Novel the Third Cover

In Jane Austen’s ‘Sense and Sensibility’, calm Elinor is an artist and passionate Marianne is a musician. Not that I disagree in any way to this choice, I sometimes thought that this could have been reversed, with the logical sensible sister being the musician and the emotional sensibility sister being the artist. ‘Paint and Piano’…

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Novel the Second Cover

Originally written as the second part of my two part novel, ‘Bonnets and Aprons’, Mrs. Rutherford tells the continuing story of Fionna, who finally gets married and then joins the great migratory expansion west, ending in the Salt Lake basin territory. When told just a little of the story to help inspire the cover idea,…

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Novel the First Cover

When I first talked to my daughter Brina about art for the cover of this first one, I suggested a prairie bonnet plus apron look, with no visible clue to hair color or facial features of the young lady. I wanted the reader to be left free to imagine their own image of what the…

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If I only had one year left to live…

I’ve many times heard that if someone was told that they only had months or a year to live, ‘what would they do with their time left on earth?’, and the answers are often, ‘Go to Paris’ or ‘Europe’ or ‘skydive’ and so forth. It has seemed to me that the focus is generally to…

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Super Puppy Aikido Redirection Child Training

By the time my second baby was almost a twinkle in my eye, because we were shopping for just the right puppy for our eldest, I read a book called ‘Super Puppy’ to help us find just the right puppy (I can’t recall who wrote that particular book – about 27 years ago, and it…

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A New Arrival

After far too long, my seventh novel is finally done and available for perusal! Some people have been asking me what this one is about (as I’ve been working on it) and my quick response has been, ‘A sort of Emma meets Darcy’, or, ‘What if Elizabeth said yes instead of no to Darcy so…

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