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Of course, sometime I'm Sir Reginald Scott, Regency dandy extraordinaire. Many Regency romances cast the heroine in the role of masquerading as a man. Partly as a joke, I threatened to try this tactic myself at the annual Regency Soire, hosted by the Beau Monde. The Beau Monde is the chapter of Romance Writers of America that specializes in Regency-era romances. The Soire is held in conjunction with the Romance Writers of America annual conference and features dancing from the Regency. Unfortunately, the ladies always far outnumber the gentlemen. I thought it would be funny if I tried to masquerade as a gentleman to help even the odds and prove once and for all whether a woman could pass for a fellow. It was funny, all right. In fact, Sir Reggie is so popular that I haven't been able to leave him home for years.
Oh, wait, you probably want the official line.
Ahem.
Regina Scott started writing novels in the third grade. Thankfully for literature as we know it, she didn't actually sell her first novel until she had learned a bit more about writing such as vocabulary, sentence structure, and plot. After numerous short stories and articles in magazines and trade journals, she got serious about her novel writing, published 17 historical romances for adults, and realized it would be a lot more interesting to write for young adults instead.
Regina Scott and her husband are the parents of two teenage sons. They reside in the Tri-Cities of southeast Washington State. Raised in the Seattle area, Regina Scott is a graduate of the University of Washington. She is also a decent fencer; owns a historical, fantasy, and science fiction costume collection that takes up over a third of her large closet; and has been known to impersonate an independent consultant specializing in risk communication.
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