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Editing Mode:Spring Clean-up

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

Artist's World, Author's World, Excerpts from my Novels

Book #4 Beyond Diamonds

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