You did it! We figured this one out! It is a truth universally acknowledged (by me for certain) that the Bitchery pretty much knows everything, and really, it's true. Scroll down to see the solution for this HaBO - and many thanks!
This HaBO request is from Tina, who is looking for an older Harlequin:
I think this may be a Harlequin from the late 80s or early 90s.
The hero is unable to draw for his comic and he requests a pinch hitter for the interim. Unfortunately “Tony” is actually Toni and hijinks ensue with the typical “Blah blah, but you’re a WOMAN (OMG)!”
Of course she proves herself and he redeems his crap attitude for the HEA.
He better grovel!
Heartland
by Bethany Campbell
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Can’t help with the book but I do want to know what it is .
Please let there be a line where Toni’s all sarcastic and ‘oh no, I cannot hold this big, manly pencil *snerk* with my weak, delicate lady hands.’
And now I’m off to read reviews of that Bic pen that was designed for women (a goodie here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/customer-reviews/RDKHK7J88SUL3/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_viewpnt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B004FTGJUW#RDKHK7J88SUL3 )
This rings SO MANY bells for me – I’m almost certain I read it as a teen, so in the early 90s. However, my immediate thought was that it might have been one of Kay Hooper’s old Loveswept romances, and having looked through as many of those listings as I could find, none of them seem to match at all. So…???
I’ll keep checking back here because I really want to know, now, too!
It sounds like Heartland by Bethany Campbell, though the heroine’s name is Toby.
https://www.fictiondb.com/title/heartland~bethany-campbell~5905.htm
Not remotely the book in question, but the name gave me flashbacks of Seduced, the Old Skool Virginia Henley book with Lady Antonia/Tony. Good times. LOL.
My first reaction to this one was “I read this plot at the time,” and I think it is Heartland by Bethany Campbell – that cover rings faint bells.
That sounds like it! Thank you!