Heather Moll's Blog 
Excessively Diverted 

I received this message about the price of a recent release when I offered a $0.99 sale on a different, older book: “I’d buy (newest book) outright if you brought down the price.” I followed up and said since it wasn’t in their budget right now to look out in future newsletters for when the new book they wanted was on sale for $0.99 and I thanked them for being a subscriber. They replied with the implication that I make the book free on a fanfic site. I used to do that. I lov

I think a lot about word choice and language use when writing and my goal is to be as accurate to the time as possible. That means trips to Google Ngram and looking up etymology to see if the word I want was in use the way I want to use it when I set my book, usually 1811-1813. Of course, readability trumps accuracy, and no word choice should hurt a modern reader. I'll use a modern word before I offend someone, no matter how accurate it might have been in Austen's day. Words

Realistic travel times for Pride and Prejudice locations, with some reasonable guesses for where those made up places might be.