Author: Gianna Thomas
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Anatomy of a Book Cover Part I
When I first started writing, my former publisher encouraged me to work on a series. So, I started writing what would become The Darcy and Elizabeth Series that consisted of the following: The Women of Longbourn Attending a Ball Darcy and Bingley Darcy Chooses Part 1 Darcy Chooses Part 2 Elizabeth’s Choice The first three…
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Does Chatsworth Make an Exemplary Pemberley for Fitzwilliam Darcy?
When I first decided to do a post on Chatsworth, the home of the Dukes of Devonshire, I didn’t realize that Wikipedia had a very large amount of information concerning the ducal home. As you can see by the picture for this post, Chatsworth and the land surrounding that has belonged for 477 years to…
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The Unsnarling of EBBD
In one of my recent comments I mentioned how Elizabeth Bennet’s Bad Days was a little harder to write than any of my other books because there were so many different directions I could take the plot. Well, as it turned out, that particular attribute caused some issues for me. As a result, the publishing…
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To Sell My Books?
To advertise or not is the question. Since I haven’t written a P&P variation in four years until recently (EBBD), I have been thinking more about advertising. That is something I really haven’t done a lot of in the past. In fact, it wasn’t really necessary because I did rather well just through a number…
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What Makes a Book a Novel?
When writing a book, an author usually takes into account what length they are considering. Why? Well, there can be several reasons why. Knowing what length one is shooting for gives an author a goal as far as plot. The author also takes into consideration readers because some like a short, quick read because they…
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To Be An Editor
Most of what I ran across as I gathered information for this topic was in regard to final content of a text prior to publishing such as a book, newspaper or magazine. Editors typically do the following: Read content and correct spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors. In other words, they look for and correct mistakes. Rewrite…
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Song of Pemberley
In 2021 I started a novel called ‘Song of Pemberley’ but never finished it. Between selling my house in Texas, packing up everything and moving to Illinois, a number of things fell to the wayside until lately. Now, I’m working on playing catchup, and you know how much fun that is. However, since I am…
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The Wit of Jane Austen Revisited
Letters to Cassandra This was a post that I wrote four years ago. But I just had to go back to it. It’s my laugh for the day. Jane Austen had a biting wit that I just love, and her letters to her sister usually had at least two or more samples of it. Enjoy!…
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Foreshadow of Things to Come
Well, I am done with Elizabeth Bennet’s Bad Days Okay, so I am almost done with corrections from Kay Springteen’s edit. The book should publish by next week, and I feel that this one is the best variation I’ve written so far. Hopefully, the public will agree. At any rate, although I’ve given you all…
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What Genre Should Be the Home for Pride and Prejudice Variations?
In doing research for this article, I found information on Regency Romance and Regency Historical Romance, and the difference between the two is rather interesting. Regency Romances are actually a subgenre of Romance novels and are set in or near the British Regency (1811-1820) at the end of which time the Prince of Wales (Prinny)…