It's a brisk autumn day and Cathy has decided it's too good a day to spend cooped up in the house, and so she's donned her sturdiest walking dress, a warm Spencer jacket and her thick-soled walking shoes. Then she's packed a tin lunch pail with some rolls, dried fruit and a flask of clean water. And the pleasure to be found in a walk in the autumn ( Read more... )

Most days, Cathy is busy preparing her next writing class, or teaching it, and working on printing and binding her next book. But in the evening, she has a few hours free in which to curl up with a book and expand her horizons.

She's found a highly scientific trio of vampire novels, which has caught her attention and has been keeping her on the ( Read more... )

It might be a few moments before Cathy starts to moan under her breath, as she slowly starts to come back to her senses. She lies collapsed on an upholstered armchair, her upper body draped over one arm of the chair, her lower body sprawled awkwardly over the seat, legs slack on the floor ( Read more... )

A day or two after her conversation with Fuschia a notice goes up on the bulletin board in the main room, in Cathy's neat copperplate hand:

Culinary Experts Needed ( Read more... )

The earthquake has disrupted Cathy's lessons with Sansa, but now that the house is back to rights again, she's ready to resume teaching the young lady of the Stark family the fine arts of reading and writing ( Read more... )

In a world where the natural and the preternatural intermingle, Lady Margaret Trevalyn must soon marry and give her family an heir to its title. But for that to happen, she must decide between Lord Hollytree, the Elven lord who brings the wealth of the Summer Lands, or Ruthveyn, a poet turned vampire who can give her immortality. Her friend, Fenric ( Read more... )

It's been some weeks since Cathy has started studying with Crocker, learning what she can about the paranormal world, the better to improve her fantasy novels. In that time, she's learned things that she did not know before. And she has also started to grow fond of her tutor ( Read more... )

It took her longer than it did to write her first novel, since this time, she actually made the effort to make a second draft -- and to put some actual thought into the plot, rather than the fantasy kitchen sink that her first book was. Thus, she's a little burned in a happy way, and before she sets out to print up the novel, she's taking a day or ( Read more... )

Cathy has been a flutter at hoping to meet a true noble-born woman with a genuine title, but more importantly, she's been looking forward to meeting the mother of her dear friend Angelique's husband. She's made a pot of tea and found some fresh-made molasses cookies in the kitchen, which she's setting out on a plate as she awaits their arrival.

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Miss Katrina Drummond is en route to London, travelling by coach in the company of her tutor, Mister Peter Corvine; while on the coach, they meet an adventuress, Madame Tarroque, who regales them with tales of hunting down a highwayman who has plagued the road. At length, the coach breaks down in the middle of a rainstorm, and they are obliged to ( Read more... )