Monica Fairview's Blog, page 46

Big Things Are Happening!

So much news!

I have a YouTube Channel and you can listen to my audiobooks there! I need subscribers so I can start making money on the books, which will allow me to hire more narrators and make more available for free like this.

Help an author out and subscribe?

Uncertain Endeavor is coming soon!

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you hadn’t heard, I had a new book baby earlier this summer! Check out Think of Me, available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.

Mr. Darcy has a gift, though it often feels like a curse.

...

An excerpt from The Best Part of Love focusing on Growth in Adversity

This month’s theme at Austen Variations is Growth in Adversity  (shout out to Joana Starnes who keeps us all well supplied with thought provoking themes!)  I happen to really enjoy thinking of new forms of adversity/torment for Darcy and Elizabeth!

The following is a scene from The Best Part of Love, the first book I ever published.  If you’ve never read it, or its been awhile, Elizabeth is a girl with a hidden past, the widow of an earl who would be in grave danger if her status was known. So s...

Travel adventures

Hello!

I have a non-story sort of post to share with you on this fine summer day. I am very privileged to be able to travel, and I recently returned from an overseas trip with my spouse and daughter. The main part of our holiday was in Norway, which exceeded our expectations. All three of us agreed that we would love to go back and explore more of it.

Since this post is really about showing you a handful of lovely photos—which demonstrate why we found Norway so impressive, given we are all natur...

A P&P Short Story, Part 5

Happy Friday! It’s been a busy week for me, so I’m afraid I still haven’t finished this story…and this installment feels a bit raw and rushed. In other words, thanks for hanging in there with me!

(If you’re new to this story and are brave enough to read the previous installments, here are parts one, two, three, and four.)

I foresee two or three more scenes. For now, here’s our “Ramsgate” moment.

Before reading further, please know that this installment contains implied but non-graphic reference...

Twenty Things To Know About Jane Austen

As many of you are probably aware, yesterday marked the 206th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death. So, in honor of the woman who has essentially brought all of us together, I thought I would take the opportunity to dust off a post from a few years ago to celebrate the life of the iconic author.

Are you an Austen expert? Find out below!

20 Things You Might Not Know About Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Jane Austen Society of North America

Jane Austen was the seventh of eight children. She had six bro...

Pride and Prejudice or Ship of Fools

Pride and Prejudice or Ship of Fools, by Jack Caldwell

Greetings everyone. Jack Caldwell here.

I have had the pleasure of reading and re-reading Miss Jane Austen’s major works many times, and while Persuasion remains my favorite, I can certainly understand the immense popularity of  her wonderful novel Pride and Prejudice. Heck, I’ve written ten variations of, and sequels to, P&P in the last nineteen years, so that ought to tell you something.

There is a reason I keep coming back to Pride and P...

A P&P Short Story, Part 4

Here’s the fourth part of my modern P&P short story!

All right, so I said I’d finish this story by today’s post, but as with all my projects, it keeps growing and growing…a bit like the little plant in the featured image for this post. (If you’re reading this post in your email, you may need to visit the site to see the image.)

I used this photo to inspire part of today’s installment. Many thanks to L.L. Diamond for designing the theme banner for the month!

I really am near the end of this tale,...

Mary Bennet in “Ramsgate”

 

Happy Wednesday, Janeites!  I hope you are bearing the weather in your part of the globe. We are warming up here on the West Coast of the U.S., and are surviving record breaking heat.  As I’m sitting in my air conditioned house sipping strawberry lemonade, I have been working on my WIP ‘Ramsgate’ (still deciding on the title. Thanks for all your help!), and I began to consider minor characters. Because of that, today I wanted to talk about the most overlooked character in Pride and Prejudice:...

Cover Prototypes for “Mr. Knightley in His Own Words”

Yay! I finally finished writing Mr. Knightley in His Own Words, my third Austen hero story, and now it’s time to think about the cover. How exciting! Cover design is one of my favorite parts of the process, bringing together my love of art and my love of books. And I thought it would be fun to invite you into the process, too.

As you may or may not know, each of the covers for my other two Austen hero stories was inspired by a still shot from one of the movie adaptions of the original book. I fe...

Ramsgate Excerpt & Help Me Choose My Title!

Happy Monday, Janeites!  I do hope your July is starting out with a bang! To paraphrase Mansfield Park, ‘Life has been a succession of busy nothings’ for the last week, and it’s just what I needed to recharge my batteries! I have completed two more chapters on my upcoming novella, and it’s taking shape better than I had hoped.

 

Today, I am going to give you a small peek into chapter 8. As you may recall, Elizabeth has foiled Mr. Wickham’s plot to elope with Georgiana before Mr. Darcy arrives. ...