Category: Kara Louise

Mr. Darcy’s Rival Launch

You Are Invited to Celebrate with Me! It is with great delight that I announce the launch for Mr. Darcy’s Rival! The book started showing up in online booksellers last week, and is now available online on Amazon (paperback and kindle), on Barnes and Noble (paperback and nook), and the iBookstore. It will also be …

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Coincidentally Speaking

While I wait for Mr. Darcy’s Rival launch, which is next Thursday, June 4 (the Kindle is now on pre-order, and other formats may go live sooner!), I thought I would take a look at the coincidences we see in Pride and Prejudice. According to the dictionary, the word coincidence means: ‘a striking occurrence of two or …

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Mr. Darcy’s Rival Chapter 5b

Today was just going to be my final excerpt before my book launch next month, but I have another surprise. I also have the cover reveal for “Mr. Darcy’s Rival”  which I hope to have available by the beginning of June. The cover still needs a little tweaking, but here it is. I hope you like …

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P&P Missing Scenes – Darcy Finds Out Elizabeth is at Hunsford

Jane Austen does not tell us when and how Darcy discovered that Elizabeth was at Hunsford. We only know that somehow he found out. Here is how I envision the scene.   As the carriage turned onto the drive that led to Rosings, Darcy looked out the window and let out a gruff laugh. “I do …

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Mr. Darcy’s Rival Excerpt Chap. 5

I have been posting excerpts from my upcoming novel, Mr. Darcy’s Rival. Here is a link to the other two posts: Excerpt 1  and Excerpt 2. The segment I am posting here is from Chapter 5, after Darcy has learned that Elizabeth is at Hunsford. Mr. Rickland has suggested that he and Colonel Fitzwilliam join him to …

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Anniversary Celebration: Revisiting Charles and Mary Musgrove

  It’s our anniversary, and we’re in the mood to celebrate! Throughout February, we’re commemorating the success of Austen Variations‘ first year by dropping in on some of our favorite Austen couples on their anniversaries. We started with the Darcys and the Bingleys on the 2nd. Today, we’re visiting the Mary and Charles Musgrove. In …

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Persuasion 200: Captain Wentworth sees Anne and Lady Russell

The following morning Anne was out with her friend, and for the first hour, in an incessant and fearful sort of watch for him in vain; but at last, in returning down Pulteney Street, she distinguished him on the right hand pavement at such a distance as to have him in view the greater part …

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An Excerpt from Mr Darcy’s Rival Ch 3

In December I posted an excerpt from my current WIP, “Mr. Darcy’s Rival” for you, and today I’m posting a portion of Chapter 3, when Darcy and his cousin come to Rosings. As ‘real life’ continues to get in the way of me finishing it (in the form of a precious granddaughter, who is now 8 …

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Jane in January – P&P Missing Scene – Dinner Party

We’re in week 2 of our ‘Jane in January’ event and hope you are enjoying our special focus on “Pride and Prejudice.”     Darcy’s activities during the winter months of “Pride and Prejudice” are not mentioned by Jane Austen, and we can only conjecture what he may have done. In this scene, he and Georgiana have …

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Persuasion 200: The Wentworth Brothers

Towards the end of “Persuasion,” Capt. Wentworth talks to Anne, telling her that when he realized the expectations others had regarding him and Louisa, he determined to leave Lyme, and subsequently Kellynch, to visit his brother, Edward. He hoped that his absence would diminish any feelings of attachment Louisa may have had towards him or …

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