Most of my fiction has at least one thing that I put in purely to amuse myself and Shades of Milk and Honey is no exception. There are a number of Easter Eggs, if you know where to look.
Periodically, I’ll post one of these and an explanation for how it got there. Some of them may be amusing, others things may talk about Regency history, still others will just be odd. Since many of them also involve spoilers, they’ll be password protected to keep the unwary from stumbling into them.
To access any of the ones I post, you just need to know the name of the mare that Jane rides in Chapter 10.
My friend and Medieval scholar, Michael Livingston — for whom I named Captain Livingston — has written a post about the language in Shades of Milk and Honey. In it, he translates a few lines of the novel into Old English and Middle English Anyway, at one point Mary and I were talking about voicing and language […]
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There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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In the course of looking for something else, I’ve just found the original outline for Shades of Milk and Honey. I’ve mentioned before that the ending is vastly different from what I had originally planned. Basically, what happened was this. I began writing it for NaNoWriMo and somewhere around Chapter 10 began to feel that
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As a Christmas present, I’d like to give you a short story which takes place between the end of Shades of Milk and Honey and the beginning of Glamour in Glass. Unavoidably, it contains a spoiler so I’ve hidden the story below.
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December 16th is Jane Austen’s birthday. To celebrate that, I’m releasing Chapter two of Shades of Milk and Honey as a sample. You may download a pdf of Chapter 2 or an epub of Chapter 2 or read the sample chapter below. (Chapter One is here.)
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I started writing Shades of Milk and Honey for NaNoWriMo, in which one tries to write 50,000 words of a novel in a month. When I hit the finish line, I stopped to re-read what I’d written and decided to toss the last six chapters and rewrite, changing the plot in the process. This is
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If you are curious about my favorite scene in Shades of Milk and Honey, it’s posted at RT Reviews. They also asked me to tell them a bit about what went into writing the scene. Curious? Head over to read my Favorite Scene From Shades of Milk and Honey at RT Book Reviews. If you
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This short scene originally completed Chapter 2. It would begin on page 35 if it were still extant. The reason I cut the scene was that it placed too much emphasis on the Dunkirk’s visit. Since I needed the ball to be Chapter Three, one would have gone into the scene wondering about the Dunkirk’s
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In Chapter 12, Mr. Dunkirk is talking about his sister Beth. Mr. Dunkirk paused for a moment of reflection. Sighing a bit, he continued. “I was away at school, as was my brother, Richard. I like to think that I might have noticed if I had been home. She was always a dreamy child, given to romantic fantasies. Once,
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In Chapter Five, Melody is helping Jane demonstrate glamour. Pulling a fold of glamour from the ether, Melody stitched it across the bookcase with large, awkward threads. The fold was bulky and wrinkled; light careened across the gilt titles.
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Most of my fiction has at least one thing that I put in purely to amuse myself and Shades of Milk and Honey is no exception. There are a number of Easter Eggs, if you know where to look. Periodically, I’ll post one of these and an explanation for how it got there. Some of
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Edited to add:The following chapter is the rough draft I wrote for NaNoWriMo in 2006 and is posted in unedited form. The finished book came out in 2010 from Tor, edited by Liz Gorinsky. You may read the final, published version of the first chapter, if you’d like to compare the two.
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