Happy New Year! 2020 was a very difficult year for everyone, so I think it’s important for us to celebrate the achievement of all the authors who were somehow able to make their way through writing a book (or more than one, as it so happens!). It is no mean feat, I can tell you, …
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Pugilism: Boxing, Diversity, and Mr. Darcy
“A gentleman only uses his hands to defend himself, and not to attack; we call the pugilistic art, for that reason, the noble science of defence.” Bill Richmond If you’ve read Georgette Heyer’s Regency novels, or Regency novels in general, you’ll recognize a situation where the heroine arrives at an inn only to find all …
Launch Day! Fortune and Felicity
It’s finally here!! It seems like it was a very long journey for this Pride and Prejudice what-if variation, which was written during difficult circumstances for me and, more recently, for the whole world. I can hardly believe the project has finally come to fruition! I’m wiping away a little tear from my eye. Fortune …
Hot Cross Buns: A Good Friday Tradition
Well it’s Good Friday, and it’s time for the mouth-watering taste of a hot cross bun, something Jane Austen would have eaten for breakfast on this very day. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to go to the shops because of lockdown, so I can’t have any this year, and I couldn’t bake them because I’m …
Cover Reveal: Fortune and Felicity
Well, we all knew this day was coming. I won’t be posting a new chapter this week. Instead, I have some great news for you. Fortune & Felicity is now available for Pre-order on Amazon here!!! And I’m having a pre-release special sale price for $2.99, which will last until publication day. I’m also very …
Excerpt from my Work in Progress: Fortune and Felicity -6
Hello again. I hope everyone’s at home [if they can be] and keeping safe in these tough times. A big virtual hug to all of you who are feeling isolated and need a bit of cheering. The anticipation is over. Elizabeth has an interview with Darcy. But how will the encounter go? A lot is …
Excerpt from my Work in Progress: Fortune and Felicity – episode 5
There has been a lot of speculation about how Elizabeth and Darcy will get together. I think this chapter will answer the question. Meanwhile, if you haven’t been following the story, you can read the Prologue, Chapter 1, Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 here. Chapter 4 It was not a good time for her …
Excerpt from my Work in Progess: Fortune and Felicity – Episode 4
As many of you guessed, Darcy didn’t turn into a playboy overnight!!! If you haven’t been following the story, you can read the Prologue, Chapter 1, and Chapter 2 here. Meanwhile, for those of you have been with me from the beginning, sit back and enjoy. Chapter 3 It did not take long for …
Excerpt from My Work in Progress: Fortune and Felicity – 3
As promised, here is the third episode of the new book I’m working on, Fortune & Felicity. If you haven’t read the first two episodes, you can catch up with the Prologue here, and Chapter 1 here. Chapter 2 Elizabeth winced with pain as she stepped on a tin soldier left in the hallway by …
Leap into Love Interlude by Monica Fairview
Today should be the last day of February, but it isn’t, so I still have a chance to Leap into Love. For today’s romantic moment, I’ve decided to share one of my early Pride & Prejudice sequels, The Darcy Cousins. Of course, I have to put up a *spoiler alert. I do love this scene, …
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