Category: Blog A Story

Hello my Dearest Readers!

I hope you are all well where you go about your day-to-day.

We’re 5 weeks in with my novelette Frances & Gilbert. It’s the 1st story in my Cape of Good Hope series.

Here’s a summary of the story:

Gilbert Parsons’ life of privilege feels artificial, frivolous and empty. Frances Snowley shows him just how much when they meet for the first time. Frances’ life is turned upside down when both her parents die in a short period of time. She’s confronted by the bureaucracy of society when she’s required to take a husband. In each other they will have exactly what they both want and need.  But conspiracy, social demands and time seem to have a different plan. Will they choose marriage-of-convenience or marriage-of-love?

Frances & Gilbert (Cape of Good Hope Series) by Anne C West

In the introduction post a few weeks ago I mentioned it’s a clean romance. In a Facebook group for clean romance authors, one of the authors set out the guidelines for this genre.

This week’s scene from Frances & Gilbert could be construed as not clean and that worried me. No, the scene is not racy or breathy, it’s just an emotional and vulnerable scene.

So sad that we could possibly split hairs over something as trivial as perspectives.

Anyways, enough of that.

Enjoy this week’s post in my Blog A Story series.

Until next time!

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Hello my Dearest Readers!

Last week was the last of my short stories suitable for other eyes. I have a whole library full of other short stories but not ones that I think is anything more than gibberish.

Over the next few weeks, 25 weeks to be exact, I will be sharing my novelette Frances & Gilbert with you. It’s the 1st story in my Cape of Good Hope series.

This little story is solidly a clean / wholesome romance set in the 1880’s more or less.

Frances and Gilbert are the main characters in the story. Some other characters from future books are introduced as the story progress.

Here’s a smart summary of the story:

Gilbert Parsons’ life of privilege feels artificial, frivolous and empty. Frances Snowley shows him just how much when they meet for the first time. Frances’ life is turned upside down when both her parents die in a short period of time. She’s confronted by the bureaucracy of society when she’s required to take a husband. In each other they will have exactly what they both want and need.  But conspiracy, social demands and time seem to have a different plan. Will they choose marriage-of-convenience or marriage-of-love?

Frances & Gilbert (Cape of Good Hope Series) by Anne C West

That’s it for now.

Until next time!

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Hello my Dearest Readers!

This week I want to introduce you to a deadly bridge

It fits securely into fantasy. Probably a bit dark fantasy but fantasy nonetheless.

I can’t exactly remember what was the inspiration for this story but it was definitely from a time where I looked for the devil in all things and handed out judgement left right and center.

How far I’ve come…

We’re all just works in progress.

This story is playing a little bit with the Billy Goats Gruff story of the troll on the bridge and the goats passing over.

In this story the one doing the work gets to cross the bridge and the other one meets their, well demise.

Like my ‘Notebooks’ story, this is definitely also just a scene in a bigger story. Probably just a short story or maybe just a novella. I’ve been craving Christmas stories so maybe I can write my own dark Christmas fantasy!

Regardless, I hope you enjoy the story this Friday. Don’t hesitate to let me know what you think.

That’s it for now.

Until next time!

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