With Valentine’s Day, love is in the air. And it’s a Leap Year besides! So we’re celebrating all this month with romantic excerpts and special giveaways! Today it’s my turn, and I have a romantic ‘Darcy and Elizabeth’ chapter from The Darcys of Pemberley, my first (and still most popular) novel. Even if you’ve read …
Although most of us have only seen the combined episodes 1 & 2 of Sanditon so far, that’s all we need to go ahead with our Followup. These Sanditon Group Read posts have focused on Jane Austen’s 12 chapters, and the show has already breezed through that material. Swish! If you nodded off for a …
It’s time to look at the last section of Jane Austen’s final, incomplete novel: Sanditon. (If you’re just joining the Group Read today, you may want to review the Introduction here and Part One here, Part Two here, and Part Three here to get caught up.) Chapter 10 I had just been wondering what was really going on …
I trust you’ve been enjoying our 12-Days-of-Christmas posts with all the excellent giveaways! Here’s day 10, followed by the next installment of the Sanditon Group Read. You may have taken down your tree and moved on. But it’s still Christmas here at Austen Variations! We’re up to day ten, marked in the song by TEN …
As you can see from the title of this post, I’m doing double duty here today! We’ll get to our Sanditon discussion in a moment, but let’s talk Christmas first! In the famous old song, the third day gift is (sing it with me) “…three French hens…” But I’m not sure what the Austen …
We’re off and running with our group reading of Jane Austen’s unfinished last novel Sanditon! (If you missed the introduction to this series, read it here to get caught up) I hope you enjoyed the first three chapters as I did. I’ve only read this delightful fragment once before, several years ago now, so I …
Several months ago, tremendous excitement overtook the Jane Austen world when we learned there would soon be an entirely new film adaptations coming our way! Not only was this one going to be based on a never-before-attempted Jane Austen work (her unfinished novel Sanditon), but it was being written by Andrew Davies, talented screenwriter of …
Woohoo! It’s book launch day for Prayer and Praise: A Jane Austen Devotional! It’s been well over a year since I had a new release, not because I haven’t been writing, but because, for a change, I’ve been working on more than one project at once – a short story, a play, and another novel …
Your Austen Variations authors have so much going on this month (with new releases, etc.) that there haven’t been many posts so far using this month’s theme: Fantastical Austen, where the strange and paranormal are meant to be featured. I imaging that will change, as we now drawing closer to Halloween, though. For my contribution, …
Normally I wouldn’t have much first-hand info to report on storms from the first half of September. In fact, we often have some of our nicest weather this month. Yes, a few spots of the rain Seattle is famous for, but lots of sun and warm temperatures too. This year has been different, however. We’ve …
Recent Comments