I’m excited to announce, at long last Mistaking her Character (formerly Wholly Unconnected to Me) is ready to be released into the wild. To celebrate I want share a new excerpt with you. Some of you have asked why the title change. I admit, I loved the original title, but it was kind of clumsy …
I’m sorry it’s taken me a while to post this chapter but writing Miss Darcy’s Parisian Pin is taking a little longer than I expected. I’d hoped to have this out for May, but I’ve been a little distracted by a few ongoing writing projects so its publication has been postponed. I’m working on a …
While I wait for Mr. Darcy’s Rival launch, which is next Thursday, June 4 (the Kindle is now on pre-order, and other formats may go live sooner!), I thought I would take a look at the coincidences we see in Pride and Prejudice. According to the dictionary, the word coincidence means: ‘a striking occurrence of two or …
Just how proper were Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy? We all know that etiquette and proper behaviour were de riguer in the Regency period. Unmarried women had to be chaperoned at all time, they could not correspond with unmarried gentlemen, they were expected to be pure in mind and body, etc. But where there are human beings …
Miss Georgiana Darcy of Pemberley, which will debut later this summer, is a Pride and Prejudice sequel told from Georgiana’s perspective, meant to go hand-in-hand with my earlier novel The Darcys of Pemberley. While I’ve been impatiently awaiting it’s release, I have enjoyed sharing a few excerpts with you here at Austen Variations! (See dates …
Who is Georgiana Darcy, anyway? I was halfway through the book I was writing about her, and I still wasn’t sure I had all the answers. I think most of us have this vague idea about Miss Darcy from Pride and Prejudice – that she’s a sweet, soft-spoken girl – but that’s hardly a well-rounded, …
I had hoped to have a book launch to announce today, but alas it was not to be. Life conspired against me and things are running just a little late. As I wait for my cover designer and my faithful proofreaders to finished with the manuscript, I couldn’t resist sharing another sneak peak of Mistaking …
Pemberley, 1845 With satisfaction, Darcy scanned the crowd of friends and family gathered in the Pemberley dining room. It had been a good day. Darcy approved of the young lady of good family to whom Thomas was now safely married. Her impertinence sometimes dismayed him, but she reminded him of his Elizabeth when he had …
The maid pulled apart the curtains, and left the tea tray. As soon as she had withdrawn, Elizabeth opened her eyes and lifted her head from the feather pillow. Darcy, in his nightshirt, was beginning his ablutions with water-pitcher and bowl. “Oh, Darcy,” she fairly wailed, “only look at the rain!” He turned from his …
Pulse and Prejudice: The Confession of Mr. Darcy, Vampire 1st Place Winner in Category: Chatelaine Awards Romantic Fiction In this thrilling and sensual adaptation of the classic love story, Elizabeth Bennet and the citizens of Hertfordshire know Fitzwilliam Darcy to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man, but they never suspect the dark secret …
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