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Several years ago, I wrote a few super short scenes just for fun, and I recently set to work on them to see if they could be expanded....

All the writing advice out there discuss the importance of that opening line—that hook—that gets your potential reader to sit down, pay...

Why would you subscribe to an author's newsletter? I know why I want you to subscribe: I want to keep you apprised of what I'm working on...

If you hear "paste jewelry", do you think ugly knockoff or, worse, Elmer's glue? Paste jewelry was popular among Georgian society and was...

Love it or hate it, social media is almost inescapable. We use it to find out a store’s latest sales, keep in touch with old friends, and...

For those of you who follow me on social media, you know that I post weekly about Georgian- era jewelry. There's even a piece of jewelry...

In Nine Ladies, our regency time traveler to 2011 has to navigate a strange world with strange customs, and one of them is grocery...

You might not be able to go back in time and find an attractive, intelligent man with pride issues, but Nine Ladies IS a real place. I...

The Jane Austen Society of North America Capital Region has invited me to talk about fan fiction and Nine Ladies on Sunday March 28 at...

It’s rare to get “real” mail. Something handwritten that arrives in the mailbox. Not junk, not a bill, but words put to paper for my eyes...

I am EXCITED to share that my Pride and Prejudice variation Nine Ladies is on sale now! Modern Elizabeth. Regency Darcy. A time travel...

I can reattach a button near enough to the right place so it gets into a buttonhole. I only got as far as cross-stitch bookmarks as a...

How many of you have a "special interest"? A hobby, a collection, a sport, a "thing" that you're really in to? It's no surprise that Jane...

While Jane Austen’s brother Frank was eager to skate, it seems that the women in his

My son is ten and his baby teeth were slow to come in… and they’re slow to fall out. He’s only had a few fall out on their own, even...

I thought this blog post would be about cute earrings. I’d share more detail and pictures than I can in a #GeorgianJewelry tweet or FB...

Some think that Jane Austen was a culturally and politically myopic person because her novels are seemingly oblivious to those matters....

There are stereotypes that go along with being a writer and a (former) librarian. I’m supposed to read a lot (yes), I’m supposed to drink...

In the Georgian era, female accomplishments were indispensable assets on the marriage market. Like Miss Bingley describes, the ability to...

Anyone who knows me well knows that I’m a tea drinker. Some might unfairly say tea snob, but I do like my tea, which is kept in...