Snowbound Reselase Day – Giveaway Winners and New Excerpt

  Good morning, and thank you all ever so much for your amazing support and encouragement over the last couple of weeks! Your wonderful comments kept me going! So, my latest Pride & Prejudice variation is out at last. The Kindle version of Snowbound is already live on Amazon. The paperback version has also been …

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Written in herown hand–Pennamanship in Austen’s Day

Today, when pennmanship is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, and we type notes into our phones rather than write them by hand, we give little thought to handwriting, much less the different ways in which letters might be formed. That was not the case during the days of writing with quill and ink.

An Announcement and an Excerpt from An Endeavour to be Worthy

If you have yet to hear the buzz, Deborah Balm has agreed to narrate An Endeavour to be Worthy! I am excited and hope to have that released by the end of February or the beginning of March depending upon ACX’s turnover time for reviewing the files, so look out for the release post. In …

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Excerpt from A Short Period of Exquisite Felicity–the Thaw!

The theme of the month is The Thaw and it recalled me back to one of my older books, A Short Period of Exquisite Felicity. February of 1814 there was a Frost Fair in London and Darcy and Elizabeth meet there (in my book) and the thaw begins, even if the temperatures were sub-zero! Hope …

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The Truth About Family Audiobook Announcement

I am delighted to announce that the audiobook for The Truth About Family is now available! The wonderful Stevie Zimmerman narrated it, so you know it sounds amazing. You can find it at Audible. To celebrate, I thought I’d share a scene that is not in the book. I have a fair bit of material …

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Guess Whose Book Just Joined Club 1000!

Celebrate with me! I’ve joined Club 1000! Never heard of it? I’m not surprised, since I just made it up.  But I hope you’ll agree that it’s a prestigious honor nonetheless. The Club is for books that have been purchased, read, and enjoyed by enough people to collect at least 1000 ratings/reviews on Amazon, and …

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Cover Reveal, Excerpt & Ongoing Giveaway

Hello, and thanks again for your wonderful comments to my first post about my new book! Your warm welcome means so much to me! Thank you!! You’re amazing!! I hope you’ll like the cover too, and the excerpt I’m posting today.       Book Blurb: A narrow escape and a staggering encounter mere miles …

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Inspiration Strikes-An Excerpt from my Unexpected Current Work in Progress

Good morning, dear readers!  Have you ever been moving along so perfectly in your life that everything seems to be falling into place?  You have your work done, the house is clean, laundry is folded, all dinners are set for the next week…basically EVERYTHING is laid out for your life to go as smoothly as …

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Interview with Lucy Marin

Happy New Year! Also, my best wishes to you all for peace and dignity on this day celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. For me, 2023 is already off to a lovely start. Case in point? I have the great privilege of sharing this interview with our own Lucy Marin  as my first post of …

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New Year, New Book

Hello again! I hope you had a good start to 2023. Thanks for stopping by to have a peek at what I’ve been up to in 2022. My WIP is a winter story, so how about starting with an excerpt from a snowy day? I’ve never had the chance to see much snow at Pemberley. Just …

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