Tag: Alone with Mr. Darcy

The 12 Days of a Jane Austen Christmas – Snowstorms & Snowdrop

Here on unseasonably balmy Cape Cod, I haven’t even put on my winter jacket and snow still seems far away. It’s hard to remember it’s mid-December and almost Christmas when I’m walking Sippewissett wearing a sweater, but that’s okay by me. Sippewissett feels differently, since she loves snow, and the more the better. But we …

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Jane Austen at Epcombs: In search of Longbourn

I didn’t intend to go hunting for Longbourn, but I like to have a mental image of a setting when I write. So when I started on Alone with Mr. Darcy, I wanted to find a picture of the road to Longbourn Darcy and Elizabeth would be walking along. Of course, it had to be the real road, so …

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Alone with Mr. Darcy is here!

Alone with Mr. Darcy!

It’s finally here! I can hardly believe it, but after all the delays and difficulties, ALONE WITH MR. DARCY is available at last! I feel like I’ve told you so much about this book over the last year that I have nothing left to say, but here’s the blurb: Elizabeth Bennet can’t imagine anything worse than …

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A Sneak Preview of Alone with Mr. Darcy

Pray forgive me! The last time I posted here, I said my new book would be released December 1. I was wrong. Owing to a series of real-life setbacks, I lost over a month of work time, so now I’m aiming for mid to late January. But I’ll try to make it up to you by …

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More Scenes from the Outtake File

Since so many people enjoyed the last set of out-takes I posted, here is another set of scenes I had to cut from my new book. I hated cutting these since I really liked how they came out, so I’m glad to have the chance to share them. It also gives me an excuse to show off the …

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Scenes from the Outtake File

The first draft of my new story Alone with Mr. Darcy is now over 55,000 words long (yay!). It’s been a slow process since Darcy and Elizabeth have been particularly rebellious about following the plot line, so I’ve had to cut long stretches of what I’ve written. It’s frustrating to edit out several weeks worth of writing, …

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