Congratulations on your publication day!!! 🎊 I hope you have an amazing and memorable day, in which to enjoy this massive accomplishment ❤

This was so confusing and disjointed, that I decided not to read Trollope this summer.

I had pre-sales ebook which is now on my kindle. Looking forward to reading!

Thank you for this lovely and interesting vlog. I love the dance cards! I have just ordered your book and can’t wait to read it.

How you describe your reaction to Eliot’s writing is how I feel about Austen’s writing. I find her prose so dry and droning.

Thank you for the views of London and the National Gallery, especially the Impressionism gallery. If you ever make it to Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago has a fantastic collection of Impressionism. I've finished a re-read of S&S; I'd forgotten all the witty lines. Also really loved Jane Austen's Wardrobe by Hilary Davidson, which links excerpts from JA's letters to different types of Regency clothing. Beautiful, accessible & scholarly at the same time! Good luck with Book #2 and please send some of that Labour Wave to this side of the pond...we need it desperately.

Congratulations! I can’t wait to receive my copy of the book all the way here in sunny California.

Happy Publication Day 🎉

Happy publication day! 🎉 I got a notification from Blackwell's this morning that they shipped my copy. Can't wait to read it!

So happy for you! The dance cards and fans were a fantastic idea. I received an email from Blackwells yesterday that my copy had been dispatched to the US, looking forward to reading. Thank you for sharing your journey with us! 📚❤

Loved this vlog! Congratulations🎉 Can't wait to read your new book.

Can’t wait to read this

It’s a gorgeous book! ❤ congratulations!

So excited to read - great vlog!

I hope you've had an utterly astounding publication day and that the launch was everything you imagined. Many thanks for showing us the journey to publication - it is insightful and inspiring.

Congratulations! I loved your expression while you were listening to the audiobook being recorded 🥹 Yesterday I got my Audible credit and I used it to pre-order your book, I had never done that before! So this morning I had the book ready to download 😁 I can't wait to read it, I feel I'll love it even more than your first one. PS: That idea with the dancing cards is so fun!

Happy publication day Katie 😊 I have my copy 🎉 so excited!!

Using copies of Secrets of Hartwood Hall to prop up your computer monitor is such a boss move !

Happy publication day 🎉🎉🎉 It’s such a gorgeous book 😊

Katie, I’m so happy for you. My copy from Blackwells shipped yesterday! I’m llooking forward to sharing it on my channel and hopefully reading it this year. 💛

Congratulations on your 2nd book publication! I read The Secrets of Hartwood Hall last month and enjoyed it.

CONGRATULATIONS!!! SO EXCITED! OK, I'll stop yelling. Sooo many things and I haven't even read it yet. That map! It looks so authentically 19th century. And I love your description of how meaningful maps are to you and the memories with your brother. For some people, a map is just a map, but I feel the same way about them that you do. This warrants a second paragraph and more yelling. The dance cards and the fans? OMG GENIUS!!! Seriously. WOW. OK, I don't think I've asked this before about your writing process. How do plot out your novel? Do you start right with the spreadsheet? Also, do you write things in sequence, Beginning, Middle, & End or do you come up with a scene and write that and figure out later where you're going to put it? Honestly, I think you could do a series called "Writing & Things." I'd be interested in how you plan, your character sheets, and more about how you keep track of your timeline, scenes, etc. Again, CONGRATS!!! 🙂🫖

Your face when listening to your audiobook is so beautiful!

this is incredible! what an achievement! this is a lot of work. I started crying when you talked about the map. You are amazing Katie. BRAVO!

I cannot wait to continue reading!

Happy publication day! How exciting! I can’t wait to read your new book. 🎉

Fascinating.

Hello Katie... May was a crazy hectic month for me especially at work. I teach 2nd grade in a dual language class. Was SUPER EXHAUSTED. OMG!! BUT... I just had to share what I just randomly found at Barnes & Nobles & had to wait a bit to get it but I got it yesterday. 😂🩷 It is a new author for me, Judith Flanders. She wrote "The Invention of Murder- How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime. I can't wait to read & see what her research & all brings to light. I guess she researches & writes about the Victorian era. 🙂 Have a great day! 🥰

Lovely vlog by the lady wot wrote The Secrets Of Hartwood Hall!😜I hope Katie you have a lot of success with your second novel! No doubt our mutual friend is looking down on you in rapturous approval.❤

Congratulations! Love the dance card and fan idea. I can’t wait to get my copy!

On the way to USA!

“As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another…” 1 Peter 4:10 Thank you, Katie, for using your many talents to inspire and bless the world. The journey you took us on in this vlog was eye opening. What it takes to craft a book from the seed of an idea to publication is overwhelming! How you shared the “science” behind what you do was very interesting and shows the amount of diligence and attention to detail that goes into such a project. It’s exquisite, from the cover to the map, to the engaging narrative; you’ve completed a lovely piece of literature, and given it to the world. Thank you.

Congratulations Happy Publication Day 🥂🍾🎉 Looking foward to reading it

Congratulations!!! My book has been despatched this week and is traveling over the big pond!

I’m currently listening to Great Expectations, my first Dickens book to read/listen to. I’m loving it! Fell in love from the start, such great story telling. And listening to the audiobook I think really enhances that experience for me. I mark favourite quotes on a hard copy book as I go along. My next Dickens will probably be David Copperfield.

Very entertaining and informative . Great success .

Love the dance cards and fans! Very clever idea!

Happy Publication Day Katie! The book looks lovely. Hoping to get my hands on a copy soon!

🎉📖Happy Publication Day🎈🥳🍾 Congratulations! (Wow, time flew! I still remember the first book as if it were very recently released)

This was such a lovely insight Katie. Massive congratulations on your new book. 🥳

Happy publication day! I cant wait to pick your second novel up, I loved The Secrets of Hardwood Hall! Congratulations on The Trouble with Mrs Montgomery Hurst :)

Amazing video!❤

I finished Miniatures & Moral by Peter Leithart, The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh by Claudia Gray, Sense & Sensibility, and Northanger Abbey. I'm currently working on The Other Bennet Sister, Sanditon, Praying w/Jane (Bible devotional based on Austen's written prayers), and Jane Eyre by C. Bronte (a couple of decades off to really be considered a contemporary, but it's been years since I read it & now felt like a good time)

I suspect you're just being modest, Katie. We all are influenced by what we've read. How can we not be? But you've gained a fanbase here and will chum in readers by what YOU bring to the table, by the Katie Lumsden we see and listen to, and to the composition and editing talents you've brought to the task. Your variations on familiar themes will make this book sink or swim. I hope it floats far down the river.

This is making me really want to get into Trollope as I've read the other main authors mentioned. I remember immediately thinking Cranford when you gave us a synopsis. Can't wait for my copy to arrive.

Seeing you walking through the paintings at the National Gallery reminded me of a letter Jane Austen wrote to her sister in May 1813 while Jane was in London with her brother. They visited a number of exhibitions of paintings "Henry and I went to the exhibition in Spring Gardens. It is not thought a good collection, but I was very well pleased, particularly (pray tell Fanny) with a small portrait of Mrs. Bingley, excessively like her. I went in hopes of seeing one of her sister, but there was no Mrs. Darcy. Perhaps I may find her in the great exhibition, which we shall go to if we have time ... Mrs. Bingley's is exactly like herself,-size, shaped face, features and sweetness; there never was a greater likeness. She is dressed in a white gown, with green ornaments, which convinces me of what I had always supposed, that green was a favorite color with her. I dare say Mrs. D. will be in yellow." It's a shame that the impressionists that caught your eye were a little late for Mrs Bingley's (Jane Bennet as was) portrait. Jane Austen didn't find a picture of Mrs Darcy (Lizzie Bennett) in yellow. She speculated that "Mr D. prizes any picture of her too much to like it should be exposed to the public eye"