Category: Book Launch
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Hearts Unspoken & What Opportunities Await
I’m thrilled to announce that my newest Pride and Prejudice variation, Hearts Unspoken, is now available wherever eBooks are sold. Book Premise: When Miss Elizabeth Bennet accepts a position as the paid companion of the mistress of Pemberley, would she have chosen differently had she known what lay ahead? Mr. Darcy, an honorable man, who…
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An Interrupted Proposal Cover Reveal
Wow! It has been a long time coming, and you have been soooo patient! First, I am really excited to get this book out in print. There have been a few challenges as my life erupted in the past couple months, which has caused some delays, but we are finally coming down to the wire!…
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Confessions of a Wide Author
Being a wide author means I make my eBooks available worldwide to all customers on all eBook platforms. In addition, I sell eBooks and audiobooks directly to readers and listeners from my own store. That also means that publishing my stories in Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited (KU) program is rarely a choice for me because that…
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All the World’s A Stage – Sense and Sensibility, the theatre, and a new novel
I am most fortunate to live within an easy drive of one of North America’s best summer theatre festivals, the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. We are great theatre fans in this family, and make a point of going to several performances each summer. Sometimes we spend the night, other times we drive there…
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Ranking the Most Emotionally Clueless Austen Men
(A lighthearted list — Mr. Collins is obvious, but not alone) They say the wrong thing. They entirely miss the point. Sometimes they launch into a long, confident speech, while everyone else wonders if there’s a polite way to make it stop. Many of these moments belong to the Austen men who are not villains.…
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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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How NOT to run an audiobook crowdfunding campaign
Sooooooo, this was going to be about my Kickstarter attempt. But – before you buzz off, possibly permanently – relax. It won’t be!!! No appeal will be made to your wallets. You might even learn something from all my mistakes!!! Sooooooo, I got the idea for a Kickstarter this time last year, while attending the…
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Once Upon a Time
It’s always such fun thinking up new What-Ifs for Jane Austen’s fabulous characters. For almost every plot point in Austen’s amazing novel Pride and Prejudice, there’s an option for a different direction; for every character, the possibility of a different choice. We have role reversals, Elizabeth as an heiress, Darcy as a werewolf, bad Jane,…
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Christmas’s Place: Family and Home
Bear with me as I rifle through my life’s album. By my count, I have used a half-dozen seasonal events to move various books closer to their conclusions. I am convinced my frequent turning to Christmas and Twelfth Night rise from inner truths that inform my stories. This was not unexpected, I suppose. I am…