Good morning! Many thanks to all who came out and said such nice things about the cover reveal for my upcoming release So Material a Change. I’ll be giving you a few excerpts from SMAC over the upcoming weeks, so keep an eye out! I posted the first excerpt back in March which many of …
A Walk in the Garden with Darcy and Elizabeth
Happy Friday, all! This month’s blog theme is “Up the Garden Path,” so I thought I’d share a brief excerpt from my latest release, Faults of Understanding. In this scene, Darcy and Elizabeth have been married less than a week, and have only recently arrived at Pemberley. As you may recall from previous excerpts, the …
We Have Mary King to Thank – Part 4
We Have Mary King to Thank – Part 4, by Jack Caldwell Greetings, everyone. Jack Caldwell here. Here is Part 4 of our story. Does ODC take a few steps forward or not? What effect will Lady Catherine de Bourgh have on them? Read on and find out! Thanks goes to my lovely Beta Babe, …
Up the Garden Path
This month’s theme had me thinking that garden scenes don’t feature very often in my books, and that’s probably because ornamental gardens are rather too close to the house. Not much chance for privacy, for meaningful talks (and hopefully a swoon-worthy kiss, or several) if our dear characters are strolling under Lady Catherine’s windows or Miss …
Up (or Down?) the Garden Path with Anne de Bourgh
Considering our August theme – Up The Garden Path – I knew immediately what I should share today. Although I daresay every novel I’ve ever written features a garden walk or two, I’m sure there must be more of them in The Ladies of Rosings Park than any other. There’s even a chapter by that …
We Have Mary King to Thank – Part 3
We Have Mary King to Thank – Part 3, by Jack Caldwell Greetings, everyone. Jack Caldwell here. Here is Part 3 of our story. Last week, we learned a new word: OBNOXIOUSEST. Well, I think it’s a new word. If “obnoxious” means “extremely unpleasant”, I suppose “obnoxiousest (obnoxious-est)” means “supremely unpleasant,” or something like that. …
Cover Reveal-So Material A Change
Hope everyone is having a great summer! I’ve spent mine editing an old tale I posted long ago called So Material a Change. Heads up to all who might have read it back then–its changed a bit. The original posted version was over 260,000 words, AKA it was a bloated whale of a tale. SMAC …
A Garden Path for Friday the Thirteenth
When Friday the thirteenth occurs during a summer month, it never seems quite as spooky to me as when it falls in October. Still, it is Friday the thirteenth, and while Austen was surely too rational to care much for superstitions, I am not a particularly rational person. So, here is a short scene from …
We Have Mary King to Thank – Part 2
We Have Mary King to Thank – Part 2, by Jack Caldwell Greetings, everyone. Jack Caldwell here. Here is Part 2 of our story. I know Part 1 was a little short. You ought to like this one better, although I still use a lot from Miss Austen’s text. Thanks goes to my lovely Beta …
To Cambridge We Will Go…
Or is it to Oxford? Or Eton? Or to Mrs Goddards’? “No governess!” How was that possible?” Five daughters brought up at home without a governess! I never heard of such a thing! Your mother must have been quite a slave to your education.” ~Lady Catherine de Bourgh With the ‘dog days’ of summer …
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