As this month’s theme has to do with Jane Austen and School, let us begin with a visit, in fact and in story, to the school Jane Austen herself attended. Other treatments of the theme might deal with her characters at school – or university – or threatened with working as governesses – or anything …
My writing journey has been a roller coaster thus far. I know it’s a cliche to say but it’s absolutely true. One of my manuscripts which has gone through a ride of its own is a YA Mystery I wrote a few years ago. I landed an agent with this manuscript only to have that …
Hi, everyone! I’m so excited to share this with you. I hope everyone enjoys a big ball of fluff because even with a super stubborn Elizabeth, we still have Grunt! We can’t leave him out. If you haven’t pre-ordered your copy yet, hurry over to Amazon and place the order! It will only be $3.99 …
Darcy and Elizabeth alone – That is my favorite story to write. Get rid of all the noise created by the secondary characters so that I can have a closer look at our favorite couple. In The Carriage Ride, Darcy and Lizzy meet by chance at The Bell, the coaching inn at Bromley (recommended by …
I can’t imagine a life without books. When people tell me they don’t read, I try reallllly hard to keep any kind of expression off my face, while inwardly thinking, WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU??? Books are my happy place. Reading them, writing them, hugging them… whatever it is they make me smile. So recently, a big …
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My kids love to play the game Would You Rather. The questions range from, Would You Rather have Wi-Fi that’s always slow, or have a phone that’s always about to die? To questions like, Would You Rather burp every time you speak, or fart every time you kiss someone? A lot of the questions are …
In my new book Unwrapping Mr. Darcy, Lizzy has a fluffy black cat named Grunt. I thought everyone might like to meet the inspiration behind Grunt, who is a little more mischievous than his real-life counterpart but was a lot of fun to write. It’s been over a year ago that my husband decided my …
So I’m going to try something new here for a bit and see how it all works. I’m challenging myself to write a short story each month and at the end of the twelve months, I’ll put it all together into a book. To kick off this challenge, I looked to two fun ‘national days’ …
Culinary mythology suggests that though Jane Austen enjoyed ice cream during her life, she would never have even conceived of an ice cream cone. We know Italo Marchiony was granted a patent for a multiple cone mold on in December 15, 1903 so ice cream cones were clearly around during the Victorian era. But just how …
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