Regency England is teeming with dragons, but only a select few are actually aware they are about. Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet are among the elite members of the Blue Order, charged with maintaining the dragon-human peace established by the Pendragon treaty. A nice simple directive, right? What could go wrong? What indeed… Jane Austen’s …
If you are ill, injured, or pregnant and live in England during the Regency Era, who do you call for help and what would they do to diagnose and treat you? Except in obstetrics, medical care did not change in any fundamental way during the 150 years between 1700 and 1850. There were inventions, such as …
It’s been awhile since I published anything, and so I am happy to release my e-book novella, Convincing Mr. Darcy. To celebrate the launch, I am giving away threee-books. The winners will be announced on October 4th. All you have to do is to leave a comment about your favorite Jane Austen character(s) (other than …
One of the most exciting events of my life took place during my trip to England last summer. Any trip to Chawton is an emotional and exciting experience for the Jane Austen lover, of course, whether you visit the Cottage museum on your own, attend a conference at the grandly restored Chawton House Library, or …
Today I am excited to announce the release of my novel, A Peculiar Engagement! And there is a giveaway! Many of you may recall about a year and a half ago I began posting chapters of it as I was writing Mr. Darcy’s Rival. It was the ‘book in a book’ that Miss Anne de Bourgh had …
Now, here we are at the assembly rooms. Keep up, keep together, we have a lot to learn and see. Luckily, I am to hand you over to an excellent guide, a Miss J. Austen, resident of Bath for some years now, a lady who is very fond of dancing. Miss Austen, my sincere …
It’s been seven years — to the day! — since According to Jane was published. It came out on ebook on September 21, 2009 one week in advance of its paperback release from Kensington Books, and I remember those days very well… I couldn’t have been more delighted, overwhelmed, scared, and enthused all at once. 😀 At …
Anne held the guidebook of Bath in her hand, but after reading the same paragraph for the third time, she closed it. Her thoughts were elsewhere—Molland’s to be exact. She was still attempting to understand what had happened at the confectioner’s shop a day earlier. She had just finished a cup of tea and a …
“They determined on walking round Beechen Cliff, that noble hill whose beautiful verdure and hanging coppice render it so striking an object from almost every opening in Bath.” – Northanger Abbey On a trip to Bath a couple of summers ago, I was fortunate to visit an old “friend in Jane,” another …
One of the most recognizable architectural sites in Bath is The Royal Crescent. It is not one building but a series of townhouses united behind a graceful, curved facade designed by John Wood the Elder and John Wood the Younger in the later half of the 18th century. …
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