{"id":269,"date":"2024-02-26T19:30:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T19:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jmdiedrich.net\/?p=269"},"modified":"2025-12-19T12:45:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:45:54","slug":"romance-humor-and-cop-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmdiedrich.net\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"Romance, Humor, and Cop Shows?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For those of you who enjoyed book 1 in the Dark Duke Series: <em>A Lady&#8217;s Duke<\/em>, it should be clear I&#8217;m a fan of a complicated plot, and I have <strong>no <\/strong>reservations to use every romance trope in the book&#8211;and for good reason! The old, old (okay, yes) <em>ancient<\/em> advice to &#8220;write what you know&#8221; is exactly how this series started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wanted to take the plot in a different direction&#8211;something with a gratifying climactic villain scene. The first half of A Lady&#8217;s Duke is <em>filled <\/em>with tropes: woman like no other, the rake that must be tamed, the waltz, the perfect dress, she doesn&#8217;t know she&#8217;s beautiful. I know, I know . . . A bit heavy handed, but it <em>was <\/em>my debut. But, by the time the plot takes that twist, you know who Hamish and Charlotte are and what they stand to lose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m a fan of the slow burn and witty banter. What you may not know is that I also love cop shows. <em>Bones<\/em>, <em>Castle<\/em>, <em>Psych<\/em>, <em>Elementary<\/em>, <em>Mentalist<\/em>: if there is a hint of romance and a mystery, I am there! The old saying to write what you know may be outdated, but writing what inspires and delights I hope never gets old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A Lady&#8217;s Duke<\/em> is only the beginning of the story. More plots and mysteries to come. Look for book 2, coming this April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who enjoyed book 1 in the Dark Duke Series: A Lady&#8217;s Duke, it should be clear I&#8217;m a fan of a complicated plot, and I have no reservations to use every romance trope in the book&#8211;and for good reason! The old, old (okay, yes) ancient advice to &#8220;write what you know&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmdiedrich.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmdiedrich.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmdiedrich.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmdiedrich.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmdiedrich.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jmdiedrich.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/jmdiedrich.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmdiedrich.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmdiedrich.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmdiedrich.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmdiedrich.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}