Janet did another amazing job on your cover capturing the essence of the story, the times, those who answer the call, and destruction of war! Looking forward to owning the paperback!
Intriguing excerpt, and I’m eagerly looking forward to reading the book. I really appreciate D&E stories that take place outside of the Regency era. Thank you for your always excellent writing!
this is a great cover. It has the elements of a WW II novel cover, but also the elements of the novel and, I think someone mentioned already, the feel of ghost. I have read many excerpts, but I am waiting now for the full novel. Thank goodness it is almost here.
I look forward to your thoughts on the book. I wanted to place ODC within the World War II espionage genre...but also with the romance being real and developing organically. Like the women in real life SOE, Elizabeth is committed and willing to die for her country. She ignores the convention of the home front girl and shows her special character. Yet, like women --and men--of the time, she craves love and companionship.
The cover is amazing. It definitely will draw readers in and the colors also are evocative of things ghostly. I love the witty repartee with Darcy and Elizabeth. It is a hallmark of the originals and you have maintained and enhanced it here. It’s also interesting to see the interactions between ODC in a different time setting where proprieties, while important, are not the reputation ending events of earlier eras.
As I wrote, I worked to find the golden thread linking the Elizabeth and Darcy of 1810 to the couple in 1944. How would they present in the midst of the cataclysm that was Total War? One of the centralities of Austen was that heer characters were relatable. Darcy's sense of propriety was a buy-in to an artificial construct which Austen stripped away with the "gentleman, gentleman's daughter" formulation. Thus, the 1940s coule were no different from millions of others enduring the same thing.
Janet did another amazing job on your cover capturing the essence of the story, the times, those who answer the call, and destruction of war! Looking forward to owning the paperback!
CinC...thank you. Janet captured the story which I hope you will enjoy. Paperback in formatting now.
What a wonderful cover and ambitious project! I cannot wait to read it!
I, too, love the cover. Can't wait to read it.
The book publishes on June 30.
Intriguing excerpt, and I’m eagerly looking forward to reading the book. I really appreciate D&E stories that take place outside of the Regency era. Thank you for your always excellent writing!
Glad you like my little speculations. I frequently begin my work with the question "What if Darcy and Elizabeth were...".
Nice cover and of course, nice writing! Especially noted "oppression has always been a tyrant’s currency." which brings us back to today's world!
The book found its truth in Elizabeth's anger at the Nazis and their opportunistic fascuist hangers-on. That it remains relevant is saddening.
Love the cover & so glad it will be an audiobook too!
Ben's performance will enhance the story.
Great cover! Love the excerpt! What a position they were both in!
Things can get fraught in Occupied France in 1944. Glad you like the cover.
this is a great cover. It has the elements of a WW II novel cover, but also the elements of the novel and, I think someone mentioned already, the feel of ghost. I have read many excerpts, but I am waiting now for the full novel. Thank goodness it is almost here.
I look forward to your thoughts on the book. I wanted to place ODC within the World War II espionage genre...but also with the romance being real and developing organically. Like the women in real life SOE, Elizabeth is committed and willing to die for her country. She ignores the convention of the home front girl and shows her special character. Yet, like women --and men--of the time, she craves love and companionship.
The cover is amazing. It definitely will draw readers in and the colors also are evocative of things ghostly. I love the witty repartee with Darcy and Elizabeth. It is a hallmark of the originals and you have maintained and enhanced it here. It’s also interesting to see the interactions between ODC in a different time setting where proprieties, while important, are not the reputation ending events of earlier eras.
As I wrote, I worked to find the golden thread linking the Elizabeth and Darcy of 1810 to the couple in 1944. How would they present in the midst of the cataclysm that was Total War? One of the centralities of Austen was that heer characters were relatable. Darcy's sense of propriety was a buy-in to an artificial construct which Austen stripped away with the "gentleman, gentleman's daughter" formulation. Thus, the 1940s coule were no different from millions of others enduring the same thing.