Category: Nicole Clarkston

The Mirror at Northmere Launch Celebration and Giveaway

Why I Sent Darcy and Elizabeth Somewhere Pemberley Couldn’t Save Them Today is release day for The Mirror at Northmere, the third book in the Everbound Chronicles. It is, like its predecessors, a Regency romantasy and a Jane Austen variation — and like its predecessors, it begins with a question I could not answer inside …

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The Lantern Keeper’s Promise Launch

The Story Behind The Lantern Keeper’s Promise The Myths That Haunt This Story   Sea Brides, Lost Coasts, and Why Darcy Ran to the Edge of England Every coastal culture has a version of the same story. Someone goes into the sea. The sea keeps them. And the people left on shore have to decide how …

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Confessions & Correspondence: Darcy Writes in his Journal after Discovering Elizabeth at Rosings

  Welcome to our epistolary retelling of Pride & Prejudice! Jane Austen’s original version of the story, First Impression, was told entirely in letters, so it seemed like a great group project. We’ll be posting a new letter every Wednesday.    Private Journal of Fitzwilliam Darcy 25 March 1813 — Rosings Park, Kent The journey …

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The Lady of the Thorn Launch

The Story Behind The Lady of the Thorn A Regency Romance Rooted in Arthurian Legend There are certain legends that never truly leave us. They linger at the edges of the countryside — in thorn trees that bloom when they should not, in rivers that feel older than their banks, in family stories that refuse …

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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. A Very Accidental Mistletoe: Part 2 The week after Christmas at Netherfield had been a parade of gentle absurdities. First: Lydia had declared that “we must begin celebrating at once,” …

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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. A Very Accidental Mistletoe: Part One Someone—Lydia, almost certainly Lydia—had declared that every doorway in Netherfield must have mistletoe, and now the entire house looked as though a flock of …

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P&P Prelude to Pemberley: Georgiana Has Feelings

Georgiana Has Feelings September 10, 1811 — Darcy House, London The morning room felt stuffy and dry. Georgiana sat near the window where the light was strongest, a half-finished sampler balanced in her lap. She was meant to be working on a border of small green leaves, but she had lost count somewhere near the …

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Make Your Play Launch and Giveaway

🎉 Book Launch Day: After some unfortunate delays on my end, Make Your Play is Here! 🎉 It started with a jest. A silly, offhand bargain between two people who could barely stand each other: If we’re both still single in five years, we’ll marry each other. Naturally, Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy never expected …

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P&P Prelude to Pemberley: Georgiana’s new Household

Georgiana’s New Household May 7, 1811 The moment the sea came into view, Georgiana pressed her nose to the glass like a child. The coach had been groaning over hills for the better part of the afternoon, and the rutted lanes leading into Ramsgate had begun to wear on her nerves—but now, at last, the …

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P&P Prelude to Pemberley: George Wickham Persuades Mrs. Younge

George Wickham Persuades Mrs. Younge April 30, 1811 The whisky was not his favorite, but it was cheap, which suited George Wickham’s mood well enough. He slouched deeper into the battered armchair, boot propped on the opposite seat, cradling the cut glass like a relic of better days. A scorched log shifted in the grate, …

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