As I posted yesterday on A Glimmer of Gold, my new novel, Something More Substantial is available today on Amazon, Kindle, and audiobook. Here is the cover, description, and the link! In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet meets Fitzwilliam Darcy in Meryton, where Mr. Darcy’s concern for his sister and general reticence leads him to insult her. But what if Mr. Darcy did not meet her there, instead making her acquaintance in other circumstances more favorable to their understanding? When she visits Rosings Park and her friend, Charlotte Collins, Elizabeth does so with no notion that Fitzwilliam Darcy even exists, for Netherfield Park remained empty the previous autumn. As is his…

With the loss of Austen Authors, my partners and I began to consider our own blogging site. I can now announce that A Glimmer of Gold is now live and will be blogging on a schedule in the next days and months. We’ll average about 3 – 4 posts a week, so plenty of content. However, unlike Austen Authors, this will not be a Regency England Based Blog. Instead, it will focus more broadly on the romance genre, and will stray to other topics on a regular basis. Our tagline is “Romance and a Whole Lot More” and we mean to make use of that leeway! Here is the first…

I thought I would post a quick update with a video today. If you have looked at the front page of the blog, you’ll see that I’ve got a pair of WIPs listed there. More Agreeably Engaged is a novella, or perhaps a little longer, a simple story about Darcy and Elizabeth putting aside their pride and prejudice soon after the ball. Work is proceeding apace and I estimate release on about the third week of February. The New Mrs. Bennet story is just that. I seem to have a thing for killing off major characters of late, and the victim in this one is Mrs. Bennet. The identity of…