My original plan for this month was to give you an excerpt from my next novella and show the cover. Unfortunately, life stepped in to destroy those plans. I’ve battled a few health problems and my border collie pup is suffering from a three week bout of severe diarrhea. I think that covers everything, other… Read the full blog post …
This month’s post gives you a sample of Part Two of the Elizabeth Said, Darcy Said series. This novella takes another look at the infamous Meryton assembly, but through Darcy’s eyes. It joins the story after Elizabeth has given Darcy a piece of her mind and stomped off to the other side of the hall… Read the full blog post …
What if the Meryton Assembly in Pride and Prejudice, where Elizabeth and Darcy had their first meeting and not so coincidentally formed their first, unfavorable, impressions of each other had taken a different course from the one we are familiar with? Would our beloved protagonists still have fallen in love, or would their HEA have… Read the full blog post …
The assembly is used as a major plot point in a lot of Pride & Prejudice variations. It seems to be an important part of most stories in this genre, and why not? Jane Austen used it to introduce us to Mr.Bingley and his friend, Mr. Darcy, and to set in motion pretty much everything… Read the full blog post …
I thought this month I would be lazy and treat everyone to another excerpt from my latest book, which was released on March 29. I have to confess, my decision is a bit selfish. Jann and I had to make a trip to Utah for a family memorial. The death of our brother-in-law was not… Read the full blog post …
Outlining plots, which I have been engaged in for a week, is always a voyage of discovery for me. Not having lived during the Regency(no, really? who’da thunk!), I got to thinking about the movement of goods in the early 19th century. How did shops in England get the goods they sold? I realize that… Read the full blog post …
I have been thinking about changes I’ve gone through since I decided to follow(far, far behind) in my brother Jann’s footsteps and become a published writer. Part of the impetus was my move to Calgary to help care for my mother, but a larger consideration was the fact that I was fast approaching retirement and… Read the full blog post …
I was toying with the idea of exploring changes in transportation during the Regency and early part of the Georgian eras, but decided instead to offer an excerpt from the story I am currently working on. The idea came to me whilst in the throes of constructing the Duplicity and Deceit outline and, not one… Read the full blog post …
Because Christmas is little more than a week from today, I decided to share the story behind the creation of Charles Dickens’ masterpiece, a work as popular now as when it was first published. It is to me an inspiring account, and a message of love during this most precious and sacred time of year.… Read the full blog post …
The month of October continued into November and was made up of what I can only describe as turmoil, an opinion I’m reasonably confident my wife shares. The second weekend of the month is when Canada’s Thanksgiving celebration falls. Our tradition for this weekend is to spend it with our children, who live five hundred… Read the full blog post …
Communication in the 18th and 19th centuries was a tedious process, and time consuming to the extreme. Unlike today where an email can be sent from one side of the globe to the other almost instantaneously, letters between friends, family members, or businesses, etc. took weeks if they were only crossing the country, to months… Read the full blog post …
A lot has happened this past month and the older I get the faster time seems to pass, so I decided for this post to give you another look at my upcoming release. The title is ‘Duplicity and Deceit’, which I must confess was not my idea. It was suggested by the wonderful woman who… Read the full blog post …
This month I am sharing the first chapter of my current WIP. The story begins when highwaymen accost Elizabeth, Jane, and Mrs. Gardiner near Pemberley. Suspicion falls on Mr. Darcy, who is rumored to be suffering a bit of financial strain. Of course, Darcy being Darcy, he pays no attention to the gossip, which leads… Read the full blog post …
