Thank you for opening the third “window” on the Jane Austen Variations advent calendar! Today is the final chapter of my Pride and Prejudice based short story Mr. Collins’s Last Supper – the tongue-in-cheek tale of how that pompous clergyman learned (too late) why gluttony is considered one of the “seven deadly sins.” In case …
Thank you for opening the second “window” on the Jane Austen Variations advent calendar! Today’s prize is part two (of three) of my Pride and Prejudice based short story Mr. Collins’s Last Supper – the tongue-in-cheek tale of how that pompous clergyman learned (too late) why gluttony is considered one of the “seven deadly sins.” …
Do you remember the days – before the internet and everything digital – when a simple Advent Calendar added joy and excitement to the weeks leading up to Christmas? Every day you would open up a new window to discover something special inside. Well, we’re doing our own version of that Advent Calendar here at …
No, this is not really a post recommending reading side-by-side with another person, enjoyable as that is. This is about the concept of reading two books side-by-side. Not just any two books, though, but a pair especially made to go together: “companion” novels. Allow me to explain. I wrote my fifth novel, Miss Georgiana Darcy …
When you tumble down a rabbit hole, like Alice did, you’re embarking on an unexpected and probably convoluted journey. You’re going to run across some surprising things, and it may take you a while to find your way back to where you began. That sometimes occurs when you’re writing. You come to a point where …
This month, we will be sharing some scattered posts on the theme The Pleasure of a Good Book, which hearkens back to this quote from Henry Tilney in Northanger Abbey: “The person … who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid. I have read Mrs. Radcliffe’s works, and most of them with …
It’s time for the July edition of Interview with a Janeite! This month, our guest is a lady well known in the Austen community, Anji Dale. Her hostess is our very own Shannon Winslow, and they had a great chat. Take it away, ladies! AV: Tell us a little about your family and background. …
Do you cheer for the underdog? I do. Are you one who roots for the less-popular-but-totally-worthy girl to get the guy in the end? It makes such a satisfying story when someone succeeds against all odds, when people finally acknowledge the merits of one who was wrongly overlooked before. I long to see the so-called …
“That’s a wrap!” Isn’t that what the director shouts when the last scene has been shot and it’s time to go home? It has to be a bittersweet moment. Everybody on the set has worked hard for months. They’re exhausted and desperately in need of rest. And yet, if it’s been a great project, it …
The Ladies of Rosings Park has been out for a month now, and it’s doing well! For those of you who don’t have your own copy yet, I continued posting chapters here every Monday. But now we’ve reached the end of the time period covered in Pride and Prejudice (Part One of the book). So this is your …
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