Monica is an author with nomadic tendencies who believes in drinking tea to Stay Calm. She has lived almost as many years in the USA as in the UK. Her favorite things to do are visiting historical sites here in the UK and snuggling up with a good book when it's raining. She dislikes zombies like the plague, and avoids them if at all possible. Monica writes serious, comical and fantasy Pride and Prejudice Variations. Her most popular books are Fortune and Felicity (serious), the Dangerous Magic series (magical fantasy, also serious), and Longbourn Entanglement (comical novella). Which makes her mostly a serious writer, but she loves to laugh. She lives with the delusional idea that her two cats are telepathic. Which they are.

Most commented posts

  1. Mr. Darcy’s Pledge: Cover Reveal — 174 comments
  2. Mr. Darcy and the Enchanted Library: Release and Giveaway!! — 110 comments
  3. Mr. Darcy’s Challenge Launch — 99 comments
  4. Dangerous Magic Book 2: Threads of Magic Cover Reveal and Giveaway — 92 comments
  5. Cover Reveal, Mr. Darcy’s Challenge — 70 comments

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WIP news: What am I working on?

You’re probably be wondering whether I’m going to give an update on the release date of my third novel in my Dangerous Magic series. Alas, all I can report is that I’m working on it as diligently as possible, and I’ll let you know as soon as I’m sure of the release date. But for …

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Celebrating Threads of Magic release with a Giveaway🎉!!!

Hello Everyone! I’m very excited to be celebrating the release of Threads of Magic here on Austen Variations as part of my blog tour. Well, my second book in my series Mr. Darcy’s Magic is now out, and I’m already working on the next one. Some of you have been asking how many books there …

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Threads of Magic: Excerpt

Hello everyone. I hope your New Year has been going well so far. I know some of you have been having an unexpectedly snowy time of it, but I hope it’s been a pleasant experience overall. Personally, I’m looking forward to Spring and longer days.  I dropped off my daughter yesterday at her university, Royal …

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Happy New Year! Dangerous Magic Giveaway Winners

Announcing the giveaway winners!  I originally was planning to give away only TWO e-books, but there were so many people who were interested, I decided to give away not two but SIX copies! Hey, it’s the New Year, so I’m feeling generous… 😉 I hope you enjoy Dangerous Magic! Eva Edmonds tgruy Sabrina Cathi Susanne …

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Dangerous Magic Book 2: Threads of Magic Cover Reveal and Giveaway

Today I’m thrilled to share the cover of my latest book, Threads of Magic. This is Book 2 of Dangerous Magic: A Pride and Prejudice Variation.  It’s been a long time coming, but I can now finally reveal that it will available for pre-order on December 25th! That should be an easy date to remember …

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Happy Thanksgiving – from Hunsford?

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you in the USA! I hope you have many things in your life to be thankful for! Here in the UK we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, but we do have a Harvest Festival of Thanksgiving which dates back in different forms to the middle ages. Plays that represented the figure of …

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A Longbourn Entanglement: Release day + challenge + giveaway

A Longbourn Entanglement A comic Pride and Prejudice novella

The novella is now live on Amazon, and I really can’t wait to share it with all of you. I’m dying to know what you think! If you’ve read Fortune and Felicity, you’ll discover quickly that the two stories are pretty different. For one thing, A Longbourn Entanglement is quite absurd. For another,  a great …

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A Longbourn Entanglement: Now available for pre-order!

Finally it’s here: my short and sweet Pride and Prejudice comic variation!!! I’ve been wanting to release this novella for some time now. I started writing it before I began Dangerous Magic, but then I got side-tracked with the magic and put this one on the backburner.  I’ve been working on it in-between writing Book …

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A Sneak Peek: Entangled, A Short Pride and Prejudice Variation

Pride & Prejudice Variation Entangled Monica Fairview

Hi everyone, I hope the summer is treating you well. Here in London we’ve had a heatwave lasting around ten days followed by torrential rain and flooding yesterday. At least the plums in our garden are ripe. We picked the first batch this afternoon.  I wonder whether Elizabeth and Darcy liked plums? If they did, …

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Mrs. Bennet, Lady Catherine and Lady Susan: Are Mothers Villains in Jane Austen?

Are mothers in Jane Austen good or bad?

In keeping with the Mothers in May theme of our blog this month, I’d like to start up a discussion about Mothers and Mentors in Jane Austen. A good friend of mine told me a few weeks ago that she didn’t like Jane Austen because all the mothers in her novels are bad in one …

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