Yours Affectionately, Jane Austen

Sally Smith O'Rourke

វិច្ឆិកា 2012 · Victorian Essence Press

អំពីសៀវភៅ​អេឡិចត្រូនិកនេះ

Was Mr. Darcy real? Is time travel really possible? For
pragmatic Manhattan artist Eliza Knight the answer to both questions is
absolutely, Yes! And Fitzwilliam Darcy of Pemberley Farms, Virginia is the
reason why!

 

His tale of love and romance in Regency England leaves Eliza
in no doubt that Fitz Darcy is the embodiment of Jane Austen’s legendary hero.
And she’s falling in love with him. But can the man who loved the inimitable Jane
Austen ever love average, ordinary Eliza Knight?

 

Eliza’s doubts grow, perhaps out of proportion, when things
start to happen in the quiet hamlet of Chawton, England; events that could
change everything. Will the beloved author become the wedge that divides Fitz
and Eliza or the tie that binds them?

 

អំពី​អ្នកនិពន្ធ

“Where shall I begin? Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?” (J.A. June 15, 1808)

That I reside in a small Victorian village in southern California; a mere two miles from my place of employment, a local hospital where I spend most daylight hours as a scrub nurse in the operating room.

That I am a native Californian, having been born in Glendale, and that I have spent most of my life here with a relatively short span of years in Reno, Nevada where I attended school. Returning after graduation I have remain in sunny SoCal.

That I was widowed some time ago. That I have the very domestic hobbies of sewing, cooking, baking, candy making and cake decorating. Oh, I write, too. Spending time with my nieces and nephews (great nieces and nephews as well), step-children and my grandchildren keeps a smile on my face.

That Mike, my late husband and teacher, taught me that writing has to be treated like a job so every day no matter how tired I am I edit, research and/or write one or more projects.

 

That Yours Affectionately, Jane Austen is my first solo effort (my other three having been collaborations with Mike) and I am happy to say is being received with some acclaim and enjoyment by readers.

That my next project might be a story of reincarnation in Pasadena, CA  or a haunted house in San Francisco then again it may be a fairy story in Pebble Beach, CA and of course the possibility of a follow up to Yours Affectionately, Jane Austen is ever present.

That many stories are running around in my head and often colliding but I untangle them, pick up the debris and continue on.

And so you have a few of my nothings.