Launch of Conceit & Concealment!

Conceit & Concealment is here! I can’t remember the last time I was this excited about a release. This book is special for me in a lot of ways. It’s the longest book I’ve written, weighing in at a hefty 126,000 words, and I could have gone on longer because it was such fun. Like …

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Conceit & Concealment: Excerpt 7

~~~This is the second part of a larger post. Return to Main Post ~~~ This is the excerpt from Conceit & Concealment for those who have already read the early chapters, but please, please, please don’t read it if you haven’t read the first part because this is packed with spoilers and will ruin the beginning for …

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Mr Wickham’s Wanderings: Lipstick on Your Collar

  George Wickham writes… Friends, in my capacity as a gentleman of the world, I have been fortunate to see many things and become a fellow of wide and varied experience. This means, of course, that I have also gathered a fair few little tips and tricks that might help a gentleman navigate his life with …

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The Heir of Rosings Park Chapter 2

Will Mary Bennet find her happy ending under the reign of the Queen of Rosings Park? Find additional chapters HERE  Chapter 2 His letters had been so regular since he left for London, two each week on Wednesday and Saturday, bright points in her week to anticipate and cherish. But a full week had passed …

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May Flowers – As Heard from Among the Lilacs

In the brilliance of the May afternoon, a young lady, slight but shockingly agile hurried towards a meeting with her lover. They had agreed on a particular place among the lilacs; Lady Catherine was well known for how much she disliked the smell of lilacs and could be counted on to abstain from intruding upon …

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Chapter Three from ROSINGS PARK by Jack Caldwell

Greetings, everybody! Jack Caldwell here. One of the first novels I wrote was the ground-breaking THE THREE COLONELS, a sequel to both Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. It was also the first book in my Jane Austen’s Fighting Men Series. I’ve have released the second book in that series, THE LAST ADVENTURE OF …

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The Heir of Rosings Park Chapter 1

Will Mary Bennet find her happy ending under the reign of the Queen of Rosings Park? Many of you have asked what happens to the other Bennet sisters after Elizabeth and Lydia find their happy endings in the Queen of Rosings Park series. It’s time to answer that question for Mary.  I’ll be posting weekly …

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The Rosarian

“The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la, Breathe promise of merry sunshine — As we merrily dance and we sing, tra-la We welcome the hope that they bring, tra-la Of a summer of roses and wine…” I’ve always loved that tongue-in-cheek tribute to springtime from Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado”, but as it …

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May Flowers: When a Rose is More Than Just a Rose

We have a new month and a new theme here at Austen Variations! You’ve heard that April showers bring May flowers. I’m counting on it. We’ve certainly paid our dues here in Seattle with our wettest October through April on record. Now we deserve flowers in equally generous proportions. With that hope in mind, here’s …

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Darcy and Wickham: The Duties of Friendship Part III

The plundering of the papers of Mr Wickham have yielded a most illuminating correspondence with his old friend and brother-in-law, Fitzwilliam Darcy. Imagine our delight to discover that it extended to include correspondence from Mr Wickham’s grandson, Harry*, too. If you missed the first instalments of this series, you can read part one here and part two here. We hope …

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