It was with a great deal of sadness that I learned of the passing of Benjamin Whitrow from Adrian last week. Ben is better known to the Jane Austen community as the quintessential Mr Bennet and starred opposite Adrian in the BBC’s adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. I was very fortunate to work with Ben …
Summer is definitely over. October is here and time to turn our minds to a new season. It’s Austen in Autumn! Yesterday, when I went out for my morning constitutional, I had multicolored maple leaves crunching underfoot and the occasional spider web hitting me in the face. I also took a plastic bag along …
I have been enjoying getting to know some of our regular guests here at Austen Variations! We are gearing up for October and we already have a special hostess lined up. This moth’s guest will be chosen on October 4 from our top Facebook participants. There is still time to like and share, and we …
Here is Chapter 9 of my WIP, that I hope to have published by the end of October. I will post 4 more chapters on Fridays in October, with the first 3 posts revealinsomething about the book. Next week I will reveal the title, the following week I will reveal the cover, the week after …
Welcome back to the most scandalous story of the season! George Wickham and Lydia Bennet have fallen head over heels for one another, but a proper marriage is out of the question. What, then, is a young couple to do? Will hearts on fire chart their course, or will cooler heads prevail? Find out the …
In celebration of Sequels in September, I bring you an excerpt from COLLIDE, my second Romance Revisited novel. While COLLIDE is a sequel to SWAY, they can be read as standalones. A minor character from SWAY makes a brief appearance in COLLIDE. (Both books will come together more in the final novel in the series, …
Sir Walter Elliot stood in one of his two fine adjoining drawing-rooms in Bath, minutely examining his elegant figure in a long pier-glass mirror. It was placed between two ornamented windows, so that the daylight might best reveal the morning condition and texture of his complexion. At the moment he was occupied in examining the …
JAFF readers are the best! The Team JAFF fundraiser for hurricane relief has been a big success. Generous readers donated $2253.20 for cameos and and for our Persuasion: Behind the Scenes e-book. I don’t have a figure for how much was raised by the thirteen authors who agreed to donate their royalties on certain books …
Here is Chapter 8 for you, my 3rd chapter this month, and there will be one more next Friday, as I promised. I shall post 4 more chapters in October on Fridays, along with some reveals as we lead towards the book launch (see below for my proposed schedule). I hope you are enjoying these …
Welcome back to the next chapter in our scandalous tale! Lydia Bennet, never one to let a chance slip past, has engineered a liaison with George Wickham safely away from prying eyes. Yet who is the hunter, and who the game? Click here for parts One, Two, Three, Four and Five. Lydia opened her eyes …
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