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 …
Criminal justice in Regency England was sometimes more a case of criminal injustice, for both the victim and the perpetrator. For starters, until the middle of the eighteenth century there were no authorised police, or constables for UK readers. The responsibility for law and order in the country was up to each village, town, city,… Read the full blog post …
I was tempted to post another excerpt from The Attack, but decided I’d rather explore the agricultural landscape in existence during the P&P time frame. I’ve been busy outlining plots for future stories, and the subject will feature rather prominently in one of them. It seems to be a common assumption that Mr. Bennet was… Read the full blog post …
Some of you might remember a blog I did in December. It was a blurb I created to begin my return to writing. At the time I had no plans to do much of anything with it, but the reception it received, along with the supportive, encouraging comments, convinced me to create a story around… Read the full blog post …
In reviewing Pride & Prejudice, one thing stands out to me. Why wasn’t Elizabeth Bennet referred to, or thought of, as a bluestocking? She was, after all, an educated woman, although her education was a result of her own thirst for knowledge, and not because of any schooling, which would have been, in accordance with… Read the full blog post …
Meet Elly Mae. She is the love of my life, but don’t tell my wife; she might not understand. Dogs are a big part of my life, and always have been. The only time I can remember living without a furry friend was 8 years ago, when we lived in Hawaii for a little bit… Read the full blog post …
My brother, Jann, and I have been working together on a P&P novel. It began almost two years ago in response to Jann’s shameless and relentless begging for me to write something with him. I mean, really, he would not leave me alone until I agreed to work with him, give him some pointers, and… Read the full blog post …
In my last post, I touched briefly on the use of wigs in and around the Regency era. To clarify, by the end of the 18th century, with one notable exception, wigs were no longer popular with men or women. For men especially, the short, natural cut was en vogue and wigs had become outdated.… Read the full blog post …
Forgive my plagiarism of the title of Mr. Steinbeck’s literary masterpiece but, in my defense, it seemed a decent fit for my January post. A poor reason, but I’ll take it. The subject occurred to me because of Cinnamon Worth’s December post regarding women’s hair styles in Georgian England. This set me to thinking: what… Read the full blog post …
I have a favor to ask. As some of you are aware, I have been undergoing cancer treatments for the last few months. The chemo affected me in unforeseen ways, to the point that my hematologist gave serious consideration to suspending the treatments. Since early September I have been unable to do much more than… Read the full blog post …
