Literary Birthday – 17 June – Deanna Raybourn

Happy Birthday, Deanna Raybourn, born on 17 June 1968.

Deanna Raybourn Quotes

1. One of the joys of writing historical fiction is the chance to read as much as you like on a pet subject – so much that you could easily bore your friends senseless on the topic.
2. I could not love a man who did not love Jane Austen.
3. I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them.
4. To know how a character will behave in any given situation is a necessity and a gift.
5. If you lift the romantic element out of my plots, you still have fully formed mysteries. In the same fashion, if you pull the mystery out of a historical romance, you are left with a perfectly satisfying story.
6. Without an expectation of success, one is rarely successful.

Deanna Raybourn is an American author of historical fiction and historical mysteries. Her books include the Lady Julia Grey series. Her novels have been nominated for numerous awards including the Edgar, the Macavity, and the Agatha. She is the author of the Edgar-nominated Veronica Speedwell Victorian mystery series, and her first contemporary thriller—Killers of a Certain Age—published in September of 2022 at #9 on the New York Times bestseller list and won the 2022 Barry Award for Best Thriller. In her free time, she enjoys yoga, reading, and tarot. Find out more on her website.

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