Category: book excerpt
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My newest book
Forgive me for being late to post today. Have been dealing with health issues. This is the first 2 chapters of my next book, Her Memories Forged In Fire. Chapter 1 “Ah, Mr Darcy, it is a pleasure to see you.” Mr Edward Gardiner stated as the master of Pemberley, one of the largest…
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The Soldier and the Author
Last month, I mentioned that I’ve started into serious edits for a novel I began a while ago. The working title is The Soldier’s Tale, and this is Colonel Fitzwilliam’s story. As do so many Austen-inspired authors, I love the colonel. Jane Austen gives us such a small glimpse of him; he is little more…
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Freud and Writing Austenesque Fiction
Consider the Canon. Jane Austen is frequently thin on details and does not offer much data about the Regency’s social environment. She rarely addresses the great questions of the day, except for suggesting that Tom Bertram’s time in the West Indies left him scarred and damaged. The same holds for settings. She does not expend…
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Sailing with Style and Salt Pork: A Look at Regency Packet Ships
In a Jane Austen novel, sea travel usually happens offstage. A letter arrives, Tom Bertram returns, Captain Wentworth is promoted to captain—that sort of thing. But if you lived in Austen’s world and needed to get to the Continent (or the West Indies, or the Cape of Good Hope), you would likely have found yourself…
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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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Dear Grandmamma
Hello! I am taking a break from editing to give you an update and share a little bit I wrote in order to fill a hole. By the time you read this, An Interrupted Proposal should be on its way to the editor. (Next month, I’ll share the cover.) Before it can go, I have…
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The Prince Regent’s Gift
Jane Austen, born barely three weeks before the publication of Common Sense, was most assuredly a child of the Enlightenment. &&&& Thomas Paine &&&& George Augustus Frederick, eldest child and heir to George III, was also a child of the Enlightenment. He was born in 1762, at a time when his tutors would have been…
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Promises, Preferences, and Practicalities (an Excerpt & a Giveaway)
New Release Excerpt and a Giveaway!
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A Rose by Any Other Name: Mr Collins’ Garden
“In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love” – Alfred Lord Tennyson It’s the middle of May. The sky is blue, the birds are singing, and rather than love, my fancy is lightly turning to thoughts of gardening. I have no particular talent for such an endeavour, and my vast…
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Hitting the Books: taking note
I have a problem. I possess what might be called a “flypaper mind.” Stuff goes in and then gets stuck. My memory is in no way eidetic, but rather is loosely associative…meaning I tend to cascade information in an inverse pyramid. You hit me with a general topic—or even something specific—and then I will barf…