Category: The Saturday Broadsheet

The February 2021 Saturday Broadsheet

The Saturday Broadsheet, with all my writing life updates, is now available at the link at the bottom of this short post. In this issue of the Broadsheet you will find:

  • Info about what is posting on my blog — which you probably already know. 🙂
  • My progress on several writing and publishing projects (If you are an email subscriber, there will be an exclusive excerpt from a story to read in this section.)
  • Info about three books that are on sale — one is mine, two are from Shannon Winslow
  • A video of review clips that I just recently made for Mr. Bingley Plans a Ball
  • A video about King Alfred and Anglo-Saxon Oatcakes

Hopefully, you will find something of interest and perhaps a book to add to your TBR (to be read) pile. 🙂

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Have a great weekend!

I’ll be back on Monday with a story and song pairing.


The January 2021 Saturday Broadsheet

Welcome to a brand new year of monthly updates and a new way of sharing them here on my blog.

Each month I spend many hours compiling The Saturday Broadsheet for my mailing list. Then, I jump over here to the blog and copy, paste, and reformat it in a blog post, which, as you might imagine, takes another bit of time. Because my words for the year are refresh and renew, I have decided to try something intended to streamline things.

Below is a bullet-point summary of the things contained in the newsletter I wrote. Below that, is a link to the public version of the newsletter. The link will just open to a new webpage.

  • I am looking back just briefly at last year and then sharing some plans I have going into 2021.
  • There are a few changes planned and being thought about when it comes to the blog.
  • I have three books that I am planning to publish before the end of March 2021.
  • There are a few sections that delve into budget-friendly reading, including info about January’s 99cent book and a friend’s book bundle that is on sale.
  • There is a video of review snippets.
  • And last, but not least, there is a little bit of info about a wall of stained-glass windows in a cathedral, which I heard about on a program I watched.

That’s a lot of information. I should likely call it a news magazine rather than a letter or maybe it’s a news novelette? 😀 Whatever you call it, it will take a while to read, so make sure you’re comfortably situated, and then click the link below to begin reading.

CLick here to read this month’s Saturday Broadsheet

When you’re done reading, you can always come back here and share your comments about this news sharing format and anything you read in the newsletter.

Have a great weekend!


December 2020 Saturday Broadsheet

Can you believe we are already at the end of the year? It’s been quite the year, hasn’t it? But before we bid farewell to 2020, let me tell you what I have been up to in my writing life this past month and what is on the horizon to happen (hopefully) before the year ends or just as the calendar turns. 

Story Updates

Here are a few updates on stories I have been working on and what I am planning to work on next: 

Christmas in Gracechurch Street:  This story was supposed to be on preorder today. It’s not – which fits for this story. It has not been where I wanted it to be the whole time I was writing it. I am a person who likes schedules and routine. This year has been one of working on flexibility, whether I wanted to work on it or not. 😀 However, all the edits should be done by the end of next week, and I have penciled in December 15 as the release day for this book. 

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November 2020’s Saturday Broadsheet

Happy November! We had our first snowfall of the season this week, and the days are growing so much shorter. I purchased a Happy Light for myself this year. I always seem to miss the sunshine as the greyness of November settles in, so I thought I would see if some artificial sunshine would help me miss the sun less. 

Below, you’ll find all my news for the month which includes news of a couple of novelette releases and an update on the Christmas story I am trying to get done before Christmas, as well as a few other things. 

Writing News

Currently, I am working on three different stories: 

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The Saturday Broadsheet (October 3, 2020)

Happy October to you all! It is usually one of the prettiest months here in Nova Scotia with all the leave changing colours. It is also going to be a rather busy month in my writing life as I have one book to publish and a couple of others to get ready for publishing soon. I’ll give you all those details below along with information regarding the end of my Kindle Unlimited experiment which I started in March 2019. 

Writing News

Currently, I am working on three different stories: 

  1. Christmas in Gracechurch Street: Yes! I am still working on this one. For some unknown reason, this story just wants to take its time being written, which is frustrating because I would rather it stay on schedule. LOL With a little luck and a good deal of effort on my part, I should have pre-order and release day information for you in November’s Saturday Broadsheet. 
  2. His Sensible Heart: This is the next Sweet Tuesday story which will focus on Miles Chapman’s journey to happily ever after. It took me a bit longer to get settled into this story than I had expected since I decided it is going to be set in a new-to-me location. That meant additional research. The first chapter is scheduled to post on October 13, 2020. If you are wondering who Miles Chapman is, he is the brother of Belle, the heroine in His Irreplaceable Belle. He is the youngest son of Sir Allen and has always gotten his way and not had anything more expected of him than to make his father look good. However, he and his father are not on friendly terms at present which means young Miles must now take life more seriously. 
  3. Mr. Bingley Plans a Ball: This will be the next Thursday’s Three Hundred story, and the second Teatime Tale which will be extended. The original story was just over 1100 words long, and the goal is to develop it into a story that is at least 10,000 words. The first chapter of this story will post on October 22, 2020. 

Publishing News

Her Convenient Forever, Touches of Austen book 5 and the most recent Sweet Tuesday’s story, will be on pre-order VERY soon, which means I will also be making some advance reader copies available soon. So, be watching for information about those things. The scheduled release date for this book is October 20, 2020. Her Convenient Forever will be available exclusively on Amazon for now. However, as you will read below, it will eventually be available at other retailers. 

In November, I have two releases tentatively written on my calendar. Those two releases are Christmas in Gracechurch Street (Sweet Possibilities book 2) and Moonlight, Mistletoe, and Mary (Sweet Extra #1). Sweet Extra stories will be novelette-length sequels to the Sweet Possibilities books.  

Kindle Unlimited: The End of an Experiment

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