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Ginger Monette

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Romance, Historical Fiction

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Jane Austen, E. E. Burke, Denise Hunter, Elizabeth Gaskell, Georgette ...more

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My life took a sharp turn in 2012. It seemed all at once my children grew up. And I discovered writing...

I'd been working at a homeschool consignment store, and because Pride & Prejudice is common fare for high school reading, we sold a lot of copies. My colleagues could not believe I had never read the book or seen the movie.

My boss loaned me the movies, and a few days later I slid the 2005 version into my DVD player. Obsession soon followed... I bet I watched the sparring of Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen ten times in ten days. When my daughter became interested, if she put the DVD in, all it took was for me to hear the music, and it beckoned me to the TV like a Siren.

Then, oh glory, I discovered fan fiction and period dramas whic My life took a sharp turn in 2012. It seemed all at once my children grew up. And I discovered writing...

I'd been working at a homeschool consignment store, and because Pride & Prejudice is common fare for high school reading, we sold a lot of copies. My colleagues could not believe I had never read the book or seen the movie.

My boss loaned me the movies, and a few days later I slid the 2005 version into my DVD player. Obsession soon followed... I bet I watched the sparring of Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen ten times in ten days. When my daughter became interested, if she put the DVD in, all it took was for me to hear the music, and it beckoned me to the TV like a Siren.

Then, oh glory, I discovered fan fiction and period dramas which opened a whole new world to me.

One day I began to daydream about a story idea of my own...

Although I had done a good bit of inductive writing, I was a novice at fiction. The idea of my penning a novel was almost laughable. But ideas for Colonel Fitzwilliam and Charlotte Lucas meeting at a ball would not stop coming. When a very accomplished fan fiction author in England said she would help me, I decided to give it a go.

I distinctly remember the day when I first sat pecking out the first scene on my laptop. Instantly I was hooked. Four and a half months later I emerged from my small closet office with a completed manuscript and an email inbox of 120+ email exchanges to England with discussions on everything from adverbs to the roles of horses in Regency England.

It took another four month for six beta editors and a focus group to pick it apart, but the day UPS delivered my first bound copy with that glossy cover--well, it will stand out to me forever.

When new ideas began percolating while watching Downton Abbey, my stack of books on Regency doctors was soon replaced by World War I diaries. Now I'm thrilled to be releasing the first two book in my Great War Romance series, Darcy's Hope~ Beauty from Ashes: A World War I Pride & Prejudice Variation and Darcy's Hope at Donwell Abbey. Visit my website at the address above to see what else is in the works!

"Who can know what a year can bring?" {Colonel Fitzwilliam, Tree of Life.}
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Hello, It is Lolitta Kr on youtube , I sent you a message on facebook , I hope you answer me since we almost share the same intrests, I'am actualy a student of english from Tunisia and I'm working on my master's thesis. The topic I'm working on is analysing nurses sitution during the first world war through their diaries, Im struggling to find online diaries.. I hope to talk to you soon, Thanks in advance ?

Ginger Monette I did not get the FB message. Email me directly through the contact link on my website: gmonette.wix.com/author.

I think I can help you with a few reco…moreI did not get the FB message. Email me directly through the contact link on my website: gmonette.wix.com/author.

I think I can help you with a few recommendations, but it is an enormous topic--and things changed with every year of the war, in every theater of the war, and every country did things a little differently.

An excellent place to start is the blog and website of Sue Light--probably THE foremost expert on WW1 nurses in the world. http://greatwarnurses.blogspot.com/
http://www.scarletfinders.co.uk/

I have extensive notes relating to WW1 nurses I can email you, all categorized by topic with references where the info came from. I have typed notes from all the books I've read as well. I assume you could plug them into Google Translate to read in your native language.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

~Ginger(less)

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Ginger Monette Darcy's Hope: Beauty From Ashes a World War I inspired novel set on the Western Front. Captain Fitzwilliam Darcy is sent to command a field hospital o…moreDarcy's Hope: Beauty From Ashes a World War I inspired novel set on the Western Front. Captain Fitzwilliam Darcy is sent to command a field hospital only to find a certain young lady there...

To find out more, visit my website at gmonette.wix.com/author!
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	Darcy's Hope: Beauty from Ashes: A WWI Pride & Prejudice Variation (Great War Romance, #1) 4.37 avg rating — 111 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Darcy's Hope at Donwell Abbey: A WWI Pride & Prejudice Variation (Great War Romance, #2) 4.35 avg rating — 106 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tree of Life: Charlotte & the Colonel 4.02 avg rating — 58 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Darcy's Hope Saga (Great War Romance Vol I & II) 4.79 avg rating — 14 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Darcy's Hope at Donwell Abbey: A World War 1 Pride & Prejudice Companion 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lizzy's Scrapbook: A Visual Companion to Darcy's Hope ~ Beauty from Ashes: A World War 1 Pride & Prejudice Variation 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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