Lots of excitement this week! The ebook of my first book, The Best Part of Love is returned to Amazon and KU as of yesterday! And the cover reveal for A Lady’s Reputation is here next week. Hope to see you there! There just might be a giveaway! Chapter Three The Gardiners received the express …
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A Picnic in Venice (Part 12 of Byron and the Darcys series)
Lady Catherine was in a very bad mood. As she seated herself at the breakfast table, arrayed in her richly and stiffly embroidered morning dress with its tight lace collar Elizabeth and Darcy could see, by her black looks, that her temper, so far rigidly held in, would not be so for long. She began …
Mountaintop Picnic
If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter at all, you know I’ve been travelling this summer. In a fit of insanity, my husband and I planned an entire summer spent in Europe – WITH our three children. It started with 2.5 weeks in Germany. We participate in a home exchange group and a German …
The Newlywed Tilneys with a View to a Picnic
Picnics! What a fun theme! Only one problem; I didn’t have a single picnic scene in any of my books to share… so I wrote one for the Northanger Abbey sequel I have underway (working title: Murder at Northanger Abbey). It fit nicely into the first chapter where I’m giving a snap shot of Catherine …
Food ~ the Glorious Food of the Georgians
They say never go shopping for food when you’re hungry. Writing a post on Georgian dishes when you’re hungry isn’t the best idea either. Luckily, I can’t nip into the kitchen to snack on plovers’ eggs, Nelson’s pudding or oyster patties, so I’m probably safe, at least for now. These were just a few of …
The Darcys and Lord Byron in Venice Part 11 – Diana Birchall
“My dear Lord Byron,” wrote Lady Catherine, then laid down her quill to gaze dreamily out at the canal with a romantic expression that on her normally hard and imperious face, would have been deeply disturbing if any one had been there to observe it. But she was alone in the palatial chamber that Darcy …
The Persuasion of Miss Jane Austen – Wrapping It Up!
Don’t you wish Jane Austen could have enjoyed the same kind of romance and happy ending she carefully crafted for each of her heroines? Perhaps she did after all! This was my inspiration for The Persuasion of Miss Jane Austen. I also drew a bit of inspiration from this photo, which I took of a …
The Darcys and Lord Byron in Venice – Part 10
Lord Byron was writing. It was a good night for it, for the moon was full above the Grand Canal, and he occasionally looked up from his ornate desk in his long salon at the Palazzo Mocenigo to gaze for a moment at the shadowy fanciful shapes of the palazzi opposite, candelabra flickering from deep …
Spring Has Sprung – And Mr Darcy Needs Your Help
I read somewhere that daffodils symbolise new beginnings. I don’t know if it’s true. Perhaps the brave little snowdrops deserve this badge of honour more. But when daffodils start to flower and they enliven the dreary winter landscape with bright patches of colour, we know that spring is here at last, and sunny days are …
Throw Back Thursday
As we dash about, caught in the hustle and bustle of everyday life, we can rarely tell which ones of the little, seemingly inconsequential moments will stay with us forever and steer us along the way. When I first opened my mother’s tattered copy of Pride and Prejudice, with several pages almost detached from the …
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