Readers review The Unexpected Miss Bennet

Here are a few kind words that reviewers and readers have said about The Unexpected Miss Bennet.   From a commenter on Lauren Willig’s blog: I’m reading a new release through for the second time for the pure joy of it: The Unexpected Miss Bennet by Patrice Sarath. It is one of the very BEST P & P sequels I have ever read and my review will be posted on Nov 30th on a neighboring Read more…

Author with book

I  was chatting with my father-in-law who was here for Thanksgiving and we were talking about books and writing. He didn’t ask the question, “why do you write?” but the answer came  up anyway. “It’s a little bit of immortality,” I said. (Note: Children are too of course; my friend calls her son her genetic legacy, and it’s true — that lure to reproduce has as much to do with immortality on a cellular level Read more…

Anne McCaffrey — RIP

I just don’t know what to say. I am utterly bereft. One of my heroes, my major influence, Anne McCaffrey, has passed away.In high school my friends and I read her Pern series over and over. We read The Ship Who books, the short stories (there’s a wonderful collection called Get Off The Unicorn that I still have somewhere). She wrote mainstream books too, about horses no less! I read everything I could get my Read more…