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The December 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 (or not?) on my blog.
With Quill and Ink is on preorder! Release day is December 10. A sequel is under construction, and I have links to where you can download a review copy of With Quill and Ink if you are interested in reading and reviewing.
The books that I have on sale this month, plus a few from other sources.
And a special music video and story excerpt.

Click here to read the December 2021 Saturday Broadsheet

Have a great weekend!

I hope you have time to read a book. I’ll be back on Thursday with two more chapters of No Other Choice. (I hope.)

Austen Couples – I Knew I Loved You (Savage Garden)

A new month = a new music theme on Mondays. 🙂 For the month of April, all the music videos will be fan-created music homages to stories that have been put on film or were written for film. We’re starting with a montage of Austen characters. Therefore, I picked a line from a story of mine which pairs the same characters as Austen did in her work.

My choices were Darcy and Lizzy, Jane and Bingley, Lydia and Wickham, Marrianne and Colonel Brandon. I chose…

These four lines are from a novelette I wrote called Morning Mist which began with the questions: “What if Marianne met the colonel before she met Willoughby and what if the setting where they met played into Marianne’s love of the romantic?” The lines above are from that first meeting in a misty meadow one morning.

Morning Mist is currently only available in the anthology Thunder, Mist, and Frost. However, I have been contemplating breaking the anthology apart and making each title available separately, and I think this might happen later this year since it would give readers more options.

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Heart-Shaped Scenic Card

Heart-Shaped Vintage Card from olddesignshop.com

The colonel had exceptional taste — likely in all things. How could he not if he could name a bird so well, like music, and recite poetry?

“About Colonel Brandon,” their mother prompted when Marianne did not continue speaking. “How did he come to be at our gate?”

Marianne lifted her eyes from the sheet of music on her lap. She would have to imagine how the colonel might sound singing this piece later when there were not so many inquisitive people around to interrupt her musings.

[from Morning Mist one of the novelettes included in Thunder, Mist, and Frost: Nature’s Fury and Delights Anthology 1]

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Parting Glass (Máiréad Nesbitt and Tim Janis)

Before the beginning of the story Hope at Dawn, Nicholas and Kathleen, the hero and heroine, were separated by her father and brother because they did not find Nicholas, a banker, to be good enough for the daughter of an earl. Now, Kathleen is returning to England from a tragic time away in Ireland.

Today’s excerpt is the beginning of a letter Nicholas gave to Kathleen before she left, begging her to wait for him. Despite having little hope, Nicholas has been waiting for her, but has he waited in vain?

Hope at Dawn is one of four sweet Regency novelettes in First Blooms and Second Chances: Nature’s Fury and Delights Anthology 2.

This anthology, along with the first one, are both now just $1.99 (USD, EUR, GBP) / $2.99 (CAD, NZD, AUD), with all other currencies also reduced.

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First Blooms and Second Chances $0.99 for Four Days

This information can also be found on the Current Book Promotions page.

Price reduced to $0.99* from November 27 until November 30, 2020.

Life can be busy. Why not take a few minutes and escape that busyness with one of the four sweet Regency romances in this anthology:

Return to your true love in Hope at Dawn
Overcome a broken heart and find a happily ever after close to home in Dispelling the Fog
Listen to the soft proddings of your heart and find love in an orchard in Apple Blossoms and Whispering Hearts
Allow yourself to get trapped in a matchmaking scheme that brings beauty and love to the bleakness of December days in a Lily in Midwinter

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