Thank you so much. I am enjoying shaping the characters to be three-dimensional representations. The audiobook will come. I'm looking to do a Kickstarter campaign to try to sign one of the top performers, so that may take a moment. I'm targeting to finish the book in April (if I can keep the story developing at the pace I like). The audiobook will rise from final-final. That means even if the book releases in June, the audio may appear in July, perfect for summertime listening!
Me, too! Between war adventures and the "Girls" romances, I am enjoying memories of life 80 years ago (that's scary...I was born 8 years after the end of the war. Thank you...and I hope you enjoy the book.
Wow, Don. I look forward to this book. I don't disdain the concept of modern variations but I am fussy about what the characters' circumstances are. Yours are perfect. As always you have done your research and built your chara terms with depth. I am intrigued by your snippet and look forward to June (and to any snippets that you choose to share before then)
Tune in on March 8. I will offer a little more. I try to stay true to JA...Elizabeth misreads Darcy. Darcy disdains Elizabeth. Richard is Richard--although he will suffer from love's loss (see Wardrobe #6 for the parallel). There will be tension and stress. Trying to take the underlying framework and place it within Northwestern France in the Spring and summer of 1944.
I, also, am not a modern P&P fan but this one I would read. This isn't one of those light romance novels and this chapter caught me and now I want to read more. WWII novels draw me in and I can imagine Elizabeth serving this way,
Chapter 3, BTW is when Elizabeth explains WHY she joined the WAAF.
“I need to know why you want this.” He waved his hand around the nondescript office to embrace the physical and emotional aspects.
Her voice, barely above a whisper, gave him a satisfying answer, even though one hardly expected such words to pass a young woman’s lips. “The Nazis were all the reason I needed. I wanted to kill Nazis. I wanted to erase them from the face of the Earth!
“I will do whatever I can to hasten the day the last Nazi bastards tap their heels in the Tyburn Hornpipe.”
The colonel leaned forward. “Not adventure? Not ‘doing your bit?’ ”
I'm not a big modern P&P reader, but you might have convinced me with this one! Btw, The Longbourn Quarantine was (and still is) one of my favorite variations.
I wan t to work in as many different aspects of writing as I can. The Wardrobe was Fantasy/Speculative Fiction. Lessers and Betters explored the same event from two different points of view. Quarantine was my exploration of the lockdown. IPS explored social roles. TSR was adventure. IWH was political.
I'm in, can't wait to read the novel
This is wonderful. I'm totally looking forward to it. Hope there is an audiobook for it! Love the characters!
Thank you so much. I am enjoying shaping the characters to be three-dimensional representations. The audiobook will come. I'm looking to do a Kickstarter campaign to try to sign one of the top performers, so that may take a moment. I'm targeting to finish the book in April (if I can keep the story developing at the pace I like). The audiobook will rise from final-final. That means even if the book releases in June, the audio may appear in July, perfect for summertime listening!
I’m looking forward to this book as I especially enjoy WW2 stories
Me, too! Between war adventures and the "Girls" romances, I am enjoying memories of life 80 years ago (that's scary...I was born 8 years after the end of the war. Thank you...and I hope you enjoy the book.
Wow, Don. I look forward to this book. I don't disdain the concept of modern variations but I am fussy about what the characters' circumstances are. Yours are perfect. As always you have done your research and built your chara terms with depth. I am intrigued by your snippet and look forward to June (and to any snippets that you choose to share before then)
Tune in on March 8. I will offer a little more. I try to stay true to JA...Elizabeth misreads Darcy. Darcy disdains Elizabeth. Richard is Richard--although he will suffer from love's loss (see Wardrobe #6 for the parallel). There will be tension and stress. Trying to take the underlying framework and place it within Northwestern France in the Spring and summer of 1944.
I, also, am not a modern P&P fan but this one I would read. This isn't one of those light romance novels and this chapter caught me and now I want to read more. WWII novels draw me in and I can imagine Elizabeth serving this way,
Chapter 3, BTW is when Elizabeth explains WHY she joined the WAAF.
“I need to know why you want this.” He waved his hand around the nondescript office to embrace the physical and emotional aspects.
Her voice, barely above a whisper, gave him a satisfying answer, even though one hardly expected such words to pass a young woman’s lips. “The Nazis were all the reason I needed. I wanted to kill Nazis. I wanted to erase them from the face of the Earth!
“I will do whatever I can to hasten the day the last Nazi bastards tap their heels in the Tyburn Hornpipe.”
The colonel leaned forward. “Not adventure? Not ‘doing your bit?’ ”
I'm not a big modern P&P reader, but you might have convinced me with this one! Btw, The Longbourn Quarantine was (and still is) one of my favorite variations.
This is modern in the sense in that it was set 80 years ago (that's frightening). Thank you for your nod about TLQ!
Well, the 80's feels like 20 year ago, so....
Grin
This sounds good! One of my favorite "modern" was the WW1 Darcy's Hope set by Ginger Monette.
I wan t to work in as many different aspects of writing as I can. The Wardrobe was Fantasy/Speculative Fiction. Lessers and Betters explored the same event from two different points of view. Quarantine was my exploration of the lockdown. IPS explored social roles. TSR was adventure. IWH was political.