Category: retelling
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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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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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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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In Praise of Retelling (& Benjamin Franklin)
On Thursdays this year, I’m teaching grammar, sentence diagramming, and writing to a group of 9-11 year olds. It’s a new class prep for me, and has required more time than I expected. Particularly the grammar! (The 12 tenses, 4 types, and 4 attributes of a verb –does English even have 12 tenses?? Grammar is…
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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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Darcy House
I think this month’s excerpt might be what you have been waiting for, so I won’t keep you from it. For those of you just joining or wanting to reread the prior posts, here are the links (in the proper order): What if?, What if? Part II, The Letter, Elizabeth’s Perspective, A Walk at Rosings, A Walk at Rosings Part II, What…
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Excerpt from Newest WIP
Hello friends! It is officially summer and there’s so much to do. Camps for the kiddos, catching up on my atrocious yard, reading my never ending TBR, and I think I still have a full-time job in there somewhere. I’m also excited for a huge Austenesque indie author event that will be happening in 9…
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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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The 2024 Eclipse and Lizzy Bennet’s Top 10 Regrets
Did you see the eclipse on Monday? My four kids and my husband and I drove to Columbus, Ohio, and it was an adventure. It also gave me feels for a modern P&P moment. Enjoy! Lizzy Bennet’s Top 10 Regrets- A short story by Corrie Garrett Regret #10. Majoring in astronomy has got to be…