Comments on: REVIEW: Samburu Hills by Jennifer Mueller

By: Jennifer Mueller

Jennifer Mueller — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 03:34:14 +0000

Hi Jayne, just an update, Samburu Hills will be rereleased January 18th at Red Rose Publishing.

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Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:28:50 +0000

[...] Samburu Hills by Jennifer Mueller (Arranged marriage story set in Edwardian period) [...]

By: Jayne

Jayne — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 16:06:16 +0000

Sherry, I’m always trying to learn more so teach away. Wow, a cholera epidemic in Timbuktu – be still my heart!

By: sherry thomas

sherry thomas — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:43:14 +0000

Lol, Jayne,

And here I displayed all my erudition for nothing. I feel like I tried to teach Martha Stewart housekeeping. :-)

And if Timbuktu is such a longed-for setting, heck I’m looking for an out-of-the-way place for a cholera outbreak or some such to set my reverse-Painted-Veil story. Maybe I’ll google it. :-)

By: Jayne

Jayne — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 10:17:31 +0000

Janine, I’ve not seen any Timbuktu novels yet. I remain ever hopeful.

By: Jayne

Jayne — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 10:15:04 +0000

Exactly Sherry. But mention is made that Celeste’s husband is a “lord in his own right” which I assumed to mean that he had some title of his own and could therefore pass it down to their son (mention is also made that the son is now a Lord). I wondered if maybe some of the colonists of later British colonies (after America) had been given titles by the Crown. I hadn’t thought this was the case and was confused when the Lord title of the son was briefly mentioned in this story.

By: sherry thomas

sherry thomas — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 01:09:46 +0000

Hi, Jayne,

Any younger son of a marquess is referred to as Lord Firstname Lastname, most often Lord Firstname in conversation and in greeting. It’s just an honorific. Dude is not a real lordship, and it’s not a courtesy title. But he’s still known as Lord John Smith.

I think this applies to younger sons of marquesses and dukes. Once you go down to an earl, his younger son is just an Honorable Mr. Givenname Familyname.

By: Janine

Janine — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 16:02:36 +0000

You mean you haven’t read a romance set in Timbuktu yet? Drat! I hope Ms. Mueller hurries up and writes one. ;-) Seriously, I don’t think I’ve ever known anyone else who has read romances so diversely in terms of setting as you do, Jayne. It’s one of several reasons why I look forward to your reviews.

Samburu Hills looks really interesting and I liked the excerpt that you linked to as well. In the excerpt, Mueller has a nice writing style. I will have to remember to get this one when I get my faster computer back and can download e-books in a reasonable time frame.