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The Vignettes

This collection of short stories, vignettes, and essays are various samplings from nearly four years of blog stops, out-takes, and musings. There are a few shorts that never made it into a larger novel and even some essays describing the great works that inspired Nicole Clarkston. Most of the scenes are connected to one of her published works, but are not included in the book. At the beginning of each segment, she has included a short word to establish context.

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Published March 1, 2019

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Nicole Clarkston

28 books213 followers
Nicole Clarkston is a book lover and a happily married mom of three. Originally from Idaho, she now lives in Oregon with her own romantic hero, three kids who are taller than she is, and one very fat dog.

Nicole can be reached through Facebook at http://fb.me/NicoleClarkstonAuthor, Twitter @N_Clarkston, her blog at Goodreads.com, or her personal blog and website, NicoleClarkson.com.

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1,736 reviews149 followers
September 8, 2020
The book blurb says it best:

This collection of short stories, vignettes, and essays are various samplings from nearly four years of blog stops, out-takes, and musings. There are a few shorts that never made it into a larger novel and even some essays describing the great works that inspired Nicole Clarkston. Most of the scenes are connected to one of her published works but are not included in the book. At the beginning of each segment, she has included a short word to establish context.

Book available for download when you subscribe to the author's newsletter. https://nicoleclarkston.com/free-gift/

This was clean but steamy due to scenes that did go into the bedroom post-wedding night.
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Author 5 books428 followers
March 15, 2026
If you're like me, when you really love a film, you are tickled to death to find out there are special extra features to enjoy afterward. The Vignettes by Nicole Clarkston is just such a bundle of extra scenes, deleted scenes, character interviews, essays, etc for a few of her books.

I enjoyed delving more into one of my favorite North and South variations, Northern Rain, and the P&P variations London Holiday, These Dreams, and Rumours & Recklessness.

Definitely for fans of the books who want more of these books and characters.

The Vignettes was made available for author newsletter followers at the time I rec'd this.
2,743 reviews50 followers
June 25, 2024
I was searching my Kindle to see if I had an unread Austen variations left and found this book. While it is all well written I can't say that I loved it. It really wasn't what I was looking for. It is what the title says, brief vignettes that never made it into a book for one reason or another. Why I didn't like them was simply because I wanted more story. It would just start getting going and then, boom! Done. So if you just want to read Nicole Chlarkston's writing then this is great. But if you want a whole story, this isn't the book. You may get a little background about a story and an unpublished glimpse of it though.
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901 reviews23 followers
June 12, 2022
These short bits of literary yumminess reminded me of why I love Nicole Clarkston's books so much and have inspired me to reread some of them. She is unmatched for swoony, romantic scenes that melt the reader into a puddle.
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