I love this month’s theme, chosen by the wonderful Joana Starnes: “All was joy and kindness“! We could always use more of that in the world! When I first saw the phrase, I thought immediately of the holiday season; only later did I realize, with chagrin, that it’s a quote from Pride and Prejudice. (How …
Greetings, friends! I have emerged from the other side of my term in the classroom. My students were fun, as always – but they sure kept me busy grading papers and developing lesson plans! I am back this month with two posts, both related to our monthly theme: today, I’ll post “Just the Day for …
When They Were Young in the Crescent City, by Jack Caldwell Greetings everyone. Jack Caldwell here. Sorry I’ve been gone for a while. I’m working on three projects at once, and we just got over Carnival Season and Mardi Gras. The theme for this month is When They Were Young. There is only one book …
Greetings, everyone. Jack Caldwell here. This month, our theme is “Will You?” That’s right, it’s a month full of proposals, the good, the bad, and the ugly! Most will probably melt your pudding, but you might just see a stinker in the bouquet. We all need to laugh, right? Okay, I didn’t write the above. …
The Return of The Austen Interviews #8 – Another Interview with Miss Caroline Bingley JACK CALDWELL – Hello, everyone—Jack Caldwell here. For this edition of The Cajun Cheesehead Chronicles, I’ve decided to bow to popular demand and bring back The Austen Interviews! For those of you living in a cave, this is a series …
Launch Party for RUIN AND RENEWAL: Volume Three of CRESCENT CITY by Jack Caldwell It’s strange to call this event a launch party. The word party is connected so closely with celebration. This book commemorates a day that should not be celebrated, but instead be indelibly engraved into the American memory, much like December 7, 1941 …
Launch Party for ELYSIAN DREAMS: Volume Two of CRESCENT CITY by Jack Caldwell “ELYSIAN”: adjective; (literary) delightful; glorious; blissful. Happy summer, everyone. Just in time for your beach reading is the second part to my epic tale of New Orleans. ELYSIAN DREAMS: Volume Two of CRESCENT CITY. We ended Volume One in August of 1999 …
Launch Party for BOURBON STREET NIGHTS: Volume One of CRESCENT CITY by Jack Caldwell Finally, the time has come. The publishing of my most personal novel, CRESCENT CITY. The CRESCENT CITY series is the story of America’s most unique city, New Orleans, as told through the lives of an immigrant family from Derbyshire, England—the Darcys. …
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