Author Information
Kat Jaske
Member since 27th September 2006
Occupation: writer, French teacher, English teacher Kat Jaske is an English and French teacher in Las Vegas, where her high school selected For Honor as the featured book for the 2006 Reading Incentive Program. Jaske's second book in the series, Gambit For Love of a Queen, and the third swashbuckling, adventure novel, Righting Time, also feature the musketeers, sword fighting, and the lady musketeer and spy, Laurel. See the author web site http://www.forhonor.com for more information.
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10th February 2007
. . . She sighed and rubbed her eyes with the palms of her hands as she recalled her rather unwise promise to Gerard. She was used to playing a lad; she'd been playing at being a lad for the greater part of her life since her father could not really carry...
29th January 2007
. . . "But I can't just turn them away. They have nowhere else to go, and you know what would happen if I were the only one on hand as the proprietor of this estate." The young aristocrat turned pleading blue eyes on the butler, all the while trying to ig...
15th January 2007
. . . The blond-haired woman struggled to push herself to her feet. Parbleu, she was weaker than a newborn babe even after all these months. Of course she supposed that she was incredibly lucky, to say the least, to have survived her plunge from th...
26th December 2006
. . . "Impatient and cocky," Porthos commented to no one in particular and then decided to take his version of pity on the young lad. He slung a brotherly arm around the youth and began a long narrative about when he had joined the musketeers and first me...
26th December 2006
SECTION ONE
1638 A.D.
He was an uncommonly attractive, intriguing man. And, yes, even beautiful, though the first person to tell him so would probably find a sword thrust through his or her gut. Well maybe not her gut. He was a gentleman. Per...
20th December 2006
. . . As soon as he could manage it, the man known as Mickael or Péale snatched away Christophe from his father. Wry amusement sparkled in Mickael's eyes. "You have always had quite a way with words. But you had best watch that colorful vocabulary of you...
20th December 2006
. . . Thomas made no sound. It was challenge enough for him to continue to put one foot in front of the other-forward little by little. Nom de nom! It felt good to allow himself to think in French again. He was old of a sudden. Or at least he felt ...
20th December 2006
Prologue
1636 A.D.
Chilling cold settled itself more fully upon the barren landscape. A bone-chilling type of cold that seemed to fuse itself into the marrow of one's being with an almost human bitterness. Not even the solace of falling snow ...
18th December 2006
So you want to write an exceptional historical fiction novel? Of course, you will need to dedicate a significant amount of time to the process of crafting the story and developing both endearing and dislikeable characters. But that’s not enough.
Ev...
18th December 2006
When writing a fiction novel, the author must craft a convincing, interesting story and create endearing or even dislikeable characters. However, creating a credible world backdrop for the characters and the story is just as crucial for writing a first-ra...
05th December 2006
Many beginning authors fall into the rigid mindset that, “I am the author. I create the story. I know how I want my story to end and what is going to occur along the way.” This isn’t always true. Your characters may sometimes have different ideas. T...
18th November 2006
Would you recognize your characters if you ran into them on the street?
Answering a resounding “yes” to this question indicates you have been able to develop solid, plausible characters in your fiction stories.
Make your characters come alive, w...
18th November 2006
Don’t let dialogue and punctuation marks outsmart you in creative fiction writing.
Dialogue between characters is one great way to engage in character development. Usage of quotes can become very complicated in your characters’ dialogue, but you do...
28th September 2006
How do I get started writing my story? Where do I get ideas for my creative fiction writing?
Get ideas from virtually any common, ordinary situation. Get out of your house to see real people and the real world and ideas will come from the most random p...
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