Joana Starnes

Joana Starnes lives in the south of England with her family. She swapped several hats over the years – physician, lecturer, clinical data analyst – but feels most comfortable in a bonnet. She has been living in Regency England for decades in her imagination, and plans to continue in that vein till she lays hands on a time machine. She loves to look for glimpses of Pemberley and Jane Austen’s world, and to write about Regency England and Mr Darcy falling in love with Elizabeth Bennet over and over and over again. She is the author of twelve Austen-inspired novels: From This Day Forward ~ The Darcys of Pemberley, The Subsequent Proposal, The Second Chance, The Falmouth Connection, The Unthinkable Triangle, Miss Darcy’s Companion, Mr Bennet’s Dutiful Daughter, The Darcy Legacy, The Journey Home To Pemberley, A Timely Elopement, Twists of Fate and Snowbound. Joana is also one of the contributing authors to the Quill Ink anthologies.

Most commented posts

  1. Coming Soon ~ The Journey Home To Pemberley — 189 comments
  2. New Year, New Book — 154 comments
  3. ‘Twists of Fate’ ~ Excerpt and Giveaway — 153 comments
  4. Coming soon, Macaroons! — 152 comments
  5. Cover Reveal, Excerpt & Ongoing Giveaway — 126 comments

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A Good Harvest

Hello again! Well, ’tis the season to pick apples and blackberries and plums and make jams, cakes and crumbles, but this post is about a different sort of harvest. This summer, my family and I went walking in Derbyshire again. While we were there I did my best to keep my camera in my pocket …

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Up the Garden Path

This month’s theme had me thinking that garden scenes don’t feature very often in my books, and that’s probably because ornamental gardens are rather too close to the house. Not much chance for privacy, for meaningful talks (and hopefully a swoon-worthy kiss, or several) if our dear characters are strolling under Lady Catherine’s windows or Miss …

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Twists of Fate ~ Launch and Giveaway Winners

  It’s Twists of Fate launch day!   If you pre-ordered the book, I hope it’s already downloaded to your Kindle and awaiting your reading pleasure. If you’d like to order it now, please follow the link to Amazon and find the eBook here (the paperback will be released soon). Early reviews are already in …

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Twists of Fate Giveaway & Murphy’s Law: the JAFF Version

Good morning, and thanks for stopping by today as I’m callously preparing to ruin Mr Darcy’s wedding day. If you missed any of the posts on the TWISTS OF FATE blog tour, you can find them here: A ride in the rain; A fiery Mr Darcy; A very un-Hunsford-like proposal; Breaking the wall of silence and …

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‘Twists of Fate’ ~ Excerpt and Ongoing Giveaway

  Good morning! Thanks for joining me today for a second excerpt from TWISTS OF FATE, due for release in less than a month – but read at your peril, for there be spoilers! Still, I hope you won’t mind a few teensy-weensy ones. If you missed the first excerpt, you can find it here. …

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‘Twists of Fate’ ~ Excerpt and Giveaway

Good morning! Well, I’m finally getting somewhere with my next book, and I was wondering if you’d like to hear a little more about the story. If you’ve seen my earlier posts, you already know the premise: What if Mr Collins were to shock Elizabeth with his base conduct at the time of his proposal, …

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Freebies, ‘Coming Soon’ & A Scatterbrained Mamma

Good morning! Thanks for stopping by for a chat today. I think you’ve already guessed which scatter-brained mamma I’m thinking of.       Poor Mrs Bennet! In a time when no one had any understanding of genetics, it was regarded as the woman’s fault, and she was seen as having failed her husband, if …

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Sonnets and Bonnets

    When ‘Sonnets and Bonnets’ was chosen as this month’s theme, the first one I could think of was the sonnet that seems to say it all about the guiding thread in Pride and Prejudice:       Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters …

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Wickham’s Comeuppance: How shall we punish him?

There are some characters we simply love to hate: Lady Catherine, Miss Bingley, Wickham. I hope you enjoyed Lady Catherine’s comeuppance in Shannon Winslow’s post the other day. So delicious! A few years ago, I posted a couple of short stories where I poked fun at Miss Bingley. If you haven’t read them, these links will …

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Looking Back, Looking Forward

Hi! I hope you’ve enjoyed the Austen Variation posts on ‘January 2021 Retrospective and Prospective’. The ‘looking back’ part of my post is going to be pretty short, mostly because I’ve spent most of 2020 looking back and thinking of the times when we were free to roam, meet, hug, chat and have tea and …

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