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Her Sisterly Love–Cover Reveal, Excerpt, & Giveaway!

Happy Thursday! Can you believe 2021 is almost over? I’ll be starting 2022 by releasing a novella, as you may have seen on social media. Her Sisterly Love releases on Monday, 24 January, and I am so excited about it. Today, I will show you the gorgeous cover and share an excerpt. On top of …

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Great (Christmas) Expectations

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It starts when we’re kids: all the build-up to Christmas (or what ever holiday you celebrate this time of year): the decorations, the wish lists, the family traditions, the idea that magic can happen!  But the higher our unreasonable expectations, the more likely they are to be disappointed. On the other hand, sometimes what happens …

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Jane Austen’s Birthday: Did She Enjoy it? by Diana Birchall

Today, Jane Austen’s birthday (her 246th to be exact), it is tempting to reflect on how she spent her birthdays and what she thought of them. This simple question is surprisingly difficult to answer, first because she made little mention of birthdays in either the surviving letters or in her novels; and also because birthdays …

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Your Own Holiday Adventure

It’s the holiday season, dear readers, and what a wonderful time it is. Everyone seems to be a little kinder, a little more patient and more willing to forgive and forget. The lights are brighter, the music is jollier and the books…are more apt to feature a cabin in the woods with snow. How I …

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Dangerous Magic Book 2: Threads of Magic Cover Reveal and Giveaway

Today I’m thrilled to share the cover of my latest book, Threads of Magic. This is Book 2 of Dangerous Magic: A Pride and Prejudice Variation.  It’s been a long time coming, but I can now finally reveal that it will available for pre-order on December 25th! That should be an easy date to remember …

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“Comfort and Joy” Excerpt

With only one week until the release of my holiday novella, “Comfort and Joy,” I wanted to share an excerpt with you to ‘make [your] spirits bright!’ This scene takes place instantly after the last I shared on October 25th. Elizabeth, her young cousins and their friend have finally found shelter in stables they came …

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The Turnspit Dragon

In which the author does a thing. I’ve been doing a retrospective at my site, Random Bits of Fascination on backlist this month and realized I had 29 books to features, but there were 30 days in the month. Well, I could skip Thanksgiving as it’s a holiday and all. But that was too easy, …

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Happy Thanksgiving – from Hunsford?

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you in the USA! I hope you have many things in your life to be thankful for! Here in the UK we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, but we do have a Harvest Festival of Thanksgiving which dates back in different forms to the middle ages. Plays that represented the figure of …

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His Perfect Gift Audiobook Release Celebration!

Happy Friday!! If you didn’t see it on my website on Monday, His Perfect Gift is out on audiobook! If you haven’t read it yet, then check it out on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, or paperback. BUT, if you love audiobooks, be sure to head on over to Audible or Amazon and get your copy so …

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It’s a Wonderful Life…Mr. Darcy?

We are coming up on the holiday season, which some would say is the most wonderful time of the year. I’ve often found that it’s not only a season of giving and receiving, but also introspection. In Frank Capra’s classic “It’s a Wonderful Life,” after a financial misstep, the main character George Bailey doesn’t believe …

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