I'd done all the corrections, it took me a while to get the formatting for Kindle done, but now it's finally out after wrestling with the size of the cover despite using their template. Life's fighting back right now.
Anyway, it's done.and now Firefox did an update and is making me re sign in to everything. It's driving me nuts.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CC9DD42B
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CC9DD42B
Hooray!
ReplyDeleteWell done, Sarah
Barbara
Nice! Good to see it!
ReplyDeletethanks both! yes, having the frustrations of trying to rebuild my electronic life this morning did not go down well on top of two days offline feeling lousy... but I was determined to get it out.
ReplyDeleteHooray, downloaded and looking forward to being comfortably tucked up in bed enjoying this story later this evening. Mary D
ReplyDeleteExcellent, enjoy!
DeleteYay! Looking forward to reading it! Thank you!
ReplyDelete- Naomi
Great! enjoy!
DeleteThis was amazing! I must confess, I had not read the Scarlet Pimpernel before. As soon as I got your series, I realized it wouldn't make sense until I read at least a few of the books; so, I got to work reading. What a delight! Thank you for introducing me to her stories! It's been a fun week, reading both the Baroness' works and yours. I have been happy to pass on both your name and Orczy's to a classmate who was looking to read more female authors. Thank you again for writing and sharing your wonderful stories!
Delete- Naomi
Oh I am delighted to pass on the Baroness, I love her works. I also read Lady Molly - and wrote a sequel - and the old man in the corner, about whom there are more stories than the rather grotty rehash I first got. I've read a few more of hers. She was contemporary too to Rafael Sabatini, whose Captain Blood stories are his best known, but the others are enjoyable.
DeleteI try to keep at least a part of the Baroness's voice for the Chauvelin books, and wander into purple periods evoking the classics and a bit of hyperbole, as a tribute. It has to be done; and i have fun with phrases like 'Aurora's rosy fingers had barely touched the dawn sky' and 'ah! those har ridans, greedy for death like some latter day Erinyes!'
....and I hope your friend also enjoys! I like a good action story even if it has romance in it.
DeleteI will have to also read Lady Molly! And then I need to finish Mansfield Park so that I can read your William Price series.
ReplyDeleteYour purple periods are always entertaining! What's the point of being a writer if you can't have fun with the language?
My friend was certainly excited about the recommendations (especially your Polish stories - we're both Orthodox, and it's rare to find fiction that even mentions the Orthodox, so I particularly enjoy your Eastern European stories!)
- Naomi
I think Lady Molly was the first ever female detective!
DeleteYou could probably read William Price with having read the spark notes synopsis; he appears on 6 pages in the book, lol!
thank you! I do enjoy myself with language.
I confess I don't go into depth with Orthodox characters because I don't know enough and don't want to offend . But I did research, and I hope I got what I've said right!
Oh, so I don't have to finish Mansfield Park in order to stay up to date with the William Price book? I confess I find it terribly dreary and difficult to keep reading, so going to enjoy myself with William Price would be a relief!
ReplyDeleteI don't know too much about Eastern Europe in the Hussar/post-Hussar period either, so I'm not sure I'd notice if any details are off, but I haven't noticed any glaring errors about Orthodoxy generally.
- Naomi
I confess, I found it dreary too! he's Fanny's brother, he's supposed to be 18, and Fanny was promised by the Crawford creep that he could get Will promoted to lieutenant - which is a lie! promotion to lt from Midshipman was purely on passing an exam on seamanship by a board of 5 captains, being over 19, and having served 6 years at sea. the latter two were often more in the breach than the observance; many a young man wrote '19' and put it in his shoe to be 'over' 19; and there were shenanigans over holding boys on the books when they were not there, but the exam was real, gruelling, and was what counted.
DeleteNor did I until I started researching! thanks - you'll let me know here, I hope, in drafts, if I make any gaffes.