Category: Kara Louise

Christmas Book Release

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2 WINNERS OF MY PAPERBACK! Wendy M Luther and Jeannette Klemen I will be contacting you by email to get your mailing information. Happy Launch Week! Thanks for joining me for the launch of my newest book, “Frosted Window Panes.” Why ‘Launch Week?’ Well, it’s always a guessing game when the paperback …

Continue reading

Frosted Window Panes

I am excited to be here again! I have been absent for some time – well, here but not here. I had to take a step back a few years ago because of varying circumstances, but I am excited to let you know that I have a new book coming out! The book is a …

Continue reading

JAFF Loves Ukraine update

Wow! Our Austenesque community is so amazing!!! Between 35 authors and hundreds of readers, we’ve already raised over $7000  $8000 $9000 for humanitarian aid to Ukraine on our original fundraiser post! Give yourselves a big hand! But the need is far too great to rest on our laurels, so our authors have pulled out even …

Continue reading

JAFF Loves Ukraine Fundraiser

New: There’s a new post with updates! Like most of the world,  we’ve been feeling heart-heavy over the tragedy in Ukraine, even more so as Elizabeth Adams, one of our authors, lived in Ukraine and is married to a Ukrainian.  We want to do what we can to help out, so we’re turning to you, …

Continue reading

Retrospective: Looking Back at Our 2020 Releases

Happy New Year! 2020 was a very difficult year for everyone, so I think it’s important for us to celebrate the achievement of all the authors who were somehow able to make their way through writing a book (or more than one, as it so happens!). It is no mean feat, I can tell you, …

Continue reading

Encounter to Remember Chapter 2

Congratulations to the winners of Encounter to Remember giveaway! Mary A Coble won the paperback, and Lara and Linny B won an ebook. I will be contacting soon you by email! Today is LAUNCH DAY of  the “Encounter to Remember” kindle, and here is Chapter 2.  (The paperback went live two days ago!) If you …

Continue reading

Encounter to Remember Chapter 1

Congratulations to the winners of Encounter to Remember giveaway! Mary A Coble won the paperback, and Lara and Linny B won an ebook. I will be contacting soon you by email! Greetings everyone! It seems forever since I have posted here, and if you have been wondering where I have been, I took a step …

Continue reading

Twelve Days of Christmas, Day 6

On the sixth day of Christmas my true love gave to me… well, the song says “Six geese a-laying,” but what did Jane Austen give us that is in sixes? She gave us 6 wonderful novels. And we are so grateful for that, although we wished she could have written more!  For my post today, …

Continue reading

Jane Austen Festival

The members of JASNA St. Louis and other Jane Austen aficionados were recently treated to a Jane Austen Festival, the weekend of December 6-8. It was put on by the Repertory Theatre (Browning Theater) of St. Louis, Webster University, and JASNA – St. Louis. Throughout the day on Saturday and Sunday, there were many activities …

Continue reading

Becoming a Pirate

Welcome to our Austen Variations Monthly Theme – Fantastical Austen! You will find just about anything goes this month!  My one mash-up novel was ‘Pirates and Prejudice’ and I thought I would share an excerpt from it. How does one prepare to become a pirate, especially if you are the fastidious Fitzwilliam Darcy? When he …

Continue reading

Load more