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WIP Somewhere Called Home

Names, Please, Readers?

Hello my lovely reader! I wondered if you could help me? I need to know your favourite historical Scottish names… to use in my upcoming Historical Fiction novel, nay, a series, starting in the time of the Highland Clearances in 1815 and going through the 1860s. I need a heroine name and a hero name. …

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Somewhere Like Home: Forgotten

“Here, ye read it, ye wasted enough time learnin’ t’ read,” she grumbled. Sofia took a deep breath, biting back a reminder that she was taught to read by the same man her mother had refused, but now was not the time. Her eyes raced down the page, stopping at the laird’s seal at the …

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Novellas: Two Sent and to be Released Soon!

Novellas… My latest of my two novellas will come out in the Once Upon a Vet School series! It’s just been sent to the group for inclusion in the Christmas Wishes boxed set! I’ll keep you posted about release dates, title, and more! I can’t tell you yet, sorry, it’s still a secret!   BUT… …

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Somewhere Like Home: An Unhappy Event

“I don’t want to be tacksman.” Robert enunciated every word, his voice rising. “I don’t want your job, bowing obsequiously to the stinking laird and his despicable sons. I won’t do it.” “Ye will.” Lytton’s voice, steel-edged. “I won’t. Don’t you see, Da? Soon there won’t be any tacksmen. Year by year, they’re being replaced …

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My WIP Wednesday: Sofia’s Images

My WIP Wednesday is preparing the collateral information for my Bluestocking Belles‘ novella that’s in its third and fourth beta read with other Belles right now! It’s shaping up well. This novella will be released in the Bluestocking Belles’ Holiday Boxed set and six months later, I’m hoping to release the full novel. Can’t wait …

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WIP Somewhere Called Home

WIP Wednesday: Somewhere Called Home Prologue

This week my WIP is my VERY SHORT novella (can you hear me screaming from here?) for the Bluestocking Belles’ Christmas Boxed set. I’m editing my contribution, entitled Somewhere Called Home. Actually, I’d appreciate your help! I’m thinking of calling this novella Somewhere Like Home and the full novel later will be called Somewhere Called …

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WIP Somewhere Called Home

WIP Wednesday: Somewhere Called Home

Hi all! Submitted Once Upon a Vet School #6: Fifty Miles at a Breath yesterday and today, I’m stuck into Somewhere Called Home, a novella about the early life of Scotty from A Long Trail Rolling in the Highlands of Scotland that I’ve already researched. It’s due… next week. Thankfully it’s meant to be short… …

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