Welcome to our 2022 Christmas Anthology

What a pleasure it is to be included in Cristy Hulsz’s lovely Christmas sampler for 2022

Best of all, it’s FREE for you to download.

To access the PDF, click the link to visit the Cris Translates website. The download button is at the bottom.

Cris Translates

This year has had its good and bad moments, but I would like to think more about all the positive things this year has left us with, the opportunities, the joys and the blessings.

I started this project three years ago, as a way to thank the readers and to promote the authors of Jane Austen Fan Fiction, not only in their original language but also as their first approach to the Spanish-speaking public.

I feel extremely fortunate for all those who have collaborated in this anthology, because now there are 13 stories that we bring to you thanks to the contribution of the authors, as well as all those who have worked for several months to get to this day.

It is also a great pleasure to announce that we will have some physical copies in English and Spanish that will be raffled in January when we have the…

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It’s summer break. Time for a new Work-In-Progress novel!

After an "interesting" school year (thanks to Covid adjustments), I am finally free to work on a new Darcy and Elizabeth Regency romance. I'm gunning for an autumn release. In this one, Mr. Darcy is delightfully disagreeable, and poor Elizabeth finds herself falling for him. Take that, Mr. Wickham! She thinks Darcy is an ogre …

The risk of showing mercy

I blog Saturdays at Jane Started It. Here is today's offering.

In It to WIN It—Preparing for NANOWRIMO (National Novel Writing Month)

After almost 40 days of daily blogging, last night I hit the wall and faltered. Today it’s Kristen Lamb to the rescue. This is just what I need to hear. Enjoy!

Kristen Lamb's Blog

Today we are going to talk about a GLORIOUS time of year—NANOWRIMO—which stands for National Novel Writing Month. It is meant to support creativity and encourage those who say they want to be authors to give it a go and write a novel (50,000 words) in a month. Notice the challenge is 50,000 words. No one said they had to be good words. Or publishable words. Or polished words. Or edited words.

This is actually why I believe Nanowrimo is very useful for all levels of writers. It trains out perfectionism. No half-finished novel ever made the NY Times best-seller list, but some crappy slightly-less-than-glorious novels have. The biggest threats to your finished novel (and mine) are Mr. It Must Be Perfect and his evil sister Editina.

Preparing for Nanowrimo

Have Fun and Fuel Up

Anyway, whoever chose November as National Novel Writing Month was seriously brilliant, because…

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Sun, Surf, and … the Piano Guys!

It's another gloomy winter day here in the Pacific Northwest. Which makes this music video from The Piano Guys so delightful. Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzF_y039slk&feature=g-all-u&context=G2ba75f4FAAAAAAAAAAA

Stuck? Demoralized? Here’s help and hope from Barbara Baig

"If we taught children to walk the way we teach them to write, they'd never learn." (Mark Twain) Some of you know that I have added a high school writing class to my teaching load this year. I have seven bright, motivated young men twice a week. I tell you what, these guys keep me …

My Inner Scardy Cat

It's Wednesday, and Sir Walter is up to his usual tricks at Jane Started It! (my other blog). This week he's giving advice on how to silence a bashful writer, one who has dared to bring up (at a party) the fact that she is, in fact, a published author. Sir Walter offers My Dear …

Pause …

It's been an odd week. Has the "Get-Your-Game-On" autumn hustle caught up with everybody? Because it's quiet. Not a serene, contemplative quiet. A tired out, can't-take-another-step quiet. Around here students and teachers are succumbing to colds. Very few are showing up at the gym. There are maybe three posts on my (usually busy) writing group's …

Death be not Proud

DEATH be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not soe, For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow, Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill mee. From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee, Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow, And soonest …

It takes a cat …

Ah yes. The feline master of illusion! Hey, illusion is what I do as a novelist, isn't it? "It's only a story." Or is it? It's Saturday, my all-out writing day, and I'm hip deep in transferring my "wall" of note cards into a cohesive story arc. More on this later! This pic is from …