Some minor bits to share regarding Mr. and Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy. These are things that I have found interesting and may be beneficial to some of you, or merely musings and information that I want to talk about! First off, my dear friend Seli reported to me that she saw Mr....
It is Thursday, so we are midway through my Launch Fete week! This has been so much fun! Many of you have stepped up and gotten involved, hopefully being marvelously entertained in the process. But I know there are loads more of you lurking. What are you waiting for? Remember,...
My daughter and I drove to the big city where the Barnes & Noble store is, and there my sweet baby sat! Mr. and Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy ~ Two Shall Become One sitting pretty as you please on the Noteworthy Paperbacks table. There were only 3 copies, the larger shipments...
Isn’t it marvelous that our world seems to get smaller every day? My wonderful editor, Deb Werksman, was invited to speak at a meeting of the San Francisco area Romance Writer’s of America group over the Valentine’s weekend. In turn, she invited me and another fellow Sourcebooks author (the wonderful...
Copies by the hundreds are whizzing their way through the mail and shipping trucks to eager readers across the globe *so I hope* But, for the sake of maintaining focus and having fun, I am going to stick with the March 1 date. So is my Sourcebooks’ publicist, the efficient...
Mr. and Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy ~ Two Shall Become One still has an official release date of March 1. But, as I have written before, these dates are estimates in the publishing world. It sounds better to have an exact date in a press release rather than saying, “Somewhere in...
Happy Valentines to me!! I sit here in my hotel in Berkeley after a wonderful day visiting with my editor and a fellow author (More on that later, I promise!), sipping on the espresso and munching the pastry that my darling husband walked to get for us, with only a...
The reports of sightings are flowing in fast and furious. Friends, longtime fans, and new readers from Florida, Alabama, Ohio, Montana, New York, California, and many more states have sent me emails confirming the presence of Mr. and Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy ~ Two Shall Become One on Target shelves. Much...
Here she is! The book, I mean, being held in my hot hands FINALLY!!! What an amazing day. The UPS man came on Tuesday, just as I was leaving for work. I had no time to celebrate with my family, but all my work buddies were thrilled! It is...
Journeys Beyond Pemberley has taken the first steps toward book shelves near you come September of 2009, and naturally I will be sharing the process with all of you! A most joyous early Christmas present arrived from my fabulous editor Deb Werksman on the 22 nd – an email, quoted...
Once again it was my turn to post over at the fabulous Casablanca Authors’ Blog. In keeping with a holiday theme, I decided to post a Christmas excerpt from ‘Mr. and Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy ~ Two Shall Become One.’ The chapters that cover the Darcys’ first Christmas as a married...
My editor emailed me today with this fabulous news! Target – as in the corporation of department stores that are everywhere in the US – wants my novel! Here is Deb’s exact message: Target wants Mr. & Mrs. for their February planogram, which means the book has to close to...
Please tell me you think it is divine!?! I am so in love! The Sourcebooks design crew under the urgings of the amazing Deb Werksman searched long and hard to find a Mr. Darcy more masculine than the previous ‘sweet’ version offered. I think they did a remarkable job. Is...
Not to purposely try to confuse you, but this group of NEW passages are from the edited copy of “Mr. and Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy ~ Two Shall Become One” that will be arriving next March. In a continuation from the blog post on September 12, I am sharing some of the...
