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Book Fair

Veronica Mahara

Hello Everyone!

I hope this finds you well.

Last month I attended the Olympic Peninsula Local Author’s book fair. It was my first author event even though I’ve been writing for 16 years and have been published for seven! I guess I’m a late bloomer when it comes to advertising myself.

It was a lot of fun and very successful. I’ve been invited back next year and I’m looking forward to it!

This picture was taken early on and I rearranged my table a few times to fit my books and everything else. I was told my prices were too low so I changed my board just before opening. I got a lot of advice and even gave some too. The authors I met were at different stages of their writing journey which made the event very interesting. I hope to do more in the future in the Pacific Northwest, and perhaps beyond 🙂

Meanwhile I’m working on my fifth book. This one is the story of Lillian Moore, Frederick’s mother. She shows up in my first book, Traveled Hearts as the matriarch of his small family. The tension between mother and son and her husband Charles had my creativity flowing. I found her to be a character I just had to write about! Her story is taking me on a journey and I love it. I will reveal more in the near future.

Until then, take care.

Peace and Love,

Veronica

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Strong Women Novels

Veronica Mahara

Hello Everyone,

Hope you are all well. May is one of my favorite months and it’s nearly over but I look forward to the summer ahead. My veggie garden is popping with new growth. We’ve had a rainy and cool spring. Fingers crossed we start to warm up. The orchard is doing well and all 22 trees are healthy. The late frost took some of the early blossoms so I’m not sure we will get as many plums and pears as last year, but the apples are a plenty! After all Washington State is apple country 🙂

I’m so pleased to announce that my fourth novel, Beyond Diamonds is now available for purchase on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/author/veronicamahara

It’s Free with Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited program – so check it out 🙂

Thanks for all your support! Happy Spring!

Peace and Love,

Veronica

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Release Date for new Novel

Veronica Mahara

Hello Everyone,

I hope this finds you well and if you are in the part of the world where spring has sprung I wish you a happy spring! The longer, brighter days have certainly been a great help to my mental health. Along with planting a new veggie and flower garden, I have been sewing summer clothes in anticipation of a hot summer season.

I am excited to finally be able to announce the release date for my fourth novel, Beyond Diamonds. May 15th is the official release date but you can pre-order starting Monday, April 29th.

I am also doing an ARC -advance reader’s copies (which will go beyond the release date) at Booksprout and Booksirens.

Here is the blurb for Beyond Diamonds:

Due to her father’s success in the jewelry business and the diamond trade, Jane Wallingford enjoys a privileged lifestyle as part of Cincinnati, Ohio’s upper class.

At nearly twenty-five years old, she’s more interested in horticulture than marriage and children. When she finally falls in love with Martin, a mild-mannered jeweler, she’s faced with harsh disapproval from her parents, and Jane’s plan to marry and bring to society her grand ideas for a garden estate is shattered. With an arranged marriage looming, she endeavors in her studies of the plant world while she nurses her broken heart and ambitions.

Tragedy strikes and Jane can marry Martin, but he has his own plans, and she soon finds herself in a small northern California town where a rundown homestead and sheep farm await her. In Clermont City, and the society of San Francisco, Jane meets people from different social standings, including Martin’s cousin, Harry. She’s drawn to the handsome, down-to-earth man who doesn’t take her as seriously as she takes herself.

Using her substantial dowry, Jane sets out to turn the farm into her dream estate, while Martin engrosses himself in the raising of sheep. Even with the help of Harry, a fellow sheep farmer, Martin struggles to make a living at it. Unconcerned with money, Jane continues her passion for horticulture, and the running of her household until news from back home suddenly changes her way of life. The family’s fortune is bankrupt and now Jane and Martin must make the farm work or lose everything. Secrets come to light that will shake Jane’s faith in Martin, drawing her deeper into a scandalous relationship while her role on the farm changes dramatically. What was once a hobby, now becomes a lifeline.

A heartfelt story of fortunes lost and gained and a woman’s journey to find love and success on paths unknown. 

Thank you for your support 🙂

Peace and Love,

Veronica

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Editing Mode:Spring Clean-up

Veronica Mahara

Hello Everyone,

Spring is here! In my yard and beyond all the buds are fat and ready to burst. My yard needs some cleaning from the last wind storm, but it’s wonderful to see the plants and trees and shrubs come back to life. At this time in the world I needed to see renewal and hope for the future even if it’s only in my little patch of earth.

Beyond Diamonds, my fourth historical novel set in the late 19th century is in rewrite and editing and rewrite and … I have a deadline and it’s really got me going. So much fun to get to the end of the my book then go back and start the clean-up. My protagonist, Jane Cabot desires the things that only money can buy. What about the thing money can’t buy? The missing piece is for her to find.

My interest in gardening has spilled over into this novel as Jane becomes interested in horticulture when her parents want her to become interested in culture, society and the proper place for a woman. When she falls in love with Martin, against her parent’s wishes she gets a whole lot more than she bargained for.

I’ve found time to do a watercolor. It helps to rest my mind and spirit. I hope you enjoy. It’s my rendition of one of the botanical arts from -The Book of Flowers, Pierre Joseph Redoute.

Thanks for visiting,

Peace and Love,

Veronica

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Book #4 Beyond Diamonds

Veronica Mahara

Hello Everyone! I hope Thanksgiving day was a good one for all of you in the U.S. (I’m still full!)

With 2022 just around the corner I have plans to publish my fourth book in the summer/fall.

I’m having a grand time with my protagonist! It’s 1874 and twenty-year-old Jane is ready to take Cincinnati, Ohio by storm. Her father, a jewelry merchant and owner of several jewelry stores in and around the bustling, progressive city has plans for his son and daughter. His heirs will continue the empire he is building. However, Jane falls in love with one of his jewelry makers–some one below her class. Her father knew he was raising a strong, independent girl, but he didn’t count on this. When her beloved father dies unexpectedly, Jane is under her overbearing brother’s rules … until she takes life into her own hands.

Not to give too much away, but can a rich girl find happiness with a man who takes her out West to live on a sheep farm? And what happens when her inheritance is threatened by her brother’s mismanagement of the jewelry business?

Plenty of romance, adventure and lessons to be learned. I think this is shaping up to be a fun novel for my readers 🙂

Have a great day!

Peace and Love, Veronica

Watercolor painting by Veronica Mahara Stoneman 2020. This painting is my version of a piece in the book-the art of Botanical Drawing by
Agathe Ravet-Haevermans