Jeanna Ellsworth ~ Refined Like Silver

Sharon Lathan

Sharon Lathan is the best-selling author of The Darcy Saga, a ten-volume sequel series to Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice.

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Stephanie L

I’m behind as usual…just wanted to comment and say this was a lovely interview! I am really looking forward to reading this book. I had to share your striped pj story with my retired police officer hubby. He just cracked up. It’s amazing how we go with what we are feeling at the moment and look back later and smack ourselves in the head (speaking from experience….). Hope you had a great Thanksgiving, best wishes for the Christmas season.

junewilliams7

Such a fun interview! I didn’t realize that you *need* to write for your sanity. Had to laugh at your reaction to the patient in the “striped pajamas” – heh-heh! At least you didn’t scream when you saw the gun that his “wife” had.

Maria

I have only read “Mr. Darcy’s Promise” and I found it was very sweet and engaging. I have read beautiful reviews of this new book and I look forward to getting to it! I think that the spiritual journey is a new aspect for Austen inspired novels and I am very curious to read this new story. Thanks for the chance to win a copy!

Jeanna

Thanks Maria! I’m so glad you liked Mr. Darcy’s Promise. I am actually republishing it with (hopefully) fewer errors. The second edition will probably be available before Christmas. I plan on making it free for a week so everyone can get the new version. I hope you get a chance to reread it! I agree that few people have taken JAFF into the spiritual realm before and it is fairly new territory. Those who do not mind reading a bit about God and the character learning to fully rely on God can’t say enough about it. They really love it. So good luck in the giveaway! Hope you win!

Erika Hoemke

Jeanna, as an Occupational Therapist, you sound like a nurse I would love to work with. You may have had no filter with the prisoner, well I have the opposite, I have had no idea what to say to the few prisoners I’ve had to treat, especially since I can’t send them back to prison with any adaptive equipment!! LOL!!

On to your books, I loved reading Mr Darcy’s Promise and look forward to reading Pride and Persistance and To Refine Like Silver. The descriptions are so inviting and plan to get to them in the next year for a JAFF Challenge I joined on Goodreads.

Please keep up the great work in both you “day” and “night” jobs!!!

Jeanna

Thanks Erika! So fun that you are an OT! You will enjoy Pride and Persistence because Darcy goes through a bit of rehab for a broken foot. I’m sure we would have a blast working together! I like how you say I have no filter….I do have a problem forgetting to bring my filter with me. Occasionally it is completely broken. Sad but true! I can imagine that the prisons would love to get a splint in there for some reason…don’t even want to think about what they would do with it.

Dung Vu

Happy Thanksgiving!

It’s always a pleasure to get to know an author more. Thank you for sharing your process Jeanna! I’m glad you able to write P&P JAFF with such a busy schedule! I bet you have some interesting stories to share as a nurse… I volunteer and help out with my Community Emergency Response Team “CERT” and its always interesting to listen to first responder’s share stories about their line of work and what sticks out to them.

Looking forward to reading your novel. Thank you for hosting Sharon!

Jeanna

I know I sound busy, and I am, but if I make time for writing, all the other things fall into place. I have some great stories for sure! Pride and Persistence is a book where Darcy gets head injury and becomes quite difficult to handle for Elizabeth! All in the day and NIGHT of a Neurological ICU nurse. I bet CERT would be fun to work with. I am not an ED nurse however. Hope you get a chance to read the stories! Good luck in the giveaway!

Jennifer Redlarczyk

Jeanna, this was such a fun interview! Thanks to both you and Sharon for sharing. You are so funny which much be great for the patients. After all…Dr. Oz says that 15 minutes of laughter is worth 3 hours of sleep. That must be how you keep the midnight oil burning. Looking forward to more stories. Love, Jen Red

Jeanna

Thanks Jen! I don’t always count on humor as being one of my best qualities but I am glad every once in a while I can make people laugh. I’ll have to remember the laughter thing tonight when I am getting drowsy. But as To Refine Like Silver shares, gratitude and forgiveness have been the source of my midnight fuel. They are what helps me put one foot in front of the other so easily and I firmly believe this. Thanks for the lovely comment.

Jeanna

I know! I could never have written a scene more funny than that moment. My very vally girl flirty voice dubbed in could never be written so well as living the moment.
Thank you so much for your words of praise in both my writing and as a nurse. We definitely do not get thanked enough (nurses).

I should be able to post my next story in the next few months. I have concluded that it needs a few missing scenes and so I am going to focus on that for a little bit. I started Hope For Georgiana and am 4 chapters into it already but I may put it off to the side for a moment so I can prepare to publish Inspired by Grace, an original Regency Romance!

Thanks for commenting!

Brenda Bigbee

Jeanna is one of the rising stars in JAFF because she writes so well. Loved your gaff regarding the striped pajamas! heh heh I cannot imagine all the work that goes with being a nurse. God bless you and all nurses.

I have all yours books so I don’t need to be included in the drawing. I do want to say though that if they read just one book, the readers will want to read them all. Cannot wait until you start posting another story. Hugs, Brenda

Anji

First of all, Happy Thanksgiving to you both! As you’re aware, it’s not a celebration we have here in the UK, but I’ve come to realise how important it is for my friends from across the pond. Have a great day tomorrow.

Jeanna, I love your interview answers. Definitely a couple of laugh out loud ones there. As a health care professional myself (pharmacist), I’ve had more than one moment where “engage brain before opening mouth” just didn’t kick in, over the years. Where was that hole in the floor when I needed it? And I’ve also had a similar “forgetting pen and paper exist moment” when my iPad battery died. Fortunately, (or so I thought), I had my brand new smartphone with it’s inbuilt note taking feature so I was able to carry on note taking on my train journey. Hey ho!

By the way, I just finished reading Pride and Persistence. Really enjoyed it, Jeanna, thank you. Won’t say any more in case anyone else who comments hasn’t read it. Myself, I hate reading spoilers accidentally.

Jeanna

Ha Ha! So I’m not alone? SOOO good to know! Yes I was quite blonde during those moments. Perhaps I missed my true color. I am so glad you enjoyed the interview. What more can I say? I am rather entertaining!

Love that you read Pride and Persistence. It is a lighter book than To Refine Like Silver but in no way will you be disappointed in it either. Good luck in the giveaway! Thanks for the shout out! Love to hear people are enjoying the things I write.

Deborah

I enjoyed Jeanna’s interview and enjoyed getting to know more about her. To Refine Like Silver is a wonderful book. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. Please do not enter me in the give away as I already have both an eBook and paperback.

Jeanna

Thanks Deborah! I am so glad you liked it! It was a fun book to write for sure.

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