Sarah Courtney

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Austen Variations 2025 Advent Calendar

Welcome to the 2025 Austen Variations Advent Calendar, where our amazing authors will bring you a new gift every day from now until December 24th. Ready to try your hand at a new challenge! It’s the Pride and Prejudice Word Search! Click on the link or image to try it out. How many Pride and …

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Austen Variations 2025 Advent Calendar

Welcome to the 2025 Austen Variations Advent Calendar, where our amazing authors will bring you a new gift every day from now until December 24th. For today’s gift, unwrap a Pride and Prejudice-themed crossword puzzle from Sarah Courtney! Think you are an expert on Pride and Prejudice and the Regency? Try this puzzle and find …

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Prelude to Pemberley: Georgiana reads Darcy’s letters from Netherfield

Welcome to our Pride & Prejudice prequel! P&P: Prelude to Pemberley tells the story of the time leading up to the events of Pride & Prejudice, including what Darcy and Elizabeth were doing and thinking, Georgiana Darcy’s story, the events of Ramsgate, how Mr. Bingley came to lease Netherfield, and much more! Join us on …

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Walking in the footsteps of Jane

I had the delightful opportunity this past summer to visit England with my 12-year-old daughter, and we had a wonderful time visiting some of the places where Jane Austen once lived, walked, and wrote her books. This year is the 250th anniversary of her birth, and it sometimes felt as though all of England was …

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Prelude to Pemberley: Darcy and Georgiana talk about the Bingleys

Welcome to our Pride & Prejudice prequel! P&P: Prelude to Pemberley tells the story of the time leading up to the events of Pride & Prejudice, including what Darcy and Elizabeth were doing and thinking, Georgiana Darcy’s story, the events of Ramsgate, how Mr. Bingley came to lease Netherfield, and much more! Join us on …

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How to write a book about blackmail . . . without calling it blackmail

One of the interesting challenges for JAFF writers is the ever-evolving nature of the English language. All languages change over time, leaving modern French speakers trying to read Old French, like the Eulalia text: Buona pulcella fut eulalia./ Bel auret corps bellezour anima/ Voldrent la veintre li deo Inimi. almost as lost as your average …

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Soul Marks for Soul Mates

We fanfic writers love to play around with the soul mate idea. It sounds lovely in some ways–two people who are meant for each other, destined to find each other and fulfill each other’s every emotional need. In real life, most people probably don’t believe in soul mates. I personally believe that one could find …

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Finding time to write

Have you seen that meme going around about Ursula Le Guin’s writing schedule? Some writers are early birds and swear by waking up early and getting things done while they are fresh and the world is new. Others are night owls, doing their best writing as the world quiets around them. I have six children, …

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Fairy Tales and Jane Austen Variations

I have to confess, adult I may be, but I still love fairy tales! Who doesn’t enjoy a good Cinderella story, whether it’s a romantic comedy or a football team turning things around to win the Superbowl? Fairy tales appeal to some of our deepest longings—to be seen as beautiful even when we look or …

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Early sneak peek of “Threatened By Turns”

One of my favorite kinds of Jane Austen variations is when we have a story that follows all or part of the plot of the original story, except that there is something going on in the background that changes everything. From stories in which Elizabeth and Darcy are secretly married before they meet at the …

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