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Opening day of baseball season is just around the corner, and I can hardly wait. The Seattle Mariners are my team, and like most fans, I live in perpetual hope that, at long last, this might be our year! For a … Continue reading
How to Tour of Bath, England, in 90 Minutes or Less
Here’s my latest post on Austen Authors: My husband works for Boeing and he occasionally travels with his job, jetting off to exotic vacation destinations like Glasgow Montana, Roswell New Mexico, and Fairbanks Alaska in the dead of winter. Needless … Continue reading
Cover Two
Ta da! Here it is, the cover to For Myself Alone, my second (and soon-to-be-released) Austenesque novel. A few weeks ago I showed you the completed painting, which my graphic artist (a very cool and talented guy) has now translated into the finished … Continue reading
Cover Art Reveal
I’ve been promising that the cover art for my second novel, For Myself Alone, was coming. So now here it is! I’m pleased with the way it turned out, but the early returns weren’t promising. When the painting was underway, … Continue reading
Word Search
Here’s a word-search puzzle I designed a few years back for my original website. Not surprisingly, it’s made up of all Jane Austen related words, the clues (with the first letter) for which are below. And if you’re still stumped, you’ll find the answers … Continue reading
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Pemberley, the Picturesque
I’m something of an artist, and although writing consumes most of my creative energy, I still pick up a paintbrush from time to time. So, now that it’s time to produce some cover art for The Darcys of Pemberley, I’m going … Continue reading
Segue to the Twentieth Century
I’m half-heartedly watching the Mariners game (not a good night for them), and wondering how to make a graceful segue from Jane Austen, my usual subject matter, to baseball. No problem. And it was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had by nature … Continue reading
Watch out for that Intrusive Author
“Author intrusion” is a definite writing “don’t” nowadays. The fiction author is not to call attention to him/herself in any way, thereby interrupting the flow of the story and the reader’s total immersion in it. But in the 18th and 19th … Continue reading
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Celebrating!
She was looked at however, and with some admiration; for, in her own hearing, two gentlemen pronounced her to be a pretty girl. Such words had their due effect; she immediately thought the evening pleasanter than she had found it … Continue reading
