The Gap Between Idea and Execution

I love ideas. I get lots of them every day (more if I write). However, I, being a physically average woman, cannot write them all down into ...

"Private Arrangements," by Sherry Thomas

Alternate Title: Absence (and Divorce!) Makes the Heart Grow Fonder The Chick: Phillipa Gilberte "Gigi" Saybrook, nee Rowland. Bo...

Re-Review: "An Offer from a Gentleman," by Julia Quinn

*New Feature!* Alternate Title: The Bridgertons - Now with 50% Fewer Daddy Issues! The Chick: Sophie Beckett. Turned into an unpaid servan...

"The Runaway Duke," by Julie Anne Long

The Chick: Rebecca Tremaine. In an attempt to catch her older, prettier, more proper sister in the middle of a tryst with a dissolute noble...

NaNoWriMo Update

One of the things I was most looking forward to this year was National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, for short. Why? Because it was som...

CLASSIC REVIEW: "Mansfield Park," Jane Austen

The Chick: Fanny Price. The daughter of poor, struggling parents, as a child she was taken away to live at Mansfield Park with the family o...

"Gilding the Lady," by Nicole Byrd

The Chick: Clarissa Fallon. Yanked from her upper class life as a child and dropped into the servant class by a Duplicitous Solicitor, she...