A look inside Wickham’s scheming mind on the day he meets Elizabeth in Meryton for the first time. November 20, 1811 Wickham appreciatively eyed the assets Miss Lydia Bennet purposely flaunted in front of him. If the flirtatious and forward Miss Lydia was an example of the pleasures Meryton had to offer, perhaps he would enjoy …
I didn’t intend to go hunting for Longbourn, but I like to have a mental image of a setting when I write. So when I started on Alone with Mr. Darcy, I wanted to find a picture of the road to Longbourn Darcy and Elizabeth would be walking along. Of course, it had to be the real road, so …
Just how proper were Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy? We all know that etiquette and proper behaviour were de riguer in the Regency period. Unmarried women had to be chaperoned at all time, they could not correspond with unmarried gentlemen, they were expected to be pure in mind and body, etc. But where there are human beings …
Pemberley, 1845 With satisfaction, Darcy scanned the crowd of friends and family gathered in the Pemberley dining room. It had been a good day. Darcy approved of the young lady of good family to whom Thomas was now safely married. Her impertinence sometimes dismayed him, but she reminded him of his Elizabeth when he had …
It is a truth universally acknowledged that many fans of Jane Austen’s characters are in want of a wedding night scene to read! We’ve collected a variety of them here from different authors for your reading pleasure. Here’s a teaser quote for each, plus a link to read the full scene. Darcy and …
It’s finally here! I can hardly believe it, but after all the delays and difficulties, ALONE WITH MR. DARCY is available at last! I feel like I’ve told you so much about this book over the last year that I have nothing left to say, but here’s the blurb: Elizabeth Bennet can’t imagine anything worse than …
Pray forgive me! The last time I posted here, I said my new book would be released December 1. I was wrong. Owing to a series of real-life setbacks, I lost over a month of work time, so now I’m aiming for mid to late January. But I’ll try to make it up to you by …
Since so many people enjoyed the last set of out-takes I posted, here is another set of scenes I had to cut from my new book. I hated cutting these since I really liked how they came out, so I’m glad to have the chance to share them. It also gives me an excuse to show off the …
The first draft of my new story Alone with Mr. Darcy is now over 55,000 words long (yay!). It’s been a slow process since Darcy and Elizabeth have been particularly rebellious about following the plot line, so I’ve had to cut long stretches of what I’ve written. It’s frustrating to edit out several weeks worth of writing, …
This week we’ve taken a couple of days to celebrate Pride & Prejudice: The Scenes Jane Austen Never Wrote, an anthology many of us participated in, by sharing a few of our favorite scenes from it. It started a couple of years ago with a project called P&P200 where we took turns writing missing scenes …
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