Tag: england
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Snippet Monday (belated): Dust and Silver
I apologize for the lateness of this post, but my reasons are good: I was caught up untangling some plot messes yesterday, forgot to write up this post, and ta-da! It’s suddenly Tuesday and whoops. So, this week, I bring you another excerpt from Dust and Silver. In this scene, Lady Drummond arrives at a…
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An Unpracticed Heart: My Favorite Scene
So, I love my books. Even the parts of them that made me tear out my hair in frustration. And in each one, there is a scene, or a few scenes, that I love more than the rest. Of course, that doesn’t mean it was the easiest scene to write. In fact, it’s often the…
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Strength and Weakness: Some Characters Are a Bit of Both
The heroine of my latest release, An Unpracticed Heart, is Charlotte Claridge. If I were to describe her in a few words (e.g. “smart, plucky woman who won’t take ‘no’ for an answer,” or “quiet, milquetoast kind of person who has a personality the same shade as the page”) I’m not sure I could pull…
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The Bride Price – Chapter One
It’s Monday. The kids are feeling better. The weather is gorgeous. And it is only a little more than three weeks until The Bride Price will be thrust out onto the world. So allow me to rush right through all the jibber-jabber you probably don’t care about and get to the meat of this post,…
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The Firstborn – The First Chapter
We’re down to… *looks at calendar*… three days until The Firstborn is released. I’ve teased you with excerpts. I’ve given you a cover. Today? I’m just going to give you the entire first chapter. Now excuse me, I have a quiche in the oven and I don’t want it to burn. The Firstborn Chapter One…
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The Firstborn Cover Reveal
Goodness gracious. Today is my youngest child’s first birthday. The kids are all recovering from a sniffly cold and clamoring to go outside, except that it’s a deluge and I’m waiting for an ark to show up at our doorstep any minute. This weekend we’re moving furniture and buying drywall and having a birthday party…
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Getting to Know You, or an Excerpt from The Firstborn
Today marks six days until my next book is released. That means I’m out of my mind with Stuff To Do, grabbing reviews, marketing, sharing the pre-order link, wearing a giant placard and pacing street corners while begging people to buy my book PLEASE buy my book because people expect money as payment for bills…
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Just a Quickie…
It has been hectic around here of late. But April is sliding away and a new month is dawning tomorrow. So there are things! Of which I will mention! In an excited-like manner! First up, a phenomenal author and close friend of mine was recently interviewed on Wattpad and it is just a terrific interview…