side of her and disappear into the crowd. As short as she was, neither Arabella nor Thomas should be able to easily spot her once she was away from them, and therefore they could not expect her to see them.
They would expect her to make her way back to Aunt Elizabeth, and she would, eventually. First, though, Mary made her way [00:05:00] up to the second floor, where there was a gallery overlooking the ballroom. She was far from the only person looking down at the crowd, and she could certainly move about more freely.
Half hidden behind one of the columns, she was able to see everything and everyone below. It appeared Thomas and Arabella were now arguing, and she had to wonder if they had even noticed her absence. Reminding herself that it was a boon they so easily forgot her, she kept looking for familiar faces. Ah, there were Josie and Lily, her friends, on the far side of the room, standing in a circle of admirers.
Perhaps- But no, she spotted Hartford talking with the French delegation. Seeking out her friends would have to wait. He was speaking with the French, and Evie had her suspicions of them. There were quite a few pretty ladies in the group, and Mary had to push away the little claws of jealousy digging into her chest when Hartford smiled down at the dark haired beauty he was speaking to.
He had looked that way at Mary when he was bowing over her hand and it hadn't meant a thing. Which was good, she reminded herself. [00:06:00] She needed to stop mooning over Hartford like a lovesick schoolgirl just because he made her tingle and the skin on the back of her hand still felt warm from where his lips had pressed against her glove.
While Mary was not a complete innocent young miss, thanks to Evie's explanations, since she actually was experienced in such matters, Mary dismissed her body's reaction as the result of having a practiced rake focus on her. Any other rake would likely have the same effect if another ever chose to target her with his attentions.
Hartford was nothing special. He was- Mary frowned. He was moving away from the French delegation and heading to the doors of the garden, alone. Had he arranged to meet with one of them in a quieter, more private space than the ballroom provided? Perhaps he had arranged an assignation. Or perhaps there was a more nefarious purpose.
Rather than waiting to see who moved after him, Mary decided to hurry downstairs. She could dog his footsteps and see who came to meet him, which would be easier than trying to ascertain who, if anyone, followed him. [00:07:00] Scurrying down the hall, she felt a little spurt of excitement flare in her chest. And then we're moving to Rex's point of view.
The din of the ballroom and cloying perfume of the French ladies had begun to give him a headache. While the ladies were beautiful and flirtatious, happily hinting at their availability for a divertissement, an affair with a married lady was not his current aim. His friend Lucas slipped away as well during the conversation.
Likely headed to the card tables. Rex needed a moment to collect himself before he dragged his friend away from punting himself up the river tick. Moving steadily away from the house, seeking refuge in the high hedges of the garden pathways, Rex sighed with relief as the noise slowly quieted. The night air was cool against his skin,
slowly clearing his lungs of the chaotic mix of scents that had clashed in the ballroom. The sensation that his cravat had created a noose around his neck slowly subsided, as did the headache that had been growing. Ton balls were certainly not his preferred form of [00:08:00] entertainment, and his reason for attending had only added to his discontent.
Slowing his stride, taking the time to look at some of the flowers under the moonlight, and admitting to himself he was only doing so to delay his return to the ball, he became aware that he was being followed. At first, he thought it might be one of the French ladies looking for an assignation. But when he paused to examine a rosebush, so did his pursuer. A lady hoping
for a tryst would hardly be so shy, but he did detect a sweep of pale skirts when he turned his head back as if looking over his shoulder. Very pale skirts. A debutante? Following a rake into a darkened garden? It wasn't plausible, but very few ladies wore that pale a hue during the season. Intrigued, Rex wandered on, turning a corner with a suitably thick rhododendron for him to hide behind, waiting for the lady so he could see who she was.
Any debutante with the audacity to follow him into the garden piqued his interest. As long as she was not a title or fortune [00:09:00] hunter. Hell, perhaps even if she was. There was no rule saying a young lady searching for a title or fortune would not make an entertaining and enjoyable wife. His eyebrows rose at the figure that appeared next to the rhododendron, hugging its branches as she looked about, trying to see where he had gone.
It was Miss Wilson. Apparently, not as much a cypher as she had appeared next to her cousin. Perhaps he had been hasty in his judgment. "Hello there." His voice was a low purr as he emerged from the shadows of the bush, looming over her from a mere foot away. Her eyes widening, she stepped back, but she did not run, her head tipping back up to stare at him.
"Looking for someone?"
"I-" She blinked. Rallied. Her chin came up with a stubborn, feminine air. "Lord Hartford, I seem to have lost my way. My apologies for interrupting your evening." Rex took a step closer, tilting his head down. In the moonlight, it was hard to see whether she paled or blushed, but he saw the rising panic in her eyes.
Despite that, she [00:10:00] held her ground, rather than retreating again, which only intrigued him more. "Have you?" He asked, standing close enough that the pale blue skirts of her dress brushed his shins. "Have I?" She repeated.
She didn't seem to be able to look away. Rex leaned down, his lips moving closer and closer to hers, giving her ample time to run. Would she run, or would she let him kiss her? "Lost your way." Her eyelashes fluttered against her cheeks and then his lips were on hers. It started as a gentle kiss, a firm press of his lips against hers, but when she did not immediately jump back, Rex's own desires, pushed him onward, his hands found her hips, holding her in place and pulling her lower body against his.
Perhaps Miss Wilson had been hampered by her stuffy cousin's expectations and overshadowed by Arabella's exuberant confidence in the ballroom. But out here, in the darkness of the garden, she was revealing an adventurous and far more interesting sidee than he would have ever [00:11:00] guessed. Running his tongue along the seam of her lips, he was gratified when she opened on a gasp.
He ruthlessly deepened the kiss, his hand sliding to her back to cradle her against him. She met his tongue with her own, uncertainly at first, then with growing confidence, stirring his passions. Satisfaction and interest welled. Well now, perhaps tonight was not a total loss.
Katherine Grant: Oooooh! What a wonderful setup and steamy conclusion, and I can only imagine the steam that follows.
Golden Angel: Ha ha ha, oh, they're a lot of fun. It's, it's very much a cat and mouse game between them because she's hunting him, thinking that he might know something about the traitor, and he's hunting her, thinking she might make a good wife. Yeah, that's really
Katherine Grant: fun. That's a good opposition and thing to play with.
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Katherine Grant: Well, I am back with Golden Angel, who just read us from, who just [00:13:00] read from A Season for Treason. Which, by the way, is just such a fun title.
Golden Angel: I love my alliterations.
Katherine Grant: So there are a couple of things from the specific sample that you read that I want to ask about. First of all, I love the concept that this series is following these, these debutants who are spies and that the wallflower, which is a perceived weakness, is actually her superpower.
Can you talk about that theme a little bit? And do we see that for all the other debutants as well?
Golden Angel: Absolutely. So basically the idea behind this series I had an idea for a lady spy and I really wanted to write that. And it, when I, when I started really thinking about this series, I decided that my lady spy, she is the niece to the spymaster for the crown.
Her uncle and her cousins raised her. And they want her to be like in a regular debutante and she wants to be a spy. So she's constantly just kind of like budding into their business, basically, [00:14:00] and they're always trying to keep her out of it. So when she finds out that a traitor has tried to assassinate the Duke of York she and her cousins and uncle are, as usual, trying to keep her out of it.
She gathers up her three best friends, who are all debutantes, Takes the information that she has and is basically like you're going to help me catch the traitor to the crown. So she's our general. Mary is the wallflower. So she's like the one who blends in, the one who overhears the gossip. Josie is the honeypot.
She's the diamond of the first water. People, she's blonde, she's beautiful, she's bubbly. Everyone assumes she has no brains. And also when you need a distraction, she's perfect for that because she walks into a room and everybody's eyes go straight to her. And then Lily is my blue stocking. She's extremely intelligent, has very little patience for this whole season thing, and is really only there because Evie asked her to be.
And she also has a lot of contacts on the continent. She does like pen pals. She loves to [00:15:00] learn, she's constantly reading, and so she's got all sorts of different kinds of knowledge at her fingertips. And I think one of my favorite things is that I did Josie's story, which is the second book, is an oops, I married the wrong brother.
So she, she's been in love with one of Evie's cousins for years Joseph, but Joseph falls in love with this debutante named Miss Bliss. And so he ends up marrying her and Josie gets into a scandal that requires her to get married. And at first it looks like she's going to have to marry Joseph, but then his older brother
Elijah steps into the fray and says he'll marry Josie. Which allows Joseph to marry the debutante that he wants, Miss Bliss. And poor Miss Bliss is kind of the typical debutante. And so she, she gets left out of everything, first of all. No one's telling her anything that's going on until the danger starts becoming too much that everyone needs to be informed that things are getting dangerous and you need to be safe.
But her, her superpower [00:16:00] is that she is the typical debutante, and she really helps them out later in one of the books because she has all of the families memorized. She knows who all the eligible young men are. She knows who are the families, who the families are, who they're connected to.
She keeps track of the invitations. She keeps track of the events that they're invited to. She keeps track of who's probably going to show up to those events. And that turns out to be necessary information. So, you know, the book, and, and she gets a book in a later series. But this series, because this series really centered around these four young women who are, like, not the usual debutante, I really did want to have that side character who came in and was like, no, but all the, all the things that were supposed to be, those are also a superpower.
This comes with that. A particular kind of knowledge and it comes with a particular skill set that is also valuable. So yeah, I mean, this, this really was a series very much centered around the women, the power that women could have, even in a society that, [00:17:00] by and large, didn't give them much power.
They really had to you work within confines, like work within boundaries work within confines that were set on them by society. And especially at the level of rank that they held, they were even more confined. And so these four step out of it and fight against it. And Miss bliss is there in the middle of it going, well, I also have something to offer.
So
Katherine Grant: I love that. I love that. It's balancing out the like, pick me, I'm not like other girls. Like actually, all kinds of girls are great.
Golden Angel: Yeah, and they make such and they make a great group of friends. That was the other thing is I really I love writing groups of friends. I love writing groups of supportive women.
And the fact that I could write a whole series about a girl group that's just trying desperately to hunt down a traitor to the crown but they keep getting caught in scandals that require them to get married to men who like to spank them is just like [00:18:00] that's. That's everything.
Katherine Grant: Well, and so for the spy intrigue part of it, is that at all based on like actual historical events?
Because I know there were some assassination attempts and assassinations during the Regency period.
Golden Angel: It is not at all based on any kind of, and I, I'm actually very careful. I don't put the date, like, I don't put the year that any of this is happening. I try to keep context clues kind of as vague as possible. You know, I'll, I'll mention things that have happened in the past, I'll mention inventions, stuff like that. You know, and it, it, some people ask me if it's Regency, some people ask me if it's Victorian, I always just say yes. I'm like, it's whatever you want it to be.
In my head, personally, I do think it veers more towards Victorian, and you'll occasionally hear reference to the Queen and you'll occasionally hear, like, one, one of the things that happens in this is that we do have Lily's Book the [00:19:00] third one she ends up with a with a very intelligent man,
who's an inventor, and he has invented a steam powered sex machine Which didn't exist. I mean they did but they had a tendency to blow up That's a little problematic Like I saw I spent a whole afternoon like researching, but there were, you know, with the technology of the time, there were some issues with like the boiler and the release of steam and having it in such a small.
Katherine Grant: All right. So tell me more about this research, like journey. Is it, is this stuff, are there like museums or specific research?
Golden Angel: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's museums, there's books, there's a lot of online articles. I mean, we have, in, in several museums, I actually visited one in Amsterdam, of course that was a museum of sex, and they had displays, and you can see a lot of pictures of displays of, like, the machine, not the machines, [00:20:00] like, but the, the steam powered ones, but, like, actual machines that were used, that were mostly hand crank because That, that's what didn't blow up.
There's, there's a variety of, of sex, historical sex toys and articles about them. There's videos, there's a wonderful historian She goes by Kinky History, and I know she's on both YouTube and TikTok, and she's just fabulous. She always has, like, really great videos on all sorts of, like, historical naughty things that I just adore.
But yeah, I mean, I had heard of them, but I I'd heard that steampower sex machines were, like, a thing, and I was really excited about it, so I went to research them and found out that actually they weren't really a thing, because they did tend to explode, and that was, you know, Something that didn't seem to be overcome.
So I decided that for my purposes My hero was a very, very good inventor, and he figured out a way around it. Unfortunately, his designs and machine were lost to time, so that's why we don't have him today.
Katherine Grant: Yeah, you know, you never know what got lost to time.
Golden Angel: He [00:21:00] kept it for personal use, you know, like, and then his children, when they inherited, were probably like, oh god, get rid of it.
Katherine Grant: All right, well, one thing I want to ask is you know, you write across a broad variety of romance, Subgenres. Contemporary, paranormal, historical. When you write historical, what brings you back to it? And maybe what does it offer you that the other genres don't offer?
Golden Angel: So I, I actually wanted to major in history when I was in college for a little bit.
I love history. I read history non fiction books for fun. There are specific time periods that I get really invested in. To the lesser extent, regency but I read a ton and you know once I found out that there was historical romance I started reading a ton of that, you know and it kind of, you know Part of the reason I do genre hop so much is because I have trouble writing in the same [00:22:00] world, two books in a row.
It's like, I finish a book and stuff changes. I have outlines, I don't completely pants it, as we say, you know. I usually have an outline, I have a plot, I know what's gonna happen. But as I'm writing, things change.
So a lot of the time what I really need is after I finish
a
book in my contemporary series, while I'm writing that book, a lot of the time, I'm thinking about the historical, which is the next thing I'll be writing. And then, because when I finished that contemporary book, things will have changed.
And I'm going to need to think through those changes and how that's going to change the next contemporary book, and so I'll do that while I'm writing my next historical so basically instead of taking like breaks to do all this thinking, I'm just working on something else that i've already thought about.
Katherine Grant: And that's a really clever way to handle that.
Golden Angel: Yeah, and the really nice thing about going back and forth between the contemporary and the historical is the way that it allows me, especially since I write [00:23:00] kinky books, the way that it allows me to play with the power dynamics. My contemporaries by necessity are very consent driven.
They're very they are BDSM in that, you know, there's safe words, there's, you know, Explicit consent. There's clubs. There's, you know, stuff like that. With my historicals, I get to play a little bit more with power dynamics in a way that I just don't get to with contemporary because of the time period, and in some ways, having those constraints about, around what the women can and can't do makes me be more creative because it's not, I can't just be like, oh yeah, and then she got on a horse astride and rode to where she wanted to go without a companion, you know, like she's she's got to work around all these things, which makes it a little bit more challenging.
It also makes it. It makes it kind of fun because I don't have to follow the rules of explicit consent so much. And I, you know, what I [00:24:00] approve of in real life is very different from what I approve of in fiction. But when I'm writing contemporary, it's almost like I'm writing more real life. And so I have a much bigger problem writing anything where the consent is a little bit more dubious, where the things that some of my historical heroes would do if I put them in a contemporary, I'd be like, no, you cannot, not allowed, not in this day and age but when I'm writing historical, for some reason it's fine, because I know that, like, it's a different, it's a different era, there are different expectations of the men.
And so I'm able to kind of let go of my modern sensibilities of like, no, that's not okay. And just be like, and just enjoy the fantasy of it. And that, that's really, I think, what keeps drawing me back to it. And I, even there, like, my historicals have gotten I say more consent-y as I've gone along. My oldest series, which is the domestic discipline quartet.
It's very much like she does [00:25:00] something naughty, she gets thrown over his knee. By the time we get to the deception and discipline series it's much more, you know, he's crooking his finger and saying, come here and put yourself over my knee. And actually in the last book, Evie, my, my bossy lady spy, at one point, he's giving her a spanking because she did something and she, you know, he asks, says something to her, you know, like asking, well, why do you think you're getting the spanking? And she looks at him, this is one of my favorite lines that I've ever written, which is why I can remember it.
She looks at him and she goes, "I'm not letting you spank me because I think I deserve it. I'm letting you spank me because I like it."
Katherine Grant: Oh, yeah, that's great.
Golden Angel: Yeah. And I was just like, it's so her. And I mean, all of my heroines enjoy their spankings to a degree, but in the, in the first series that I ever wrote, they certainly don't know that the first time it happens to them.
And there are more, like, disciplinary, right? [00:26:00] Disciplinary spankings and stuff like that. And then by the time we get to deception and discipline, it's much more about, like, you're being punished, but is it really a punishment? Like
Katherine Grant: Yeah. All right, I think it's time to play Love It or Leave It.
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Katherine Grant: All right, Love It or Leave It. Protagonists meet in the first 10 percent of the novel.
Golden Angel: I do love it. When it takes too long for people to meet. It, it drives me a little nuts and actually I prefer it if the, if the protagonists meet like several books before their book.
Oh, okay. I love it. I like, I like that real slow burn. Even when I write different series, but they're all in the set in the same world, like my Deception and Discipline series, Mary and Rex actually appear in the series prior to that, which you don't have to read, you know, if you don't want to, but they appear in like the third book of that series.
And so they, I got to know them over a couple books [00:27:00] before writing their book. So yeah. And then if I'm starting like my new series that I'm starting where they didn't meet in previous books, I didn't have a setup for them. I still made it. My upcoming book is the Duke's Indecent Scandal and the hero and heroine, it's a brother's best friend.
Because I wanted them to have met before the book even started. That is how wedded I am to that.
Katherine Grant: I love that. Okay, love it or leave it. Dual point of view narration.
Golden Angel: Love it. I, that's mostly what I write. I will very occasionally write from one point of view, but mostly I like to go back and forth.
Katherine Grant: Love it or leave it, third person, past tense?
Golden Angel: It's almost exclusively what I write in. So I love it. I occasionally write something else. Sometimes I'll write first person. I usually write past tense. I have a few books I think where it was first person present, but there has to be a pretty good reason for it.
Like I, my comfort zone is third person [00:28:00] past.
Katherine Grant: Love it or leave it, the third act breakup or dark moment?
Golden Angel: Mostly leave it. I have what I like to call gray moments. Oh. I don't really like breakups. It's usually some kind of hurdle that needs to be resolved.
And you know, the dark moment isn't so much a, Oh God, how can they ever get over this? But a, but more of, well, sometimes it is. But it, you know, it, it tends to be more of like emotionally dark. In that, they don't know how to get past this hurdle that has come up in front of them. But you know, one of the reasons I like to say that my books are like heart and bottom warming is because I do like a heavy emphasis on the heart warming.
I don't love angst a little bit. You know, you want to, you want to know that they're earning their happily ever after. But I prefer books where you feel really good while you're reading it. And it's like, you get to that moment and [00:29:00] you're like, okay, this is hard. This is hard, but I believe they can make it through.
So I don't really like like a dark, dark moment, but a gray moment. There's something that needs to be overcome, and if they can get their act together, they'll be able to do it, overcome it together.
Katherine Grant: I like that. Okay, love it or leave it, always end with an epilogue?
Golden Angel: Love it. Yeah, I love epilogues.
This is partly because my books are so connected, I think. I usually write the epilogue from the point of view of the characters of the next book. Because I do, I will say, I don't like to do epilogues where it's like the characters from that book and oh we're getting a little hint of them in the future, that's not really my thing.
So like when you get to the end of a season for treason, The epilogue, I believe, is from Josie's point of view because she's the next book, and she, so we're seeing a little bit of, like, her problems and, like, what's coming up in the next book and that's how I like to do my epilogues.
Katherine Grant: All right.
Love it or leave it? Always share research in the author's note. [00:30:00]
Golden Angel: I love it when other authors do it. I actually rarely do it myself. Mostly because like I said, like I just, I don't know where a lot of my knowledge comes from at this point because I've spent my entire life reading historical nonfiction for fun.
So like if I'm just sitting there reading history books and like I'm watching things and I don't always write down, you know, it's kind of just all in my head in a jumble. I rarely have to look things up at this point. And when I do, I'm usually just like looking online real quick to make sure that what I think is true is true.
Like, I'm just looking for confirmation. So for the most part, I don't put research And with the exception of explaining in a season for smugglers that yes, I know that steam, steam powered sex machines blow up and that they didn't actually work and I don't care. I put it in the book anyway. And here's a link.
Yes. So that's like the one time that I'm like, yes, I did the research. I understand. I don't care. That was my author's note.
Katherine Grant: I love it. And are there any other romance [00:31:00] rules that I didn't ask about that you break or Maybe just push the boundaries on?
Golden Angel: Oh, I always love to play with the romance rules and expectations.
You know, like. doing a group of debutantes that are hunting down a traitor to the crown. Like, I understand how ridiculous that sounds. And the series that followed that was Femdom Histrom. So, it's the ladies in charge and like it, it, which is the desire and discipline series, which, you know, many people would have told me, I think, do not write, Fem Dom
historical romance but the, the books do really well. People seem to really like them. And I, I think there is more of a call for it too, but yeah, I think one of the fun things about being so immersed in historical romance is kind of knowing the rules so that I can play with them so that I can break them.
Katherine Grant: Yeah, I love that.
Okay, and speaking of, The Duke's Indecent Scandal is coming out April 29th. [00:32:00]
Golden Angel: Yes, and that is, it's the first book of the Indecent Dukes series. And that, you know, so that's another way, I I don't normally write all Dukes this, this series is gonna be all Dukes, but the way that I had to make it work in my head, because I know, I'm like, there's, this is an unfathomable, there's seven Dukes who are young and handsome and all in need of brides.
This is ridiculous. How do I set this up? So in a previous book in a different series, I set up the, I, the fact that, like, seven dukes had, or actually, a whole group, I think a total was eight dukes had been died in a hunting lodge gunpowder explosion and fire. So now heirs are in need of wives and heirs because they're, they became dukes all at once, much sooner than they expected to.
Katherine Grant: Wow. That's a creative way. Yeah, that's very creative.
Golden Angel: So, and that's how I made it work in my head, because I, I do, [00:33:00] you know, I do have that like, how, there, there are a lot of dukes just running around that are young and handsome all at the same time in historical romances, and that's how I fixed it. Yeah.
So.
Katherine Grant: Alright, so A Duke's Indecent Scandal comes out April 29th. A Season for Treason, which is what we heard today, is already out, so listeners can go read it. Where can our listeners find you and your books on the interwebs?
Golden Angel: So my website, which has all of my books listed out on it, is www.
goldenangelromance. com. And it will also prompt you to sign up for my newsletter, which will give you free books and bonus scenes if you sign up. I am on most social media, however, I'm not active on most of them. I am, you are most likely to actually be able to like find me to interact with on Facebook.
Where I'm on there is Golden Angel, but specifically in my Facebook group, which is called the Golden Angel [00:34:00] Legion Lair. And we have a lot of fun in there. active group. People like sharing memes, sharing other books, asking questions. It's a very kink friendly group. We've had people ask about the lifestyle, getting into it, stuff like that.
And then I am also the other place that I'm mostly active is TikTok.
Katherine Grant: That's great. Well, I'm going to put a link to your website in the show notes, so listeners, you can just click on through and I know there's a call out to that Facebook group on your website too. So everyone will be able to find it.
Golden Angel: Yay. Thank you so much. Yeah. Well, thank you so much.
Katherine Grant: This has been such a blast.
Thank you for coming on.
Golden Angel: Oh, of course. Thank you so much for having me. It was so nice to be able to chat with you.
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