In prior blogs, I have often taken well-known idioms or proverbs and discussed them, and while I have not done so in recent years, I thought it would be interesting to post about such things occasionally. Therefore, I have chosen for my first such post to discuss the proverb “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” The roots of this saying go back to antiquity, to a Sanskrit treatise on statecraft: The king who is situated anywhere immediately on…
Today, on this episode of Miscellaneous Monday, I bring you the cover reveal for It Taught Me to Hope as promised. For any who missed it, you can go here for the post that includes the excerpt and description. In this cover, you might see a few subtle differences from what I usually try to portray in the covers I commission. For one, if you noticed that Darcy appears a little more . . . well, shall we say rugged than…
As I have a new release approaching, I thought it would be a good idea to offer a bit of a sample of what is coming down the line. This is a full length novel and it examines what might have happened had several things fallen into place leaving Elizabeth in control of Longbourn and still single when Darcy returns to Hertfordshire years later. I will have a cover reveal post later this week or perhaps early next week. Until…
I am not a morning person, though my body always tries to tell me that I am. When I was working for a big corporation that shall go unnamed, I had a friend who had worked shifts for many years and he used to speak about how he had difficulty sleeping. I sympathized, but I did not have any experience, so I could not do much empathizing with him. Somehow in the years since, my own sleeping has suffered to…