Category: What If stories
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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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Enlistments in a Regency Militia Unit and Revisiting “Mr. Darcy’s Inadvertent Bride”
When I first conceived this book, I planned to have Mr. Wickham compromise Elizabeth Bennet with a kiss and then disappear from the militia, but, before I put pen to paper, I had to attempt to have the historical details correct, which, unfortunately, for me, was not as easy as I had first thought. Initially,…
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Announcing the Winners of the 2nd Annual Fall in Love with Austen Giveaway
Thank you to all who gave our Fall in Love with Austen giveaway a try. We appreciate everyone who has traveled this journey with us during our first year. Remember . . . ********************************* First up, we have the lovely Alice McVeigh who is being quite generous to our followers: The two PRIDE AND PREJUDICE…
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A Walk to Meryton
Hello, Delightful Readers! It has been a whirlwind month or two and I love these calmer moments when I can share a bit of my WIP with you. I hope you are enjoying this story and hope to have publishing information for you in the coming months. In the meanwhile, for those of you just…
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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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A Match For Margaret Dashwood, Part 3
Hello again! I’m back with the next section of my work-in-progress, an epistolary novella with characters from Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey! If you missed the first two parts (or need to refresh your memory on what’s going on), you can read the previous sections here. * * * * * * *…
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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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A Look Back And a Giveaway!
Some of you know that about a month ago, we lost our little dog, Echo, to diabetes. She was the inspiration for a major character in one of my novels, An Unexpected Turn of Events. In her honor, I hope you will let me update and re-post parts of a blog entry from 2017. Plus…
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An Audience with Mr. Bennet Part II
First of all, I must thank Vesper and Glynis for the great comments last month. I was in the midst of a Critical Approaches to Literature class and used our conversations on one of my assignments regarding the Reader-Response Theory. Now, I won’t make you wait any longer for the next installment. For those of…