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Essential Oil Gift Goodness

Everyone who knows me knows how much I love essential oils. Just got these early dharmaceuticals essential oil gifts for the holidays and couldn’t help but open them and start spritzing and diffusing. Love it!  

The Lift-Me-Up spritz put me in the perfect frame of mind to get going on today’s writing….ttyl :)) 

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The Cure for Writer’s Block

If any of my fellow storytellers deal with writer’s block from time to time, here’s some fun help. Fun help? That’s right.  See you in the playground. 

Photo by Marion Michele on Unsplash

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How deep is your Austen love? Jane Austen fans discuss.

Ever wondered what the difference is between having read Jane Austen and being a full-on Janeite? Or where you are in the Jane Austen fan continuum? You might find your answer in this fun conversation. It’s all part of Austen in August, and if you’ve missed any of it; don’t worry, you can catch up at The Book Rat and join the party. There are lots of posts and still some giveaways going on.
Want to hear more about what Jane Austen fans have to say about their obsession with their favorite aut...

Self-Control and Discipline by Mary Brunton

[reprinted here with the kind permission of The Jane Austen Centre, celebrating Bath’s most famous resident and reporting the latest Austen-related news. ]

If Mary Brunton’s name rings any bells, you are most likely thinking of this quote from Jane Austen:

I am looking over Self Control again, & my opinion is confirmed of its’ being an excellently-meant, elegantly-written Work, without anything of Nature or Probability in it. I declare I do not know whether Laura’s passage down the American R...

Austen Superpowers: Self-Awareness + True Love

Can self-importance, meddling, and delusion be considered superpowers?

Hardly. And yet, the self-congratulating and clueless titular heroine of Jane Austen’s Emma rises above being the character that Austen thought that no one but herself would like. In the course of the story, Emma has a series of aha! moments about herself. More important, she acts on that self-awareness. 

via GIPHY Alicia Silverstone in Clueless, a brilliant adaptation of Emma.

In a Jane Austen novel, a lady can only earn...

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The Beefsteak Club: male dining clubs in the 18th & 19th centuries

[by Laura Boyle and reprinted here with the kind permission of The Jane Austen Centre, celebrating Bath’s most famous resident and reporting the latest Austen-related news. ]

The Beefsteak Club is the name or nickname of several 18th and 19th-century male dining clubs that celebrated the beefsteak as a symbol of patriotic and often Whig  (liberal) concepts of liberty and prosperity. The location of the current Beefsteak Club.

The first beefsteak club was founded about 1705 in London by the ac...

Austen Superpowers: Finding Yours With Anne Elliot

Anne Elliot: A quiet force to be reckoned with.

Lizzy Bennet may be the one with all the flash and sparkle, but one should never underestimate one of Austen’s more reserved heroines, Anne Elliot of Persuasion.

Ciaran Hinds as Captain Wentworth and Amanda Root as Anne Elliot in “Persuasion,” directed by Roger Michell

At first glance, Anne may not seem to fit the typical ideal of a cape-wearing, save-the-day superhero, but let’s take a closer look at Miss Anne:

Austen Superpower 1: Grace under...

Essential Oils for Writing and Living: “expression” by dharmaceuticals

Essential oils from dharmaceuticals are a big part of my life. I wear them, diffuse them, spray them, and layer them. I’m basically a walking diffuser. So much so that total strangers often ask what I have on that smells so good. So when dharmaceuticals asked if I’d like to become an affiliate, I said YES. Thus there are affiliate links in this post. That means if you click through and decide to make a purchase, I’ll earn a commission, at no additional cost to you. Tidy. (As Nessa of Gavin an...

For Writers

Are you a writer, too? If so, you may find my posts on the writing life helpful.

Have you ever thought about finding an editor to help you through the process? I can relate. I wouldn’t be where I am without the guidance and encouragement of my own editor/writing coach.

Which is why I am passionate about the other thing I do besides writing novels, which is independent editing for authors.  Here’s some of the stuff I can do:

manuscript critiques manuscript editing assessing, editing, and/o...