Joseph P. Garland
@jpgarlandauthor
JPGarlandAuthor Stories in the Gilded Age, modern NY, Austen variations. Erotic romances. He/him. Tuckahoe NY native. NY lawyer. My books: (Dermody is my father's mom's first surname; the second was Campbell.)
Several of my stories are set in Bronxville. I grew up just down the street from the border and live close by. Strolling the City posted a video, part of the Village. It includes Alex Locus's neighborhood. @reneegendron.bsky.social @anelsonlmpotter.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODlm...
Actually, Peter and Amy met on a Park Avenue sidewalk, agreeing to go to a Starbucks to try to sort things out. I don't know that "fate" (vs. agency) is what they're looking for (I had an off-board exchange), though one can always go with the "Sliding Doors"--with its great last line--discussion.
This cover won't even suggest that my two MCs, an Irish immigrant who becomes a nurse and the youngest daughter in a fashionable family that went bankrupt in 1873 evolve into a relationship in which they become the parents of the Irish woman's orphaned nephew.
I've cut the prices for my hardcovers on Amazon to about $1 over cost, to encourage people to buy them. Here are two books I've published this year, "Redemption" and "Disfigured," and my third Gilded Age novel, "A Maid's Life," with a new cover.
A new addition to my Gilded Age series. (These paintings are made available for any use by the museums that own them: It happens that the first one is from the Cleveland Museum of Art and the other three are from The Metropolitan Museum.)
A new cover for my 3rd Gilded Age novel as I finish up on my fourth. Your basic Irish-emigrant, maid, factory worker, nun, teacher, financial advisor story. With a kidnapping and fugitive escape, murder mystery, rich-American-buying-a-Ladyship, and ultimately requited love thrown in along the way.
Emma and Louie waiting for a FedEx delivery in a NYC suburb.
As in life, my books often make passing Austen references. In "Redemption," a contemporary, one MC gets lost in "Persuasion" when she's at a massive house (not hers) in the Hamptons. Since the owner is a wealthy but shy man, there must be a P&P reference, the "she" here being a platonic friend:
As of now, no stories on this today, searching for "Barksdale," in @nytimes.com
My most recent contemporary has an MC taking the 6 train to work in midtown Manhattan on a rainy Monday morning. This WIP set 140 years before has my MC on an Elevated train heading down Third Avenue to her job at a bookshop on Bleecker Street. #WednesdayWIP
After a few internal revisions, I decided to go with a new cover:
Here's something on deBlacking certain works in the early 19th Century:
Dickens directed that later editions of Martin Chuzzlewit include the text of a speech in which he apologized for how he described Americans in that novel.
This is a first. Someone apparently bought all three of my Gilded Age novels (a fourth is on the way).
On trans rights and ignoring federal court orders. @ericturkewitz.bsky.social @jtfdenver.bsky.social
I'm pleased to be part of the Second Annual Sapphic Shelf Explosion. It's a collection of Sapphic books in various genres. Each book is priced at either zero or $0.99. Check them out. All the books have been placed into categories; mine is in Literary Fiction. yearofqueerlit.com/2026/02/24/t...
My first Gilded Age Novel, "Róisín Campbell," is on sale in ebook form for $0.99 as part of the YearOfQueerLit promotion. Check it and the other books out at yearofqueerlit.com
Bookshop.org has just appeared as a distributor on Draft2Digital. If you sign up to Bookshop, you can designate a local bookstore and it will get a portion of the revenue for a book you purchase.
Regarding the date typo, it was filed today. From first page: