Laraba Kendig

It has been too long since I updated this blog!  I am currently writing a new story called Peacocks of Pemberley , and expect it will be out in the next month or two.  I am juggling writing with caring for a bunch of children so I am not always entirely certain of when I will complete a book. In late July, I published Darcy in Distress, which was great fun to write.  It includes a humbled and worried Darcy and a good George Wickham.  It is enjoyable turning normal tropes on the head sometimes!

 I have been a writing fool in the last few months and have published two novels in the last three months. Brighton Rescue largely takes place in (surprise!) Brighton, when Elizabeth and company converge to rescue Lydia from her idiotic infatuation with Wickham. Longbourn's Son launched last week, and tells the story of a Bennet family with a twin to Kitty, a son named Luke.  Naturally with the birth of an heir, the fortunes of the Bennet daughters changes profoundly.   I write very quickly, obviously. I wonder sometimes how I manage to write so much, and have concluded it is partly a gift, and partly that I am used to trucking along on a project even during the dry spells.  I have a Ph.D. in engineering so spent minutes and hours and days and weeks toiling away on challenging projects.  Compared to writing a Ph.D. thesis, writing a Pride and Prejudice variation is a delight :-). I continue to be amazed, startled, honored, and grateful to all the kind souls who buy my books, read

 My husband and I crept away to our favorite vacation spot last month -- namely, St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands.  We enjoyed 8 days of sun and waves and snorkeling and wandering along the seashore.  We live in the Midwest of the USA, and there are no oceans within four hundred miles.  To get to coral reefs, we have to travel considerably further.  Praise God for airplanes!  Seriously, it amazes me how much has changed in a mere 100 years.  Laura Ingalls Wilder, famed writer of the Little House in the Prairie series of books, spent time in a covered wagon which, if memory serves, would make about ten miles a DAY.  And we can fly from the Midwest to the Caribbean in a few hours.  Incredible. I did release another book, Mission to Meryton , and am closing in on the end of The Golden Daffodil. Both were great fun to write.  The latter is inspired a little by the Scarlet Pimpernel , which is a fun book from the early 1900's.   I continue to be amazed and grateful at the support o

 It has been far far too long since I posted on this blog.  My apologies! I published another book recently, Longbourn Inheritance.  It has, thus far, been my most popular book and I am super grateful to all the readers who have purchased it and/or read it on Kindle Unlimited.  It makes my heart go pitter pat with joy to have so many people relishing the book! Spring has sprung here in southern Ohio, where my family and I dwell.  It is always exciting this time of year with leaves coming out and tulips poking their little noses above the soil. Speaking of tulips, I am working on another Pride and Prejudice book where tulips play an important role!  It will be a while before it is completed, but I am toiling away on it vigorously in between chasing my kids around. AND I am working on a second Pride and Prejudice book entitled "The Golden Daffodil".  I seem to have flowers on the brain! I continue to be awed by the kindness of so many in encouraging me in my journey as an autho

 And just like that, we have put 2020 in the rear view mirror! Of course, the difference between December 31st, 2020 and January 1st, 2021, is but a day. We still have COVID-19 causing great difficulties.  Regrettably, the virus doesn't know what day it is. I am writing not one but two stories now. The first, The Enigmatic Mr. Collins, is a sequel to A Fortuitous Fall.  I have never written a sequel to one of my books before, so this is proving an interesting experience.  Since Darcy and Elizabeth are already married, I no longer have to work on getting them together.  On the other hand, there are plenty of other young men and ladies who need to find their way to a happy future. The other book is Longbourn Inheritance.  The main change from the traditional Pride and Prejudice is that the Bennets did have a son, but regrettably the boy (who was sickly from birth) died when he was 15 years of age.  The loss of the heir to Longbourn causes many changes in the relationships of the Benn