Everyone loves pirates now, but it was not always so. In the late 17th and early 18th century, privateers, buccaneers, and pirates made ocean travel treacherous for honest seamen.

Emily's 5th book, PLEASURING THE PIRATE features a number of little known facts about those seafaring scallywags you won't see in the Disney version. If you'd like an article or an interview about the seawolves of the Caribbean, please Contact Em. 

2008 was not the only time a stock market plummeted. In 1720, the London Exchange toppled with the bursting of the "South Sea Bubble."

In VEXING THE VISCOUNT, my hero's father lost his fortune in the debacle. If you'd like some historical perspective about market crashes and recoveries, please Contact Em.

LITTLE KNOWN FACTS . . .

                     Emily Bryan graduated summa cum laude from the University of  Northern Iowa with a degree in Music.

                     She won the District Metropolitan Opera Auditions and went on to debut with the Denver Symphony. She sang at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC and created the role of Marianne in the southeastern premier of Kirk Meecham's Tartuffe.

                     Emily has lived in 9 different states! Missouri, Iowa, Colorado, Minnesota, North Carolina, Wyoming, Utah, Washington, and Massachusetts! Good thing she loves to travel. She is embarrassed to admit she's lost track of how many times she's been to Europe and spent one of the best days of her life in the National Gallery in London.

CALLING IN THE PROS . . .

For a brilliant editor: Leah Hultenschmidt, Dorchester Publishing

www.romanticreads.net

For rights: Natasha Kern, Natasha Kern Literary Agency

www.natashakern.com