Felicitous Tidings

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I have a new book out! Holiday at Pemberley, a Regency Pride & Prejudice romance with a paranormal spin. This is not a new story, but a second edition of my first published book, Death Takes a Holiday at Pemberley, with a new cover, new editing, and a new epilogue. The plot has not been altered, but I found a bit of repetition to remove and switched from 3rd person Point of View to 1st person, which I have come to prefer. In addition, I changed several scenes to the angel, Mr. Graham’s, POV, allowing me to provide more insight into his personality and motivation. Holiday at Pemberley is available in Kindle Unlimited and in paperback. (There is also an audiobook version of Death Takes a Holiday at Pemberley available at Audible with excellent narration by Christopher Jarvis.)

This story was inspired by several classic movies, The Bishop’s Wife from 1947, Heaven Can Wait from 1978, and Death Takes a Holiday from 1934. There is also an interesting remake of Death Takes a Holiday that came out in 1998, Meet Joe Black. Like all of my romances, this story has a very happy ending.

Holiday at Pemberley is available now at Amazon in Kindle Unlimited or to purchase as an E-Book or paperback. Here is the link: Holiday at Pemberley

In other news…

The Impoverished Orphan, my Pride & Prejudice Regency romance with a bit of mystery, has been selected for a Kindle Deal. For the month of May, the E-Book is on sale for $1.99 in USA/Canada Amazon stores. If you’d like to take advantage of this limited-time sale, here is the link: The Impoverished Orphan

My father devised this arch to have yellow roses on one side and red roses on the other. It’s pretty rare, though, that both colors are flowering at once. I pestered my husband into capturing this recent moment in time with Zoey and me where we had at least one of each.

These two pics are from a recent visit to the Santa Clara Valley Water District in San Jose, CA. I happened to go there for the first time because I am revising and expanding a short story called “The Pemberley Ravens,” and it occurred to me that though we have an abundance of crows, I had never seen a raven in San Jose, at least to my knowledge. They are quite similer to crows, but are bigger, and their calls are more like a “kraaa” sound, a throaty croak; whereas a crow’s cry sounds more like a harsh caw. I searched for places where ravens have been seen in San Jose, and this location came up.

We brought Zoey there, as the place is dog-friendly. There is a large percolation pond with a path going around it; it does not take long to walk all around the pond, maybe 20 minutes, but Zoey can’t be counted on to walk for very long these days, so we took the dog stroller.

My husband grew up nearby, and he pointed out a little island within the pond that he and his brothers may have swam to when they were kids. (Of course, this would have been against the rules, so they probably didn’t do it. LOL.) Alas, although we saw geese and an egret on our visit, we did not spot any ravens.

This is our house cat, Theo, who is a frequent source of amusement. My sister came to meet him recently bearing gifts, including this toy, and he immediately deemed her to be a good person!

Book Review: The Watchmaker: A Watch Can Talk

“The Watchmaker: A Watch Can Talk” by Ellen Khodakivska is a wonderfully fanciful and heart-wrenchingly poignant tale of an amazing magical ability passed on through a family of watchmakers in Italy. The journey for this family began in 1890, when Doriano Donelli met a mysterious older woman. She explained that she had no children to pass on this unique gift, the ability to communicate understand the language of clocks, although there were conditions.

You can see my entire 5-Star Goodreads review here: The Watchmaker

Thank you!

If you stuck through to the end, thank you so much for reading! I hope to have more newsletters in the future; not too often though, maybe one a month. Until then, stay safe and have a wonderful May!