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November 2, 2016
Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt Stop # 10
Welcome to the Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt! If you’ve just discovered the hunt, be sure to start at Stop #1, and collect the clues through all 31 stops, in order, so you can enter to win one of our top 3 grand prizes!
The hunt BEGINS with Stop #1 at Lisa Bergren’s site.
Hunt through our loop using Chrome or Firefox as your browser (not Explorer).
There is NO RUSH to complete the hunt—you have all weekend (until Sunday, 11/6)! So take your time, reading the unique posts along the way; our hope is that you discover new authors/new books.
Submit your entry for the grand prizes by collecting the clue on each author’s scavenger hunt post and submitting your answer in the Rafflecopter form at Stop #31. Many authors are offering additional prizes along the way!
Here’s who it works… follow all the links to each author’s site and look for the clue in red. Once you’ve collected them all and compiled a complete sentence, hop back to Stop #1 and fill in the answer.
Good Luck!
Now welcome my friend and fab author Louise Gouge!
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Cats And Their Authors
By Louise M. Gouge
I love cats. Period. Always have. Always will.
When I became a writer and began to meet other writers, I wasn’t at all surprised to learn many of them also love feline critters.
Cats and writers just seem to go together. Three famous writers of the past, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, and Ernest Hemingway, have written about these furry friends in poetry and prose.
Who can forget that Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats was the inspiration for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s great musical, Cats? Lewis said, “I have a great respect for cats–they are very shrewd people.” Someone gave Ernest Hemingway a six-toed cat, and its descendants still live in and around the author’s Key West home.
Louise’s cat Tigger reading her book!
Fellow author Laurie Alice Eakes says, “I find my cats to be great stress relievers. Usually when I am working, I have one or both of them sprawled across my desk or my feet. When I pause to think, stroking their soft fur and listening to the resultant rumble of their purrs helps my brain relax and be creative…until they decide to help the writing by leaping with all four paws onto the keyboard.
More than one manuscript has gone off to my editor with a few odd characters imbedded in the manuscript, where I missed them in the final read-through.
Debbie Lynne Costello relates that her daughter’s cat sometimes walks on her keyboard, even moving the author out of the way. “I think she wants to be a writer when she grows up.”
Meet Puff! She’s adding his own words to Louise’s book.
I can relate to that. We have three cats, and each one has tried to enhance my stories by parking on or near my keyboard. Tigger lies on my desk and critiques my manuscript. Puff insists on adding her ideas to my stories.
MaryLu Tyndall agrees. “More than once, my cats have managed to either erase my writing or add their own special gibberish. And you know that intense, emotional scene I’m in the middle of writing? Try staying in the zone when a giant cat face appears in my vision, covering up my entire screen. Hard to get angry, however, when he’s purring and starts licking my nose.”
For a fascinating look at other authors of the past who were cat lovers, visit: http://mentalfloss.com/article/49302/11-writers-who-really-loved-cats.
So how about you? Do you have a cat? Does he/she inspire you? In what way?
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Louise Gouge…
Award-winning Florida author Louise M. Gouge writes historical fiction for Harlequin’s Love Inspired Historical Romances. A f
ormer college professor of English and humanities, she enjoys visiting historical sites and museums. Learn more at https://www.facebook.com/AuthorLouiseMGouge/, Twitter: @Louisemgouge
Her book Cowgirl Under The Mistletoe can be found here:
Barnes and Noble
CBD.com
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Your scavenger hunt word is Democrat,
Hop over to Louise’s site for Stop #11 to continue the hunt. Good luck everyone!
The post Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt Stop # 10 appeared first on Rachel Hauck.
Cats And Their Authors
By Louise M. Gouge
I love cats. Period. Always have. Always will.
When I became a writer and began to meet other writers, I wasn’t at all surprised to learn many of them also love feline critters.
Cats and writers just seem to go together. Three famous writers of the past, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, and Ernest Hemingway, have written about these furry friends in poetry and prose.
Who can forget that Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats was the inspiration for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s great musical, Cats? Lewis said, “I have a great respect for cats–they are very shrewd people.” Someone gave Ernest Hemingway a six-toed cat, and its descendants still live in and around the author’s Key West home.
Fellow author Laurie Alice Eakes says, “I find my cats to be great stress relievers. Usually when I am working, I have one or both of them sprawled across my desk or my feet. When I pause to think, stroking their soft fur and listening to the resultant rumble of their purrs helps my brain relax and be creative…until they decide to help the writing by leaping with all four paws onto the keyboard.
More than one manuscript has gone off to my editor with a few odd characters imbedded in the manuscript, where I missed them in the final read-through.
Debbie Lynne Costello relates that her daughter’s cat sometimes walks on her keyboard, even moving the author out of the way. “I think she wants to be a writer when she grows up.”
I can relate to that. We have three cats, and each one has tried to enhance my stories by parking on or near my keyboard. Tigger lies on my desk and critiques my manuscript. Puff insists on adding her ideas to my stories.
MaryLu Tyndall agrees. “More than once, my cats have managed to either erase my writing or add their own special gibberish. And you know that intense, emotional scene I’m in the middle of writing? Try staying in the zone when a giant cat face appears in my vision, covering up my entire screen. Hard to get angry, however, when he’s purring and starts licking my nose.”
For a fascinating look at other authors of the past who were cat lovers, visit: http://mentalfloss.com/article/49302/11-writers-who-really-loved-cats.
So how about you? Do you have a cat? Does he/she inspire you? In what way?
***
Louise Gouge…
Award-winning Florida author Louise M. Gouge writes historical fiction for Harlequin’s Love Inspired Historical Romances. A former college professor of English and humanities, she enjoys visiting historical sites and museums. Learn more at https://www.facebook.com/AuthorLouiseMGouge/, Twitter: @Louisemgouge
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Your scavenger hunt word is Democrat,
Hope over to Louise’s site to continue the hunt. Good luck everyone!
The post Cats And Their Authors appeared first on Rachel Hauck.
Cats And Their Authors
By Louise M. Gouge
I love cats. Period. Always have. Always will.
When I became a writer and began to meet other writers, I wasn’t at all surprised to learn many of them also love feline critters.
Cats and writers just seem to go together. Three famous writers of the past, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, and Ernest Hemingway, have written about these furry friends in poetry and prose.
Who can forget that Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats was the inspiration for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s great musical, Cats? Lewis said, “I have a great respect for cats–they are very shrewd people.” Someone gave Ernest Hemingway a six-toed cat, and its descendants still live in and around the author’s Key West home.
Fellow author Laurie Alice Eakes says, “I find my cats to be great stress relievers. Usually when I am working, I have one or both of them sprawled across my desk or my feet. When I pause to think, stroking their soft fur and listening to the resultant rumble of their purrs helps my brain relax and be creative…until they decide to help the writing by leaping with all four paws onto the keyboard.
More than one manuscript has gone off to my editor with a few odd characters imbedded in the manuscript, where I missed them in the final read-through.
Debbie Lynne Costello relates that her daughter’s cat sometimes walks on her keyboard, even moving the author out of the way. “I think she wants to be a writer when she grows up.”
I can relate to that. We have three cats, and each one has tried to enhance my stories by parking on or near my keyboard. Tigger lies on my desk and critiques my manuscript. Puff insists on adding her ideas to my stories.
MaryLu Tyndall agrees. “More than once, my cats have managed to either erase my writing or add their own special gibberish. And you know that intense, emotional scene I’m in the middle of writing? Try staying in the zone when a giant cat face appears in my vision, covering up my entire screen. Hard to get angry, however, when he’s purring and starts licking my nose.”
For a fascinating look at other authors of the past who were cat lovers, visit: http://mentalfloss.com/article/49302/11-writers-who-really-loved-cats.
So how about you? Do you have a cat? Does he/she inspire you? In what way?
***
Louise Gouge…
Award-winning Florida author Louise M. Gouge writes historical fiction for Harlequin’s Love Inspired Historical Romances. A former college professor of English and humanities, she enjoys visiting historical sites and museums. Learn more at https://www.facebook.com/AuthorLouiseMGouge/, Twitter: @Louisemgouge
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Your scavenger hunt word is Democrat,
Hope over to Louise’s site to continue the hunt. Good luck everyone!
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October 20, 2016
Let The Fun Begin! Fall Scavenger Hunt Is Coming Up
Stay tuned for more information!
The hunt will start here!
www.LisaBergren.com
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August 15, 2016
The Wedding Shop – The Story Behind The Story
The Wedding Shop Story.
It’s been forever since I posted a blog. I’ve been on one deadline or another, and when it comes to choosing words, I decided to stick them in a story rather than a blog. ;p
Since June of last year, I’ve written three books. I’ve learned to write fast, but three books in a year is an Olympic pace for me. Ha!
When my editor asked if I could write two books last fall, I said, “Diamonds come from pressure. Let’s go for it.”
The first of those “diamond” books is The Wedding Shop, which releases August 16th! The second is A Royal Christmas Wedding coming to you in October. And The Writing Desk coming next summer.
I love The Wedding Shop. It’s become one of my favorites, even though it had a bit of a rocky start.
A friend gave me the idea of writing about a shop. While I’d used a shop as a backdrop for The Wedding Dress, the 100-year-old gown was the story focus, not the shop.
I hoped I could be creative enough to pull off a “shop” story.
But what exactly was this story going to be about? My publishing team is thrilled with my slip-time novels — stories told in dual timelines — so I knew I had to have bothhistorical and contemporary protagonists.
I’m fascinated with the 1930s, so I decided to use that era for my historical heroine. But how was she connected, if at all, to my contemporary heroine?
I’d decided the contemporary heroine needed to be tough — the last kind of person to re-open a dilapidated wedding shop. So, I created a retired Air Force captain who was on the run from a romance gone bad.
When I start a book, I go through a series of exercises: first figuring out names and who is telling the story, followed by the Story Equation (SEQ), then a bunch of digging and reading, researching and dreaming.
I give myself two to four weeks for planning, depending on the deadline, then “tell myself the story.” It’s during this phase the characters start to come alive — at least a little bit …
I also have to create a history for the “device,” like the shop or the chapel or the dress. What is its history and how does it weave into the story?
As I began writing the history of the shop and detailing the story of the woman who founded it — in my cozy but fictional town of Heart’s Bend, Tennessee — an amazing story of unrequited love emerged.
1930s bride and groom
I was so fascinated by it I considered changing my story all together. Then I realized this love story didn’t belong to the old aunt who wasn’t even in the story other than backdrop. It belonged to Cora Scott, the 1930s heroine.
The story came to life.
What was the goal of the shop? Why use it for a setting? How did this shop impact my characters and the women of Heart’s Bend?
As I asked myself these questions, I had this sense of community. Family. A history of the wedding shop and how the Scott woman dressed young brides for a most important day.
Since part of the story would be set at the beginning of the Depression, I began to see a shop as a place of hope to women facing difficult times. Former brides might come back to reminisce of happier times, of their time at the shop.
The contemporary heroine, Haley Morgan, took some thinking and tweaking. Why would a former Air Force captain return to her hometown to reopen an old wedding shop? A place that was more legend than reality. Cora closed the shop years before Haley was born.
But to a woman who’d seen hard times in the desert of Afghanistan, and who’d harbored a childhood promise, opening the old shop made sense. Plus, she was a bit bruised from her own disastrous love affair.
Haley Morgan ;)
Both Cora and Haley saw themselves as the “bridesmaid.” Never the bride.
Out of my musings came two pretty stellar heroes: Birch Good and Cole Danner. Each with their own story to tell, they became the silver lining to each woman’s story.
Birch and Cora really popped off the page for me and the more I wrote about them, the more I wanted to be their friend.
Haley is a unifier and healer. Opening the shop unearths a family secret and brings healing to an awkward relationship in her life. She also pulls two of my other stories into hers: The Wedding Chapel and The Wedding Dress.
The Wedding Shop wrestles with timeless themes such as unwavering love, family secrets, misconceptions and misunderstandings, and the golden thread of love that makes life worth living.
Since all of my stories have a supernatural element — What is God up to in this story? — I had to step back and ask the Lord, “What’s on Your heart?” I love to use physical realities to show God’s unfailing help and constant presence. To show how He connects us in ways we can’t imagine.
As Haley endeavors to open the shop, she is unprepared, broke, and in over her head. But while man looks on the outward, God looks at the heart. (1 Samuel 16:7) He so graciously and so generously made up for her lack and provided of her.
Writing how the Lord met Haley and Cora encouraged my heart! I hope it will encourage yours.
Let me know what you think of Cora and Birch’s and Haley and Cole’s story. I’ll carry their journey with me for a long time to come. To see more pictures that inspired me along the writing journey, check out my Pinterest page.
Rachel
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The Wedding Shop – The Story
It’s been forever since I posted a blog. I’ve been on one deadline or another, and when it comes to choosing words, I decided to stick them in a story rather than a blog. ;p
Since June of last year, I’ve written three books. I’ve learned to write fast, but three books in a year is an Olympic pace for me. Ha!
When my editor asked if I could write two books last fall, I said, “Diamonds come from pressure. Let’s go for it.”
The first of those “diamond” books is The Wedding Shop, which releases August 16th! The second is A Royal Christmas Wedding coming to you in October. And The Writing Desk coming next summer.
I love The Wedding Shop. It’s become one of my favorites, even though it had a bit of a rocky start.
A friend gave me the idea of writing about a shop. While I’d used a shop as a backdrop for The Wedding Dress, the 100-year-old gown was the story focus, not the shop.
I hoped I could be creative enough to pull off a “shop” story.
But what exactly was this story going to be about? My publishing team is thrilled with my slip-time novels — stories told in dual timelines — so I knew I had to have bothhistorical and contemporary protagonists.
I’m fascinated with the 1930s, so I decided to use that era for my historical heroine. But how was she connected, if at all, to my contemporary heroine?
I’d decided the contemporary heroine needed to be tough — the last kind of person to re-open a dilapidated wedding shop. So, I created a retired Air Force captain who was on the run from a romance gone bad.
When I start a book, I go through a series of exercises: first figuring out names and who is telling the story, followed by the Story Equation (SEQ), then a bunch of digging and reading, researching and dreaming.
I give myself two to four weeks for planning, depending on the deadline, then “tell myself the story.” It’s during this phase the characters start to come alive — at least a little bit …
I also have to create a history for the “device,” like the shop or the chapel or the dress. What is its history and how does it weave into the story?
As I began writing the history of the shop and detailing the story of the woman who founded it — in my cozy but fictional town of Heart’s Bend, Tennessee — an amazing story of unrequited love emerged.
1930s bride and groom
I was so fascinated by it I considered changing my story all together. Then I realized this love story didn’t belong to the old aunt who wasn’t even in the story other than backdrop. It belonged to Cora Scott, the 1930s heroine.
The story came to life.
What was the goal of the shop? Why use it for a setting? How did this shop impact my characters and the women of Heart’s Bend?
As I asked myself these questions, I had this sense of community. Family. A history of the wedding shop and how the Scott woman dressed young brides for a most important day.
Since part of the story would be set at the beginning of the Depression, I began to see a shop as a place of hope to women facing difficult times. Former brides might come back to reminisce of happier times, of their time at the shop.
The contemporary heroine, Haley Morgan, took some thinking and tweaking. Why would a former Air Force captain return to her hometown to reopen an old wedding shop? A place that was more legend than reality. Cora closed the shop years before Haley was born.
But to a woman who’d seen hard times in the desert of Afghanistan, and who’d harbored a childhood promise, opening the old shop made sense. Plus, she was a bit bruised from her own disastrous love affair.
Haley Morgan ;)
Both Cora and Haley saw themselves as the “bridesmaid.” Never the bride.
Out of my musings came two pretty stellar heroes: Birch Good and Cole Danner. Each with their own story to tell, they became the silver lining to each woman’s story.
Birch and Cora really popped off the page for me and the more I wrote about them, the more I wanted to be their friend.
Haley is a unifier and healer. Opening the shop unearths a family secret and brings healing to an awkward relationship in her life. She also pulls two of my other stories into hers: The Wedding Chapel and The Wedding Dress.
The Wedding Shop wrestles with timeless themes such as unwavering love, family secrets, misconceptions and misunderstandings, and the golden thread of love that makes life worth living.
Since all of my stories have a supernatural element — What is God up to in this story? — I had to step back and ask the Lord, “What’s on Your heart?” I love to use physical realities to show God’s unfailing help and constant presence. To show how He connects us in ways we can’t imagine.
As Haley endeavors to open the shop, she is unprepared, broke, and in over her head. But while man looks on the outward, God looks at the heart. (1 Samuel 16:7) He so graciously and so generously made up for her lack and provided of her.
Writing how the Lord met Haley and Cora encouraged my heart! I hope it will encourage yours.
Let me know what you think of Cora and Birch’s and Haley and Cole’s story. I’ll carry their journey with me for a long time to come. To see more pictures that inspired me along the writing journey, check out my Pinterest page.
Rachel
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March 2, 2016
Prayer Is The Only Way Up
Can this be me in the spirit?
Sometimes people ask if I’d ever write a non fiction book. After all, I did major in journalism at the great Ohio State.
But I loved writing features more than the hard news. I prefer to make things up rather than writing “just the facts.”
When I was in journalism school, the facts were very important. I understand truth not critical to journalism today but in the ’80s, it was.
A few years ago I thought about writing on menopause. “Menopause Sucks But You Too Can Have A Happy Life.”
Yet, after the fact, I figure, “Ah, who cares? Lots of other women are writing about menopause.” (If you’re interested, I did blog about it on this very site!)
Non fiction to me is about expertise. About teaching and imparting. I like to think I spill my little nugget of wisdom cleverly into my stories.
So why reinvent the wheel? There are so many good teachers and preachers out there. So many good people talking about Godly things.
Why does my voice need to join them? The truth is I’d be more of an echo than a voice. “Yea, what he said.” “I agree with her!”
A few months ago I found myself in this conversation again—What about non-fiction?—and it hit me, “I’d like to write a memoir.”
About what? Back to the menopause jungle?
I’d like to write something kitschy like Nora Ephron’s “I Feel Bad About My Neck.” But I’m not sure I’m liberated enough. I’m not worldly enough.
Don’t mistake me. I’m transparent enough. I’ll tell you almost, almost anything, but it’s that wise? Just because I want to write about it doesn’t make it meaningful or valuable or, here’s the kicker, eternal.
As a Christ follower, I’m always aware of my action, words, time-spent. “Is it lasting?”
I’m pretty sure the time I spent binge watching “fill in the blank” television show is not eternal. But yea, I get it, God allows us to have fun. He’s a fun God. He allows us down time. I’m just one of those who questions everything.
If I write a memoir, I don’t want it to be rude or sarcastic. We have enough of that in the world. At present, Donald Trump is running for president. Nuff said.
If I write a memoir, I would like it to actually help people. Inspire them. I read Rosario Butterfield’s memoir last summer and was really impacted by her testimony.
As I mulled over this, I kept coming back to the topic of prayer.
I’m passionate about it. I’m drawn to it. I’m IMPERFECT in it. But everything in my life journey points back to prayer.
As a kid, I’d walk the woods by grandmother’s house talking to God. Singing. Making up stories and people in my head.
From the git-go, prayer has been in my DNA. There’s just not a lot of kitschiness in that, is there?
Yet I’m not sure where I’d be in life without it.
So this is my experiment on a memoir. I’ll blog about it first. You know, in those spare moments between deadlines.
It’s just such a privilege to pray. To partner with God for His kingdom to come on earth as it is in heaven.
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February 11, 2016
English Romance Traditions
Welcome to England! Since I’ve been writing sudo British/English royal novels, I thought I’d take a look at English romance traditions.
I turned to the English women at Women’s Alive Book Club for some help. Here’s what they said…
“We don’t feed each other cake at the reception. But Valentines! At school we could order red carnations to be sent with anonymous cards (written out by volunteers so the handwriting wouldn’t be guessed). Pretty, popular people got dozens. I remember one girl needing a bucket to carry hers around! Our housemistress used to send one to every girl in the house in case anyone was left out, with the result that if you only got one, you knew it was the pity flower and didn’t count.” — Amy Robinson
“Speeches at the wedding reception – how many are there in the States? In the UK it’s a huge thing, which I didn’t quite realize the extent of until I got married and my husband and his best men took over with them!” — Amy Pye
“It’s not part of the traditional ceremony to have the first kiss as a married couple in the church. It’s not part of the wedding service. You have to ask the priest to say, “You may kiss the bride,” if you want it. It’s regarded it as a “Hollywood invention.” We had our first kiss as we drove away in the wedding car.” — Amy Robinson
“Brides get ready at home. I remember all the fuss about Lady Diana’s dress getting crumpled in the carriage. I always thought it looked gorgeous anyway!
I do like the emotional impact of the girl walking out of the bedroom where she was a child, dressed in white ready to leave that family and home, and cleave to her new husband and home. Cinematically it works better for me to get ready at home than to make a mad flurry to get out of the house and to the church in time to get ready, still in your PJs, trying to remember everything you might possibly need, then dressing in some anonymous room designed for something else entirely… But I’m aware that I’m probably over-romanticising the former!” — Jennie Pollock
“Then there’s valentine’s day. In the States it seems to be the done thing for kids to give a valentine’s card to every child in their class – you can buy them in boxes. That just doesn’t happen in the UK at all. We do that for Christmas. But Valentine’s day is much more about giving a card secretly to your ‘one true love’ — which of course little kids do too. It’s definitely about saying ‘be mine’, not just generally ‘I love you.'” — Jennie Pollock
“With UK weddings, it’s the bride who leads the wedding procession up the aisle, usually arm in arm with her father, with the bridesmaids following.” — Phillippa Linton
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William and Kate followed English cake traditions for their wedding. Excerpt from the National Post.
William and Kate’s Wedding Cake.
The first cake, a three tiered fruit cake is traditional to English weddings; the top tier is known as “the christening cake,” which the couple will likely save in a tin to eat at the baptism of their first child.The second cake will be the “groom’s cake,” a less formal cake, a tradition that originated in the Tudor period but isn’t often bothered with today.
Prince William has chosen a chocolate rich biscuit cake for his grooms cake. A simple unbaked cake of crushed McVities rich tea biscuits and dark chocolate. “It was once English custom for this [the groom’s cake] to be a fruitcake as well.” Buckingham palace has sent a special “secret” recipe to McVities that William used to enjoy at tea time as a child.
Another tradition? “Legend has it that if single females take a slice of the cake home and sleep with it under their pillow they will dream of their groom-to-be,” says the Telegraph of the grooms cake.
A fruit cake is served at the wedding reception (or the “wedding breakfast”) along with the groom’s cake.
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Tidbits about the white wedding gown from Bridal Lore and Customs.
The white wedding dress was made popular by Anne of Brittany in 1499. Prior to that time and, in general, until the 1900s, a woman usually simply wore the best dress she had in her wardrobe.
In ancient times, the traditional color of bridal gowns would be red or some other bright color. However, green was avoided in the choice of a bridal gown since it was considered unlucky. It was also was considered that a woman who wore green on her wedding day was one of loose morals…her dress would be grass-stained from rolling around in the fields.
The choice of a white wedding gown increased in popularity when this color was chosen by Queen Victoria for her own ceremonies and thus, broke the tradition of royals marrying in silver. A common misconception, however, is that the white wedding dress is indicative of the purity of the bride-to-be. White has never truly been accorded as a symbol of chastity, being regarded more as a symbol of joy. (See “Wearing White” for additional information.)
Traditionally, the bride should never make her own dress and the final stitch should not be completed until she is departing for the church. In addition, it is considered unlucky for the bride to try on the entire outfit prior to the day (somewhat akin to the bride “counting her chickens”).
For the same reason, a bride should never practice signing her new name until it is legally hers. In times gone by, wedding linen was always marked with the bride’s maiden rather than married initials. In early Saxon times and even through the Eighteenth Century, the poorer bride attended her wedding dressed in a plain white robe. By nature of a public statement, this indicated that she brought nothing with her to the marriage and, therefore, her husband would not be responsible for her debts.
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Hope you had fun with these English and ancient traditions. Thanks for stopping by. Do you have a tradition you’d like to share? Post below.
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Now on to information about the Romance Around the World blog hop and giveaway….
You can enter the main giveaway for a Kindle Fire, chocolate, bubble bath, Starbucks gift card, $75 pajama gram, and eight novels right here on this page via the entry box below. In order to enter, you’ll simply need to agree to receive occasional e-newsletters from the participating authors.
We’re also offering a side giveaway, open only to those of you who visit all four Romance Around the World blog posts throughout the week. You’ll find the links to the blog posts below. At each stop, you’ll be able to collect a few secret words. By the end of the week, you’ll have accumulated a secret sentence that will qualify you to enter to win a $25 Amazon gift card, a literary mug, and a ‘Reading is my Adventure’ throw blanket at Rachel’s blog on February 14th. So be sure to visit the following writers on the following days to read about romance around the world!
On February 8th, Dani Pettrey chatted about romance in Ireland here.
On February 10th, Susan May Warren blogged about romance in Russia here.
On February 12th, Becky Wade is blogging about romance in France here.
On February 14th, Rachel Hauck will chat about romance in England here.
My secret words are: “But never doubt I love.” -from Hamlet by Shakespeare
Best of luck, everyone, and happy Valentine’s Day!
a Rafflecopter giveaway
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February 8, 2016
Romance Around the World! Blog Hop Stop #4
You can enter the main giveaway for a Kindle Fire, chocolate, bubble bath, Starbucks gift card, $75 pajama gram, and eight novels right here on this page via the entry box below. In order to enter, you’ll simply need to agree to receive occasional e-newsletters from the participating authors.
We’re also offering a side giveaway, open only to those of you who visit all four Romance Around the World blog posts throughout the week. You’ll find the links to the blog posts below. At each stop, you’ll be able to collect a few secret words. By the end of the week, you’ll have accumulated a secret sentence that will qualify you to enter to win a $25 Amazon gift card, a literary mug, and a ‘Reading is my Adventure’ throw blanket at Rachel’s blog on February 14th. So be sure to visit the following writers on the following days to read about romance around the world!
On February 8th, Dani Pettrey will chat about romance in Ireland at: http://www.danipettrey.com/monday-cuppa-28-and-valentines-giveaway/
On February 10th, Susan May Warren will chat about romance in Russia at: http://www.susanmaywarren.com/2016/02/06/from-russia-with-love-2/
On February 12th, Becky Wade will chat about romance in France at: http://inspiredbylifeandfiction.com/romance-around-the-world/
On February 14th, Rachel Hauck will chat about romance in England at: http://www.rachelhauck.com/blog/
Best of luck, everyone, and happy Valentine’s Day!
Come back on the 14th for MY secret word clue!
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February 7, 2016
Fabulous 12 Author Valentine’s Day Giveaway
Entering is simple. All you must do is subscribe (new or existing) to the mailing lists of the participating authors. That’s 12 subscriptions in all. It won’t cost you anything but a little of your time to make sure you are on all 12 lists and then say so in the entry form as requested. Most of the subscriptions require a double opt-in, meaning you will get an email link that you must click on to confirm. Failure to do this will void your entry.
The Rules: All entry options are mandatory. Open to readers with USA mailing addresses only. No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited by law.
The giveaway will remain open until 11:59 pm on Saturday, February 13. We will attempt to notify the winner on February 14, but that could be delayed as we confirm subscription to all 12 lists.
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