Category: Book Launch
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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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Mary, Alexander, and a New Anthology
This is a busy, busy month for me, with travels, big changes, and lots and lots of book news. In a few days I’m heading off to the UK for the rest of September. I’ll be visiting old friends and meeting some of my wonderful co-authors, who until now have just been lovely people chatting…
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Why Your Friends Hate Your Books . . .
I recently received an email from an old friend who’s also a novelist, though in a very different genre. “Hi Alice, I’m feeling low and in need of advice. Maybe everybody secretly dislikes me, but my friends and family, neighbours and acquaintances generally just don’t care about my books. They’ve sold great, and one was…
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Celebrating “A Fortuitous Wager: A Pride and Prejudice Vagary” Release with a Giveaway
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”—Pride and Prejudice, Chapter VI After another disappointing Season fending off matchmaking mamas and grasping debutantes, Fitzwilliam Darcy has given up hope of finding a wife. His business partner, Edward Gardiner, suggests a sojourn into Hertfordshire to escape the machinations of Town—and meddlesome aunts who take every…
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Pride and Perjury ~ Releasing in Two Days!!!! + a Giveaway!!!
An introduction to my Pride and Perjury . . . Pride and Perjury, my short story collection, ambushed me while I was planning, and even plotting, my fourth novel in the series, and my seventh altogether. It was the holes in Pride and Prejudice that bothered me. The omissions – my own, in Darcy, as…
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Austen’s characters: Love them – or just love to hate them????
When the natives get bored on the Facebook Jane Austen Fan Club – and they seem to get bored perilously easily – some member almost always pipes with “Poll!!! Who’s the worst mother/villain/sister/adulterer/whatever in Austen’s novels?” Polls are conducted… opinions shared… and sometimes some seriously vicious judgement calls get handed down. According to some, Mrs…
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Misfortunes, Misunderstandings, Mistakes, and Merriment
Misfortunes, misunderstandings, and mistakes aren’t just the pitfalls of our favorite characters’ lives; they are the very elements that make their journeys toward merriment so compelling. Expect to find all these elements and more inside the pages of my multi-volume collection, For More Reasons than One. In the spirit of Throwback Thursday, I am sharing…
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It’s Finally Here!
My second book – Cause to Repine – is finally launching! So, I owe you all an explanation. Nearly a year ago, I sent out the first set of ARCs for my second book, Cause to Repine. It was downloaded by more than 200 separate people, and read/reviewed on Goodreads. I thought I was done…
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A Stroll Down Memory Lane, a Guest Post from Laura Hile
Today I have the pleasure to fill in for my friend, Barbara Cornthwaite. Barbara and I go way back, back to a time when online fiction forums—and the Internet—were young. This was before Facebook and Instagram and good gracious, even before Myspace. It was indeed a heady time. Suddenly, thanks to the worldwide web, people…