Category: Regency romance
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An Excerpt from A Fortuitous Wager: A Pride and Prejudice Vagary
I am excited to share an excerpt from my newest work I anticipate coming out soon. Given that one of the most amusing ways I’ve learned valuable lessons was through wagers and challenges, I could not resist using it as a premise for one of my vagaries, and I hope you enjoy this in-edit so…
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Writing For Readers
Kurt Vonnegut’s Rules 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. 2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. 3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.…
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Thomas Jefferson’s Influence on “Mr. Darcy and the Designing Woman”
Thomas Jefferson is best known for writing the Declaration of Independence, but what other “credits” might we attribute to him? He was also a scientist, an inventor, an architect, and even a philosopher. “The papers of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), diplomat, architect, scientist, and third president of the United States, held in the Library of Congress…
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For Love or Money: Marrying for Money in Austen
A look at the contrasting viewpoints on marrying for money in Austen