Though nearly all of Jane Austen’s works end with a wedding, she does not spend much time detailing the weddings themselves, much less the wedding dresses. Modern brides often spend a great deal of effort and money on the wedding dress and expect to wear it only once. Honestly, it is hard to imagine another …
Celebrating the Audiobook of “Colonel Brandon in His Own Words” with a Giveaway!
The past six weeks were busy ones for me, launching Colonel Brandon in His Own Words and then tagging along with him on a whirlwind, 10-stop book tour. If you missed any of the festivities, look here for more book info, an excerpt, and a full list of tour stops with links. But now for …
Finery and Folly: a Lydia Story by Diana Birchall
“When Lydia went away, she promised to write very often and very minutely to her mother and Kitty; but her letters were always long expected, and always very short. Those to her mother contained little else than that they were just returned from the library, where such and such officers had attended them, and where …
Something Persuasion-ish
Talk of Persuasion is all the rage these days. 🙂 Whereas P&P calls to mind grand estates and balls and long walks in the prettyish wildernesses of private gardens, when I think of Persuasion, I think mostly of rugged seascapes and of Bath. A few years ago, I wrote a duet of second-chance loves stories …
The Greatest Risk- Chapter 2
“I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on until I am.” ~Jane Austen So here we are again, readers. Another day, another chapter. Once again, here is 2nd chapter of my work in progress, The Greatest Risk. I’ve thought about your comments and they’ve really helped me identify some …
The Cranky Cajun Cheesehead Vents
The CRANKY Cajun Cheesehead Vents, by Jack Caldwell Greetings, everyone. Jack Caldwell here. I have, for most of my life, been what Miss Bingley would call a “great reader.” I’ve enjoyed classic literature, popular fiction, and historical tomes. Thus, I have become a lover of words, particularly English words. According to WorldAtlas, it has been …
WIP news: What am I working on?
You’re probably be wondering whether I’m going to give an update on the release date of my third novel in my Dangerous Magic series. Alas, all I can report is that I’m working on it as diligently as possible, and I’ll let you know as soon as I’m sure of the release date. But for …
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