My Ambitious Plan Continues

December 2008 - It took a little over a week to work out what would happen in the first three books. I still had the “how” to work out. The struggle with titles continued. I tried using the sister’s names: Augusta’s Anguish, Charlotte’s Charade, and Muriel’s Muddles.

No. No. No.

I kept the Gentlemen’s titles which kept me on track because it gave me some sense of those men. While I worked on Augusta’s book, learning about the people, the family members, the neighbors, the townspeople, it occurred to me that the premise of my idea, about limiting Augusta’s London Season exposure, came from Aunt Penny. She had grown up in a family of legendary beauties.

They were the Darling sisters: Mary, Sarah, and Penelope. Mary, the eldest, had married a baron , Sarah, the most beautiful sister, a duke, and Penny, the dutiful daughter had an arranged marriage. Her husband, who was much older than she, passed away a year or so after they wed—about the time her sister Sarah died. Penny then removed to Faraday Hall and helped raise her nieces.

I wonder . . . now that I’m marrying off the three sisters. What happens to Penny? Then it occurs to me . . . I have a duke whose daughters have gone off to marry, what happens to him?

I’m thinking this might be a FIVE book series?

To Blog or Not to Blog . . . that is the question

A new book, a new series, and a not so new author. I’ve never written a series before. Will I like it? Would I do it again?

My only blogging experience is my two week Maui Mini Blog I do every year. Do I want to commit to a Blog? It’s a lot of work.

While reading, rereading the galleys for the first book I realized how much I enjoyed it . . . them, the Worth sisters, and the other characters in the story. Then I wondered if anyone else wanted to find out more about them, details that hadn't made it into the stories, facts only I would know about these people, and how all of this came about.

That is where the idea for this blog came from. The Blog name: The Citrus Parlor? It's the small, cozy parlor at the rear of Faraday Hall where the Worth sisters retire in the evenings. I thought it might be a nice place to meet for news, gossip, discussion, and tea. Unfortunately it’s only virtual tea.