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Interview with Lucy Marin

Happy New Year! Also, my best wishes to you all for peace and dignity on this day celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. For me, 2023 is already off to a lovely start. Case in point? I have the great privilege of sharing this interview with our own Lucy Marin  as my first post of …

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The Truth About Family Release Day!

The Truth About Family is now available in e-book and via Kindle Unlimited, as well as in paperback! To celebrate, today, I have another excerpt to share with you. In the last excerpt, which you can find here , Lady Anne forced Elizabeth to go to Rosings. (The cover reveal and bonus material can be …

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New Year’s Resolutions with Jane

Happy New Year, dear readers!  I hope your 2023 has started out safe, healthy and prosperous! Many of us enjoy Pride and Prejudice as an insight into the Georgian culture; a romance with refinement; a testament to the sharp wit of a female writer. However, did we ever consider it to be a compass for …

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The Truth About Family Excerpt

Happy New Year! Thank you all for the warm welcome you gave to my first post on The Truth About Family, my new book, which is out next week (book, e-book, KU; the audiobook is will be out soonish, I hope). If you missed the cover reveal and bonus material I posted last month, you …

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A Sneak Peek at Mr. Knightley’s Story

It took me a while to get started, but now I’m making steady progress on what will become my 12th novel: Mr. Knightley in His Own Words. So today I want to share a brand new excerpt with you! – a scene from chapter one. This book won’t be simply a retelling of Emma from Mr. Knightley’s …

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A Christmas Scene from A Remedy Against Sin

Happy day-after Boxing Day! Am I allowed to wish you a happy Boxing Day even if I’m an American living in America who has never in her life celebrated Boxing Day? It’s one of those holidays that I’m sure I’ve romanticized, so if you do celebrate Boxing Day, I’d love to hear what the day …

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An Unexpected Merry Gentleman

Happy Holidays, Dear Readers! I don’t know about you, but I feel as if the season has snuck up on me. Between grading essays, football season and preparing for next term, I didn’t realize it was almost Christmas until…well…it was. There is nothing I love more during the month of December than to read a …

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‘Christmas Celebrations’: An Anthology of Jane Austen Short Stories

Cover of Christmas Celebrations Anthology stories by Monica Fairview, Joana Starnes and Leslie Diamond Dark starry night with a white tree

I’m very excited to let you know that I have a little GIFT for you for the Holiday Season. I have a FREE SHORT STORY in a Holiday-themed anthology. And I’m not the only one. Apart from me, are three other Austen Variations authors in the anthology: Joana Starnes, Marilyn Brant and Leslie Diamond. In …

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Mr. Darcy Steals a Kiss: Chapters 3 and 4

Mr. Darcy Steals a Kiss

Howdy from my corner of the world! How is everyone holding up this blustery December? Our weather here in Western Oregon has been predictably wet. Gray. Cold. But mostly wet. Sigh. Which is why I have been enjoying working on this bit of fluff this winter as a diversion from all things gray and yucky.  …

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The Truth About Family Cover Reveal & Bonus Scenes

I always love finally being able to tell people about a new book! It takes month (and months and months—haha) of work before I can talk to a selected handful of people about what I’m working on, and it’s tough to keep quiet. Today, I’m pleased to introduce you to The Truth About Family. Be …

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