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Good Monday Morning All!

It’s February and I’m trying not to get the winter blues! ~The days are getting longer and soon I will be planting my sweet peas!

The winter white of the snowfall is making my world a picturesque wonderland. Luckily we don’t get much snow and it only lasts a few days on average. A snow day would be nice.

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I start back up on rewrites for the second in my book series of American Historical Fiction. I say start back because about ten days ago I was writing along, minding my own business when silver streaks shot out from the side of my vision. Blood splashed across my site. I thought I was having a brain hemorrhage!

Long story short and many tests later, it wasn’t anything to worry about, just a bit of eye tissue coming loose, tearing a vein… and I will heal. Trying to see clearly out of that eye until then is annoying.

I know stress can cause a bunch of weird stuff in that complicated universe we call our bodies. So, I slowed down and changed a few things in my life and fingers crossed I can stick to it. Feels good to push the reset button!

Wishing you all a great week and be carefuIMG_3375l of that stress!

Love and Peace,

Veronica

~~Ready for a snow day! Don’t forget the flowers 🙂 ~~

 

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Gardening in the Winter

Good Monday Morning All!

The weather in my end of the Pacific Northwest had been beautifully sunny and mild for about four days now. The weather focasters warn us to not get use to it- we are not over the rain and winds storms.  (By the day this is published we’ll probably be there again).  Yet, I get restless to garden. I have planted a four season garden in my yard and it’s so encouraging to see the bright yellow flowers of the witch hazel bush and the cream- colored hellebores in clumps of dark green foliage while other flowers and bulbs are still sleeping.  The heather too adds to my spring fever!

We don’t get the harsher cold winters like a lot of the U.S. and it’s stays very green, but winter is winter and I always count the days until the sun will shine again until late into the evening.

Gardening can be very healing. Even if the world outside your window says “not yet” to gardening, a pot of herbs on the windowsill can be very uplifting.

What do you do to get through the winter months? Let me here from you 🙂

Have a great day and week everyone!

Peace and Love,

Veronica

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Writer’s Thoughts

Good Monday Morning All,

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Happy New Year!

What a beautiful Christmas  we had. The grandkids were beyond excited and my house was filled with children’s wonder and energy! Christmas day, Jeff and I exchanged our gifts … and relaxed. I felt completely spoiled because I got to lie on the couch, read a good book – The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak – A Novel of Catherine the Great- and indulge in chocolate and left-over goodies from our party.

As I read more and more historical fiction with romance it makes me think about the genre of Romance. I think a lot of people who don’t know the genre see it only as the stories about Dukes and Earls, maids and their chances of snatching a royal, always with a fairytale ending. Fun reading for sure, but there is so much more to Historical Romance!

Take for instant three novels by Karleen Koen: Through a Glass Darkly, Dark Angels and Now Face to Face. They’re full of Countesses, Dukes, Duchesses, A French Court…etc. They are a great read, well written and researched and for a historical fiction fan I was in heaven! There is intrigue, lust, love, and romance a plenty, yet anyone who loves historical fiction, can also find them satisfying.

My books certainly meet the genre of Historical Romance yet, The Traveled Heart is set in America in the late 1800’s.  Some English influence is brought in with the devious Frederick Moore, but mainly the romance, lust, wealth and adventures take place in America.

My hope is that historical romance will be known as a more diverse genre. So many of us have a lot to contribute to this entertaining part of literature.

Happy writing and reading in 2019!

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Peace and Love,

Veronica