Category: Publishing

The story behind The Passions of Dr. Darcy

As everyone who has followed the Darcy Saga and my blog knows, Dr. George Darcy was never meant to be a main character. He wasn’t meant to even stay in England for very long! Needless to say, he had a very different idea on that subject, and being the pushy...

Sharon’s Christmas 2012 Giveaway

It’s Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas! In truth, I live in the Central Valley of California so it never looks much like the “traditional” vision of Christmas – no snow or frozen ponds – but the holiday lights are up and we bought our tree today. And, much...

An updated cover

I am very, very excited to unveil the new, vastly improved version of the cover for The Passions of Dr. Darcy. Yippee!! The designers at Sourcebooks listened to the feedback offered by me and many of you when I showed the original version last month on Facebook. Those of you...

The Passions of Dr. Darcy is complete!

Update on the happenings of Sharon Lathan and her next book: The Passions of Dr. Darcy is DONE! Yes! I typed “The End” well ahead of my deadline, compiled the whole manuscript into the proper format, and then sent it off to my editor Deb Werksman at Sourcebooks on June...

Miss Darcy Falls in Love is released!

Miss Darcy Falls in Love is officially released! I have been anxiously awaiting this day forever, it seems. Way back when I was writing In the Arms of Mr. Darcy I was suddenly inspired by a certain gentleman and in a flash the future I had long desired for Georgiana...

Introducing “book plates” and bookmarks for YOU!

Way in the back recesses of my mind this is something I have wanted to offer to my fans for a long time but, well, I shall be honest and admit that I simply hadn’t taken the time to figure out how to go about it! Ends up it was...

Sourcebooks Fall 2011 catalog

The catalog sent to the buyers of books has been released. This is always a fun time for me. I love seeing how my novels are advertised and what else Sourcebooks Inc. has in the works. Their line of Austen fiction, historical fiction, and romance continue to grow stronger by...

Miss Darcy Falls in Love ARC cover

My fun in Massachusetts and New York is over, the RWA National Conference has passed, and I am already on to the next adventure – this one recuperating from knee surgery to mend a torn meniscus that has been troubling me for years! So it is all good, despite the...

The Trouble With Mr. Darcy is officially released!

The Trouble With Mr. Darcy – Darcy Saga Volume 5 – is HERE! Today is the day noted in the databanks for “release date” and since we love to mark our lives by dates I’ll go with April 1, 2011. Whoot!! I am thrilled to start the PARTY! I am...

What’s Next?

The Trouble With Mr. Darcy has not celebrated its official release – that will begin on this upcoming Friday and will be AWESOME fun so be sure to come back then – but since the pre-orders arrived and were shipped out very early this time around many folks have read...

Early Arrivals!

Stranger things have happened, I suppose, but imagine my surprise to hear from so many happy fans that The Trouble With Mr. Darcy is available early! WOW! I have had a couple of my novels trickle out a few days before the “official” release date but never nearly 3 weeks...

One month from today!

THE TROUBLE WITH MR. DARCY will be released in exactly one month! How awesome is that? Here are a couple photos of the advanced reader copy looking gorgeous in my office…..  

Sourcebooks Spring 2011 Trade Catalog

It is always cool to view the lovely spread of my novels, and all the other Austen and Casablanca novels, in the Sourcebooks Catalogs. This year is no exception! Another fabulous job by the design folks who put these things together. Below I have the images from my portions. Click...

RWA National Memories

Whew! It has been a crazy 2 weeks! Actually, more than 2 weeks since we left home on the 18th of July and did not get back home until August 2. I honestly do not know where to begin in recounting my adventures. We did so much as a family...

Launch Week #4 Roundup!

This is it – my final week of official promotional activities for My Dearest Mr. Darcy. I am rather sad to see all the fun-filled blogs and interviews coming to an end. But, on the other hand, I am already working on edits for my upcoming novels so it will...