Forthcoming Book: Plant Lovers Guide to Clematis, Timber Press, March 2016

http://www.amazon.com/Plant-Lovers-Guide-Clematis/dp/1604696591/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1451940726&sr=8-1&keywords=Plant+Lovers+guide+to+clematis

Including a directory of nearly 200 clematis for any and every garden use!

Think of my newly published short story, The Incomplete Education of Fitzwilliam Darcy, as a prequel of sorts to A Will of Iron, Longbourn to London, The Red Chrysanthemum, and even Pride and Prejudice itself! This new story is included in the just-debuted Sun-Kissed: Effusions of Summer antholgy, published by Meryton Press. Reading my story will get you all warmed up for A Will of Iron, my new novel! http://www.amazon.com/dp/1936009447

It's Here: A Will of Iron by Linda Beutler

The untimely death of Anne de Bourgh, only days after his disastrous proposal at the Hunsford parsonage, draws Fitzwilliam Darcy and his cousin Colonel Alexander Fitzwilliam back to Rosings Park before Elizabeth Bennet has left the neighborhood. In death, Anne is revealed as having lived a rich life of the mind, plotting rather constantly to escape her loathsome mother, Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Anne's journal, spirited into the hands of Charlotte Collins and Elizabeth, holds Anne's candid observations on life and her family. It also explains her final quirky means of outwitting her mother. Anne's Last Will and Testament, with its peculiar bequests, upheaves every relationship amongst the Bennets, Darcys, Fitzwilliams, Collinses, and even the Bingleys! Was Anne de Bourgh a shrewder judge of character than Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy combined?

A Will of Iron is in the editing phase now, and we hope to release it in late May or early June, 2015.

Available NOW in Amazon's Kindle store, The Red Chrysanthemum by Linda Beutler, (Meryton Press. 2014 IPPY WINNER, Silver Medal for Romance, Independent Publishers Association; Longbourn to London (2014, Meryton Press).

Linda Beutler is an Oregon native who began writing professionally in 1996 (meaning that is when they started paying her...), in the field of garden writing. First published in magazines, Linda graduated to book authorship in 2004 with the publication of Gardening With Clematis (2004, Timber Press). In 2007 Timber Press presented her second title, Garden to Vase, a partnership with garden photographer Allan Mandell. In 2013 Linda began working with a new publisher, and writing in a completely different direction. Funny how life works out, but more on that in a minute.

Linda lives the gardening life: she is a part-time instructor in the horticulture department at Clackamas Community College, writes and lectures about gardening topics throughout the USA, and is traveling the world through her active participation in the International Clematis Society, of which she is the current president. Then there's that dream job--which she is sure everyone else must covet but which she alone has--Linda Beutler is the curator of the Rogerson Clematis Collection, which is located at Luscher Farm, a farm/park maintained by the city of Lake Oswego. They say to keep resumes brief, but Linda considers Garden With Clematis (Timber Press, 2004) her 72,000 word resume. She signed on as curator to North America's most comprehensive and publicly accessible collection of the genus clematis in July 2007, and they will no doubt not get shut of her until she can be carried out in a pine box.

And now for something completely different: in September 2011, Linda checked out a book of Jane Austen fan fiction from her local library, and was, to put it in the modern British vernacular, gob smacked. After devouring every title she could get her hands on, she quite arrogantly decided that, in some cases, she could do better, and began writing her own expansions and variations of Pride and Prejudice. The will to publish became too tempting, and after viewing the welcoming Meryton Press website, she printed out the first three chapters of her book, and out it went, a child before the firing squad. Luckily, the discerning editors at Meryton Press saved the child from slaughter, and Linda's first work of Jane Austen-esque fiction, The Red Chrysanthemum, was ready for publication in September 2013.

Linda shares a small garden in Southeast Portland with her husband, and pets that function as surrogate children. Her personal collection of clematis numbers something around 230 taxa. These are also surrogate children, and just as badly behaved.