The Ladies of Rosings Park is now successfully published! Hooray! But in case you don’t have your own copy yet, I will continue posting chapters here every Monday until we finish Part One of the book (the time period covered in Pride and Prejudice). These early chapters read like P&P “missing scenes” – your favorite book …
Happily married at last, and with danger behind them– for now– Lydia Bennet and George Wickham pay their respects to her family, and tend to one last bit of unfinished business. But will the party concerned lend a willing ear? Catherine Curzon and Nicole Clarkston Catch up on previous adventures here! One, Two, Three, Four, …
An unexpected visitor in the middle of the night… Elizabeth pushed up from the narrow cellar steps. How many hours over the past days had she sat here silently waiting staring at the boxes and barrels and trunks piled along the dark, dank walls, hoping that stubborn dragon would reveal himself? Far too many. …
This is a little story I’ve been working on, my attempt at the gothic style that was popular in JA’s day. Hope you enjoy it! I will be posting on Wednesdays unless I tell you otherwise 🙂 Most of the story is told in 1816, the year without a summer, but we’ll start off in …
“My dear Mrs. Darcy,” said Mrs. Hoppner, wife of the English consul, seated in her pretty drawing-room overlooking the Grand Canal, “we are most gratified by your calling upon us. You live far too retired a life here in Venice, indeed you do.” She was a plump Swiss lady, whose husband, son of a well …
Every Monday, I have been posting a new chapter of The Ladies of Rosings Park. But this Monday is special; it’s also Launch Day! That means you can continue reading the first sixteen chapters here at Austen Variations at the pace of one per week, or you can get your own copy now and read …
Lydia Bennet and George Wickham are finally married, but their plans for marital bliss are already in peril as our intrepid pair find themselves at he mercy of Lieutenant Bell, a man with murder on his mind. Can the Wickhams save the day? Catherine Curzon and Nicole Clarkston Catch up on previous adventures here! One, …
The plot thickens with a long awaited letter and ciphered journal entries, but who wrote them and what do they say? Darcy pushed open the sticky window, its panes grimy and smudged. Another night spent in a roadside inn. At least this one was tolerable. The previous night, they had billeted in an abandoned …
This is my third March Madness chapter in a story where Darcy meets and commiserates with other Austen men. In Chapter 1, he enters an inn hoping for some solitude as he is reeling from Elizabeth’s rejection, but he is joined by Captain Wentworth when there is no where else for him to sit. The …
The Cajun Cheesehead Chronicles by Jack Caldwell Greetings, everyone. Jack Caldwell here. You may not know this, but I’m a Progressive Rock fan. My favorite group is YES, but I enjoy me some Moody Blues from time to time. A few weeks ago, while working on my current projects, a certain song came up on …
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