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January 29, 2023
An Announcement and an Excerpt from An Endeavour to be Worthy
If you have yet to hear the buzz, Deborah Balm has agreed to narrate An Endeavour to be Worthy! I am excited and hope to have that released by the end of February or the beginning of March depending upon ACX’s turnover time for reviewing the files, so look out for the release post.
In the meantime, I have an excerpt to offer. I hope you enjoy!
Elizabeth stood as Mr. Darcy, his sister, and Colonel Fitzwilliam were announced. Since the conversation with Nicholas, she had managed to avoid the top...
January 26, 2023
Excerpt from A Short Period of Exquisite Felicity–the Thaw!
The theme of the month is The Thaw and it recalled me back to one of my older books, A Short Period of Exquisite Felicity. February of 1814 there was a Frost Fair in London and Darcy and Elizabeth meet there (in my book) and the thaw begins, even if the temperatures were sub-zero! Hope you enjoy this little excerpt!
It appeared that a city of sorts had sprouted on the icy Thames. A grand mall ran from London Bridge to Blackfriars Bridge with tents offering anything a person could desire, or so ...
January 25, 2023
The Truth About Family Audiobook Announcement
I am delighted to announce that the audiobook for The Truth About Family is now available! The wonderful Stevie Zimmerman narrated it, so you know it sounds amazing. You can find it at Audible.
To celebrate, I thought I’d share a scene that is not in the book. I have a fair bit of material I cut from the story, including scenes from Darcy and Elizabeth’s childhood, and that is what I reached into for today. I hope you enjoy this glimpse of Elizabeth’s first experience at Pemberley.
They were me...
January 22, 2023
Guess Whose Book Just Joined Club 1000!
Celebrate with me! I’ve joined Club 1000!
Never heard of it? I’m not surprised, since I just made it up. But I hope you’ll agree that it’s a prestigious honor nonetheless. The Club is for books that have been purchased, read, and enjoyed by enough people to collect at least 1000 ratings/reviews on Amazon, and The Darcys of Pemberley, my bestseller, has just qualified! I said people had “enjoyed” it, because that’s what the ratings reflect: an average of 4.4 stars.
Not bad for the debut novel of...
January 19, 2023
Cover Reveal, Excerpt & Ongoing Giveaway
Hello, and thanks again for your wonderful comments to my first post about my new book!
Your warm welcome means so much to me! Thank you!! You’re amazing!!
I hope you’ll like the cover too, and the excerpt I’m posting today.
Book Blurb:
A narrow escape and a staggering encounter mere miles from the gates of Pemberley leave Mr Darcy in no doubt: The Fates have grown tired of nudging gently.
And now Elizabeth is in his home. Beside him. Every waking hour of every day.
“I missed you. Dreadf...
January 18, 2023
Inspiration Strikes-An Excerpt from my Unexpected Current Work in Progress
Good morning, dear readers! Have you ever been moving along so perfectly in your life that everything seems to be falling into place? You have your work done, the house is clean, laundry is folded, all dinners are set for the next week…basically EVERYTHING is laid out for your life to go as smoothly as possible? And it does, until a train comes along and swipes you off the rails!
Well, that’s what happened to me about a week ago. I have been progressing at a lovely pace in my current work, “...
January 15, 2023
Interview with Lucy Marin
Happy New Year!
Also, my best wishes to you all for peace and dignity on this day celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
For me, 2023 is already off to a lovely start. Case in point? I have the great privilege of sharing this interview with our own Lucy Marin as my first post of the year!
I ended 2022 by reading The Marriage Bargain – a compelling novel that explores how class and money might impact our dear couple. Soon I hope to read Lucy’s newest novel, The Truth About Family, which sh...
January 12, 2023
New Year, New Book
Hello again! I hope you had a good start to 2023. Thanks for stopping by to have a peek at what I’ve been up to in 2022.
My WIP is a winter story, so how about starting with an excerpt from a snowy day?
I’ve never had the chance to see much snow at Pemberley. Just a dusting of it, or frost. I wish I could tickle your imagination with the right sort of photos, but this is the best I’ve got. I’m afraid you’ll have to imagine the grounds covered in a lot more snow than that:
Winter at Pemberley
W...
January 11, 2023
Throwback Thursday
Because of something that happened just this past week, I thought I would do a Throwback Thursday post on one of my earlier books, “Master Under Good Regulation.” This book was a Pride and Prejudice story told from the perspective of Darcy’s English Springer Spaniel, Reggie.
A few years after I had written and then published the book, we got our very own Reggie, also an English Springer Spaniel. That was 13 years ago, and on January 3 we had to make the tough decision to put her down.
After deci...
January 10, 2023
Writing like Jane Austen Wrote
Jane Austen’s Writing DeskWhenever we think about writing in the ‘old days’ our minds go directly to the image of a quill pen. Quill pens date back to the Middle Ages, as far back as the 6th century. They were a vast improvement over their predecessor, the reed or cane pen, used for writing on papyrus, whose origins can be traced back to 800 BC. Reeds are brittle, do not retain a sharp point, and require about eight inches of usable material for writing. Since quills are more durable, hold a...
