In case you haven’t heard yet, Love Finds You in Annapolis, Maryland is on sale until September 15! All digital versions are only $0.99, which is a waaaaaaaay lower price than it’s usual $8+. If you were waiting for the right time to get this one, it’s here. =)
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But as I was promoting the start of the sale while on vacation last week, I realized that I honestly couldn’t even remember parts of this book, LOL. I hadn’t read it since a few months before its release in fall of 2011, so I though, “Hey, I’m on vacation–I’m not working on anything else. Why not?” So I sat down and became reacquainted with Lark and Emerson and Wiley, with Edwinn and Sena and Kate and Alice.
And I also remembered one of my fun word finds. I mentioned it in a Remember When Wednesday post way back in January 2011, but I thought it deserved its own Word of the Week.
It started from wanting to describe a passel of boys on Christmas as rambunctious. The problem being that rambunctious wasn’t created until 1859–and this book is set in 1783. But etymonline.com helpfully pointed out that rambunctious was a later form of rumbunctious… though even that was from 1830. Still no help for me!
But! Rumbunctious is in turn a variation on a word from 1778–rumbustious. Etymologists don’t seem entirely certain of the origins on this word, but they suggest that it’s a combination of “rum + boisterous, robustious, bumptious.” And it worked for me! I figured it was close enough to rambunctious that no one would wonder at its meaning, but it also gave a certain something to the tone. =)
Of course, vacation is now over, and it’s back to the grind of school and editing for me and mine. But no fears–I’ve got some beach-inspired musings planned for later this week. 😉
Roseanna M. White is a bestselling, Christy Award winning author who has long claimed that words are the air she breathes. When not writing fiction, she’s homeschooling her two kids, editing, designing book covers, and pretending her house will clean itself. Roseanna is the author of a slew of historical novels that span several continents and thousands of years. Spies and war and mayhem always seem to find their way into her books…to offset her real life, which is blessedly ordinary.
I wish I was on the beach with inspired musings…or just musings…or just on the beach. 🙂