Lesley-Anne McLeod has loved all things British for longer than she can remember. So it was natural that when she turned to writing fiction she should write Regency romances, uniquely English historical romances.

Lesley-Anne has been writing for twenty-five years; The Disadvantaged Gentleman is her six electronically published Regency romance. She has published articles on antiques and collectibles, and has also free-lanced in business writing. Book-selling was her career for nearly ten years; she owned her own bookstore for three of those enjoyable years. She belongs to the Saskatchewan Romance Writers and treasures the support and friendship that group offers.

Lesley-Anne is married and has one daughter.  She lives on the prairies of Canada which are distant from Regency England in time and thought, but which retain an echo of Great Britain in history and tradition.

E-publishing--electronic publishing--is a child of the technological revolution of the past twenty years. 

Books, both fiction and non-fiction, are being published on the Internet for use specifically on computers (home, laptops, or PDAs), or dedicated e-book readers.  This means they are not published in print at all.  They are available electronically--that is they are downloaded from the publisher's site to your computer.  Once the book is saved to your computer, you may do with it what you wish--burn it to a CD, transfer it to an e-book reader, or even print it out.

The e-publishing process is nearly identical to the print publishing process.  The author queries the publisher, the publisher invites submission, the publisher accepts or rejects the submission. Contracts are exchanged. Then the submission is slotted into the publishing schedule, is edited, has jacket information, and cover art prepared, and finally is offered for sale--but on the Internet as opposed to your local bookstore.

Favourite TV shows: Monarch of the Glen, Vicar of Dibley, Keeping Up Appearances, Coronation Street, and the great classics, All Creatures Great and Small, Upstairs~Downstairs, The Forsyte Saga.