Jencey's Writer's Corner

When you spend enough time with Karen White and Beatriz Williams you learn to enjoy their sense of humor.   I very much enjoyed their discussions on what would be the next title of this novel that they worked on with Lauren Willig .   I was bummed when the Memory of Air was not chosen as the title.   The title chosen was The Glass Ocean and it tells quite the tale, of the Lusitania. “ May 2013 Her finances are in dire straits and bestselling author Sarah Blake is struggling to find a big idea for her next book. Desperate, she breaks the one promise she made to her Alzheimer’s-stricken mother and opens an old chest that belonged to her great-grandfather, who died when the RMS  Lusitania was sunk by a German U-Boat in 1915. What she discovers there could change history. Sarah embarks on an ambitious journey to England to enlist the help of John Langford, a recently disgraced Member of Parliament whose family archives might contain the only key to the long-ago...

Happy New Year!  My apologies for being a little behind this month!  I thought that I would share the top novels at Writer’s Corner in 2016. Once again these novels may or may not have been published in the previous year. Drum roll please…The novels are:  The first novel is Juliet by Anne Fortier Julie and Janice Jacobs are going home to deal with the death of their Aunt Rose. The will is read and Janice gets the house and everything in it. Julie gets a key with a plane ticket to go to Italy. Her mission is to find out what her mother wanted her to know about the past and a possible treasure. Julie Jacobs becomes Giulietta Tolemeis which is her given name. Part of her search is to search for Romeo and all the people that are connected to the story. Julie picks up a box that includes a story about the real Romeo and Juliet. What was there story? How can the current Romeo and Juliet break the curse placed on the houses of Tolemeis and Salimbeni? Will there be a ha...

For the first time in history three women authors have gotten together to tell a story.  This story is written one seamless story.  The Forgotten Room is one such novel.  I also know that they are working on another project. Synopsis: Olivia Van Alen is a maid in the Pratt mansion in New York.  She has taken the post to get revenge for her father’s death.  Will she be able to find the proof that she needs?  Or will she be distracted by one of the sons?  Their story remains a secret until we meet Lucy Young who takes a job with a law firm.  Her boss is a Schuyler and one of his clients is a Ravenel.  When Lucy is asked to take this client out will she find that they have more in common than she thought?  Then in the Second World War the mansion has become a hospital.  Doctor Kate Schuyler who is Lucy’s daughter makes a case for taking on an extra patient.  This patient is Cooper Ravenel.  What will they discover a...