Monica Fairview, Author

To celebrate the release I’ll be doing a tour of various blogs as well as having giveaways. Please stop in along the way and join the discussion or enter for a giveaway of STEAMPUNK DARCY !   September 30/09 Goodreads giveaway (2 days) October 03/10 To Read or Not to Read  Interview  14/10 My Jane Austen Book Club  Interview and Giveaway 15/10 STEAMPUNK DARCY LAUNCH AND GIVEAWAY ON AUSTENPROSE! 15/10 Buckeye Girl Reads  Post and Giveaway 16/10 Indie Jane Blog Post  16/10 Coffee Time Romance Revelry and Giveaway   18/10 Jera’s Jamboree Interview  21/10 Austenesque Reviews Post  21/10 Indie Jane Review  22/10 Romantic Novelists Association Post  24/10 Long and Short Reviews Interview 26/10 Austen Authors Post and Giveaway 28/10 Jane Austen Sequels Post and Giveaway 29/10 Colette Saucier 's Blog Post 29/10 Coffee Time Romance Steampunk Spook-tacular Event 9 PM EST / 8 ...

The giveaway is for TWO DAYS only, starting Monday September 30th Goodreads Book Giveaway Steampunk Darcy by Monica Fairview Giveaway ends October 02, 2013. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win

On Wednesday I took the train from Clapham Junction to Winchester to meet Laurel Ann Nattress (editor of Jane Austen Made Me Do It ) and her Jane Austen Tour Group. Luckily, I didn't have to ride in a locomotive like the one below because it would have taken me a lot longer than the one hour forty-five minutes it took for me to get to Winchester where I was supposed to meet them. Though it might have been fun to chug along in the days when this steam-operated train (below) ran from London to Southampton, it would have taken me quite a lot longer!  Built in 1894 and withdrawn 1949 courtesy Ben Brooksbank As I passed through a quintessentially English scene with its gentle hills and its quiet "verdure" (Winchester is at the edge of the South Downs), I was surprised to see far more cows than sheep. The black and white cows reminded me of Switzerland, but only briefly. The small fields enclosed by hedgerows are too distinctive. It occurred to me...