Affiliated Authors

Marilyn Brant

         Marilyn Brant has been told she writes with honesty, liveliness, and wit (descriptors she’s grown terribly fond of) about complex, intelligent women — like her friends — and their significant personal relationships. Although her favorite pursuits undoubtedly involve books, she proves she’s not just a literary snob by confessing her lifelong …

Mary Lydon Simonsen

I first became acquainted with Jane Austen when I was a senior in high school in the late 1960s in northern New Jersey. As soon as I finished reading Pride and Prejudice, I went on an Austen marathon and read all of her books one after the other. Little did I know that forty years …

Melanie Stanford

  Melanie Stanford didn’t get into Jane Austen until, as a teenager, she walked in on her older sister watching Pride & Prejudice right in the moment where Elizabeth first sees Mr. Darcy’s beautiful grounds at Pemberley. She was hooked on all things Austen then and there. Her first novel, SWAY, is a modern-day retelling …

Susan Mason-Milks

You might be surprised to learn that when Susan read Pride and Prejudice for the first time in the eighth grade, she was not impressed! That changed when she saw the now famous 1995 mini-series version of the story. Deciding to give Austen another chance, she read all the novels and fell in love. Her …