'The alternative bride' a Regency romp, is now available for sale!
I intend to post draft copies of my work here for my fans to comment, and will remove all but the first chapter when I publish. All rights reserved, no copying of any portion of my writing without permission. Copyright Sarah J Waldock.
Congratulations! It's a cute story, I look forward to rereading it!
ReplyDeletethank you, I hope you enjoy as much reading it over!
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DeleteI thoroughly enjoyed this story in its final form. And the cover is excellent again. I wonder if Cousin Christopher will have an adventure when he takes over running the big house and estate? (Just in case you don’t have enough potential stories jostling for muse time.)
ReplyDeleteHaha well, that's to think on! I'm toying with a Georgian for Christmas - that's for you readers here, it won't be able to be published for christmas - maybe a novella, and put together some more for next year. I am hoping to have licked the second name book into touch by close of play tomorrow. I am going like a train on it. I am wondering if I should have gone into Zulu and Xhosa and Boer names, or First Nation tribes at all, but I am hoping to be talked out of it.
DeleteIf it were me, I would crack on with your current ambit and consider the wider geographical names as an addendum in due course, if and when you have the time and enthusiasm. (Will that do?)
Deletethat's a nice sophistry. Thank you! I won't finish today, I came over a bit unnecessary and slept all afternoon, but I am not too disheartened.
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I hope you are feeling better today. By the way, could you please explain the idiom “come over (all/a bit) unnecessary”? I’ve been noticing it in your writing but not elsewhere. Agnes (on the phone)
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Sorry about my stupidity. 'A bit unnecessary' is also rendered at times 'come over all queer' and refers to either finding oneself rendered slightly feverish and/or giddy from being unwell, OR rendered a trifle hysterical and unsure how to respond as a result of a shock or very surprising [usually, but not always, unpleasant] experience. A more upper class renditiion of a sporting kind would be 'it quite knocked me for six' [a cricketting reference] or 'I found myself quite overcome' or 'my nerves were fully overset,' which is a somewhat lukewarm rendition.
ReplyDeleteI gathered the meanig form the various contexts, I just couldn't make any sense of "unnecessary" meaning "strange" or "physically and/or emotionally unstable" (and neither could I understand "coming over" as "feeling oneself so-and-so"). Language is weird, but, well, there is method to its madness usually.
DeleteOn another note, I'm glad to hear about your plans for a Georgian Christmas story! Can't wait... If I am not mistaken this should be Stir-up Sunday so Christmas may be felt in the air already (as a more cynical approach, Black Friday madness does also bring Christmas gift purchases to one's notice). Be that as it may, I am thinking about all the Regency Christmas stories I own and might reread soon.
You're making me think about it; it's just a phrase which is part of the idiom I know. And I haven't got a clue. I suppose 'unnecessary' is equating here with 'not of any use to anyone'? 'coming over' is having the feeling come upon one , feeling the feeling begin
DeleteI am into chapter two, I think it may be a novella