Category: historical romance
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Passionate Pursuits and Memorable Milestones
Each creator’s path to success is uniquely their own, particularly when it comes to the time it takes to reach one’s goals. My main objective for early 2024 was to hit the 2,000 subscriber mark on my YouTube channel, and I’m thrilled to announce that I achieved this on April 20, 2024! Over the course…
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Arriving May 10! Have You Ordered Your Copy? “The Colonel’s Ungovernable Governess”
The Colonel’s Ungovernable Governess is on PreOrder, with a Mother’s Day (in the U.S.) weekend release. The Colonel’s Ungovernable Governess Rather than be forced to marry a man not of her choice, Miss Jocelyn Romfield runs away. She believes spending her life as a governess would be superior to a loveless marriage. An arrangement has…
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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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The Centrality of Self-Knowledge in Austen, a Guest Post from Pamela Aidan
The importance of self-knowledge or self-discovery in Jane Austen’s novels is not likely to be contested as it is a feature, perhaps THE feature that appears in all of them to one degree or another. My personal favorite novel, Pride and Prejudice, has as its hinge the incident of Darcy’s ill-fated proposal at Rosings which…
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After the Park
Hello again, and welcome back for another excerpt of “An Interrupted Proposal.” Thank you all for putting up with me doing these excerpts while I work on finishing my degree. I hope you are enjoying the story. For those of you just joining or wanting to reread the prior posts, here are the links: What…
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Excerpt from Storm-Smith WIP
Hello friends! It is spring and there is always so much to get done this time of year. Right now, I’m travelling with my family doing some conferences for our small business while school is out on break, so instead of my normal ranting about on this blog, I’m going to change gears a bit…
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‘Elizabeth’s Choice’ Excerpt and Sale
I felt it was time that I offered an excerpt of Elizabeth’s Choice and a price of only $.99 to my readers. I will admit that this particular book involved more research than any other I’ve written to date. And I enjoyed it immensely. What I found out about Ireland and what traveling there could…
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Why bother with my ‘Darcy’?
Why bother with my Darcy? Why not just re-read – for surely everyone here will certainly have read it! – Pride and Prejudice, itself? I was asked this question by a sceptical fellow tennis-mad friend. “After all,” she added, “You’ve admitted that the plot is mostly the same.” FIRST ANSWER: Because Austen never married. In…
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A Walk in the Park
Happy (almost) Spring! I’m not sure how the temperatures are where you live, but here in Virginia at least one day a week it feels like spring and today is one of those days. Some of the crocuses are up, as are the mini daffodils, and the regular daffodils and tulips are close behind. I…
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A Gentleman’s Due
Favorite Daughter as an audiobook has indeed breathed […]