Hi, everyone! Hope you’re having a lovely and sunny morning. I’m Joana Starnes, this is my first post at Austen Variations and I’m honoured and super-excited to join the team! I might as well have started the post with ‘Hi, I’m Joana Starnes, and I am a JAFF addict. I hope to stay a JAFF …
Maria Lucas speaks her mind with a most surprising observation. Part 4 For the next four days, Mr. Johnstone appeared like clockwork, at half past eleven every morning, exactly the time she was most likely to quit from her studies and turn to other pursuits. Some days, just to be contrary, she lingered another quarter …
It’s here! I can’t believe release day is so close. It’s a crazy busy time but I’m so excited to show you what I’ve been working on. I hope everyone loves it as much as I do. First thing is first! The cover! I couldn’t resist featuring Grunt. I found some illustrations on a stock …
Books are everywhere in Pride and Prejudice, once you start looking for them, and it is interesting to consider how Jane Austen uses her characters’ book choices and reading habits to shed light on themselves. She does this as intentionally and skillfully as she does everything, and reveals much about her characters, often to hilarious …
I can’t imagine a life without books. When people tell me they don’t read, I try reallllly hard to keep any kind of expression off my face, while inwardly thinking, WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU??? Books are my happy place. Reading them, writing them, hugging them… whatever it is they make me smile. So recently, a big …
The unmitigated gall! He didn’t just do that, did he? Part 3 Three days later, Mary sat in the parlor, The Moral Miscellany open in a sunbeam on the table before her, and a sheet of paper crosswritten before her. Her handwriting was not nearly as pretty as Jane’s or as legible as Lizzy’s, but …
Tea with Jane Austen by Kim Wilson In Flagstaff, Arizona, where I live, some of the leaves are starting to turn, and the temperatures at night are dropping into the forties. All during the summer, I drink iced tea, but when signs of autumn are in the air, I put away the iced-tea pitcher in …
Before we get to my post for today, I want to announce the winners of “Mr. Darcy’s Magpie.” They are… drumroll, please… Rose and Ginna! Congratulations! I will be contacting you by email soon! Thanks to everyone who commented. I greatly appreciate all your encouraging words! And now… today’s post! Oh, the pleasures of a …
Sir William Lucas makes an introduction, but is it a favor? Part 2 What atrocious manners he had! Though it would certainly be deemed improper, Mary met the man’s stare with one of her own. He blinked and shook his head. That was satisfying. She gathered her book to her chest and strode toward the …
It’s release day for my brand new short story, The Captain’s Ghostly Gamble. Co-written with Eleanor Harkstead, this is a comedy of spooks, silk, and second chances. Blurb: When a ghostly dandy and his roguish companion try their hand at matchmaking, things definitely go bump in the night. For centuries, foppish Captain Cornelius Sheridan and brooding John Rookwood …
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