SPOTLIGHT ON ... A LITTLE WHIMSICAL IN HIS CIVILITIES BY J. MARIE CROFT - EXCERPT & GIVEAWAY

Hello there! I'm really glad to open J. Marie Croft's Blog Tour for the release of her new humorous novella! Good luck to her and great success to her new book and, of course, good luck to all of you in the giveaway below. Don't forget to read and enjoy the excerpt before you try your luck! 

MG

Excerpt

It’s the third evening following Darcy and Bingley’s return to Hertfordshire,

and they’re attending another Meryton assembly in the hopes of winning their hearts’ desires.

For Darcy, old habits die hard.

Already on tenterhooks and made increasingly impatient while awaiting the Bennets’ arrival,

he has become a tad testy, to put it mildly.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JANE AUSTEN! J. MARIE CROFT, WRITER

Life Without Austen

by J. Marie Croft

Imagine a time-traveler went back and changed a family tree

And prevented George Austen’s marriage to Cassandra Leigh.

They say we cannot possibly pine for something we never had.

If, in 1775, Jane Austen wasn’t born, we’d probably not be sad.

Her novels would be unwritten, and you know ignorance is bliss.

Generations would be utterly clueless and Emma just a miss.

LOVE AT FIRST SLIGHT - BLOG TOUR & GIVEAWAY: J. MARIE CROFT, THE LOVE AT FIRST SLIGHT BOOK CLUB.

Today we are at the Hunsford parsonage to discuss Pride and Prejudice with several characters from Love at First Slight. We are just waiting for Miss Collins and her houseguest to arrange refreshments and for three young ladies to arrive from Rosings Park. 

Before everyone assembles here in the parlour, it behooves me to apologize in advance. These dramatis personae are, after all, characters; and I cannot vouch for their conduct. More than anyone, I know how unpredictable their behaviour can be; and althou –

From the vicinity of the kitchen, voices are heard loud and clear. 

Miss Collins: “That cannot be an option. Even if such potation were befitting the occasion, my brother does not condone the imbibition of fortified wine by the fair sex, as he calls us. Good Christians should be filled with the Spirit, not spirits.  We do not stock alcoholic beverages here.”