About

My name is Beth Dunn, and I’m so glad you’re here.

I’m a writer and novelist. In my day job, I write and edit various useful things at HubSpot, a nifty little company in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As a novelist, I’m represented by Christina Hogrebe of the Jane Rotrosen Agency, and I write historical romance novels that are set in the Regency era. I am told that they are hilarious. In a good way.

This blog covers all of the various obsessive habits I have, specifically writing, reading, and fetishizing the past. I’m deeply into everything related to 19th-century British and American life, historical fiction and contemporaneous novels from that time, and just about any historical costume dramas you’d care to mention.

I grew up in a drafty old Victorian house on Cape Cod, where I inhaled, imbibed, and otherwise bathed in anything I could find by 19th century authors, including Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Wilkie Collins, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Georgette Heyer.

Oddly enough, it turned out not to be just a phase. Actually, it got worse.

I fought it for a while. Tried to cultivate more fashionable hobbies. To no avail.

Alas.

If you like what you see here, or you’re just curious to see how it’ll all turn out, why not subscribe to my posts by email? I write about once a week, and I’d very much like to have you along. We’ve only just met, but already I think you’re swell.

If you want to contact me, you can either use the form on the Contact page, or do it the old fashioned way via email at beth AT bethdunn DOT com. I pretty much always write back.

PS - People seem to come to this site a lot looking for this post, so here it is, all nice and handy for you:

Why I’m Still Writing This Book