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Re: Searching For Pemberley (3:52pm December 23, 2009):

Thanks to all for commenting. Happy Holidays!

Re: Searching For Pemberley (1:18pm December 22, 2009):

Hi Gigi, I agree that you really have to slow down your pace when reading Austen. I imagine it's closer to what people reading in Austen's time would have experienced. We just don't have to do it by candlelight.

To all at Fresh Fiction, thank you for having me back. This was such a wonderful site, and the feedback was terrific. Lots of good energy here.

Re: Searching For Pemberley (9:33pm December 3, 2009):

I will happy to clean house for anyone who lives on Maui or Aspen or Hilton Head. Let me know.

Re: Searching For Pemberley (5:42pm December 3, 2009):

What an amazing group of people on this site. I haven't encountered anything like this on my blog tour. So my heartfelt thanks for the welcome. Since it seems like I've a few more novels in me, I'm thinking of tiling my whole house. I don't get the same effect when I vacuum--too noisy. I hope everyone enjoys Searching for Pemberley.

Re: Searching For Pemberley (12:57pm December 3, 2009):

Thank you for sharing your own stories. It is so wonderful to have an exchange of ideas. As I said, this is a terrific site.

Re: Searching For Pemberley (12:53pm December 3, 2009):

I started writing a novel in my 30s, but it was terrible. I tried again in my 40's. No luck. It was only when I had my knee replaced, and I was bored b/c I wasn't working that I finally started writing my Austen novel. That was 4 years ago, but by that time, I was ready.

Re: Searching For Pemberley (10:40am December 3, 2009):

What a wonderful site! Thank you for all your comments. It seems that some of us have clean houses because we write.