Category: book excerpt
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Pride and Prejudice and Immigration – An excerpt from a modernization
Happy Thursday-before-Thanksgiving everyone! Having just passed the election, I thought I would highlight a slightly older book of mine that is oddly apropos of the moment. I wrote it in 2017-18, but it is set during President Trump’s first run for office. I didn’t expect it to ever be as relevant as it was at…
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A Night at the Theatre
Hello, hello, hello! I hope everyone had a beautiful weekend and I am so pleased to help you start your week. This weekend was a whirlwind for me as I had three overlapping events (one that I just had to skip completely in order to make it through the others) and homework that was due…
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And So It Begins…
Happy November, dear readers. And a very Happy Birthday to Second Son! Yes, readers, that is correct: my first book baby is seven years old today. <Sigh> It seems only yesterday that I finally found the ultimate outlet for all my nerdish ways; for, eleven years ago next week, I sat down (Wow! I could…
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Using Accents and Vernacular
An author friend, Linda Thompson, asked if readers preferred reading a transliteration of accented speech (“Oi ‘ere. C’mon. Now’t see ‘ere.”) or a modified use of some easily understood phrases to indicate that the speaker might have an accent (“Oui, M’sieur. It is true what you say.”). I have gone both directions…but if the character…
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My Newest Book
Darcy and his cousin, Colonel Fitzwilliam, are searching for George Wickham, after the man brought such pain to Georgiana Darcy, they had no idea the chaos that Wickham had left in his wake.
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A Walk to Meryton
Hello, Delightful Readers! It has been a whirlwind month or two and I love these calmer moments when I can share a bit of my WIP with you. I hope you are enjoying this story and hope to have publishing information for you in the coming months. In the meanwhile, for those of you just…
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Wandering through Wales
As I write this, I’m sitting in an old pub in Reading, England, on my way home after a fabulous visit to Wales. The primary purpose of this trip was to drop my daughter off at university there, but I had other plans as well. First, I wanted to visit friends in the UK. Some…
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Mrs. Bennet’s Reaction
Has it been a month already? I hope everyone is doing well, the children are back in school, and life is returning to a more settled (or at least more consistent) schedule. Our daughter is in her last year of university and hoping to take a position performing on cruise ships to pay off student…
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Stops and Starts, Endings and Beginnings
Greetings, Dear Readers! I have such happy news. I am excited to announce that my latest book, Once He Made a Beginning, is set to release soon! You may have heard me mention it a time or two in the past. The story was my 2022 National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) project. While it has…
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A Look Back And a Giveaway!
Some of you know that about a month ago, we lost our little dog, Echo, to diabetes. She was the inspiration for a major character in one of my novels, An Unexpected Turn of Events. In her honor, I hope you will let me update and re-post parts of a blog entry from 2017. Plus…