New Release is here!

 

Yes, after six years The Darcy Variations has been released for your reading pleasure!  It's been a long time in the making, often neglected in a digital drawer, waiting patiently for me to return and set it free.  My bad.  But life gets in the way while you're planning for it, right?  And that's what happened to Kate Malone and Anthony Slade (aka Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy in the 21st century).

However, they kept tap, tap, tapping at my little brain box until I pulled up the draft and dusted it off, read through what I had written back in 2017, and decided to give them my best efforts.

Stay tuned to my social media sites and here for some fun Darcy trivia questions, information about narrowboats, the tango and other fun stuff.

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Down Time from Writing:

What does a writer do in between books? The summer is such a hard time to sit in front of a computer and attempt to create a story when the sunlight flickers on the blinds, the birds are chirping and the garden is beckoning you from beyond the window! So now that my studio/writing den is completed, I decided to give myself several weeks off to empty the tired brain, ease up on the eyestrain and enjoy the remaining weeks of summer. Here in New England it's just a matter of time before the weather may take a turn for the worse.

This is my Cape Cod bowl of broken sea shells -- I call them my writing worry beads. Whenever I get in a jam for just the right word or phrase or a particular scene, I dip in and find a shell I can rub as I ponder. It also reminds me of my time on the beach at the Cape earlier this summer -- peaceful, relaxing, marvelous!

Another way to turn off the writing brain is crafting. I've been a crafter for years -- knitting, quilting, crochet, collage and painting. This is the current palette of colors I'll be working with, along with my stash of batik fabrics. I'm going to try to complete a log cabin quilt, probably just a lap quilt or a wall quilt to hang in my studio -- another source of inspiration!

This is a sample of one of the log cabins I finished this weekend. Now I'm interested in trying this pattern in crochet. Well, it's going on 3pm and I feel a need for a glass of chilled chardonnay and my latest read: Shannon Hale' Midnight in Austenland. I got such a kick out of the movie, Austenland, that I decided to try the book -- both quite enjoyable, although this one loosely follows Northanger Abbey so it has a bit of a Gothic twist! Have a great Sunday afternoon, everyone and thanks for stopping by!