Thank you, dear readers, for your invaluable feedback last week – I hope you enjoy this episode and I welcome your ideas and opinions! If you’d like to catch up on previous parts, they can be found in Writer’s Workshop. Mrs Darcy’s happiness was to be short-lived. After dinner the ladies withdrew to one of …
Persuasion 200 – Cast of Characters
Persuasion is Jane Austen’s last completed novel. Austen died in Winchester on July 18, 1817 at the age of 41. After Austen’s death, in December 1817, Cassandra and Henry Austen arranged with John Murray, Jane’s editor, for the publication of Persuasion and Northanger Abbey in a single volume. Henry Austen contributed a Biographical Note that, for the first time, identified …
Persuasion 200 Coming April 17th!
Finally, after what seems like months and months of talking about it and planning, there’s less than a week until Persuasion 200 begins! What’s Persuasion 200? During this, the 200th year after the events in Austen’s book Persuasion, we’re retelling it by creating the scenes she left out of the original. This is similar to the P&P200 Project …
Reader’s Perspective with Dave McKee and Evie Cotton – Chapter 23
The Darcy Brothers team would like to thank Dave and Evie for all the trouble they’ve made work they’ve done on the Reader’s Perspective posts. We hope this experiment added to the reading experience. In the meantime, don’t forget to send your questions for Theo Darcy for next week’s Q&A session – especially those questions …
Cover Reveal for Marilyn Brant’s Pride, Prejudice and the Perfect Bet!!
As I approach the end of the long months of drafting Pride, Prejudice and the Perfect Bet (White Soup Press, Summer 2014) and get ready to dive into the nearly as lengthy revising portion of the process, one of the great perks of being at this stage is that, with the plot in place, it’s time for the …
Announcing Persuasion 200
If you enjoyed our Pride and Prejudice: The Scenes Jane Austen Never Wrote (or P&P200), you’ll be happy to learn we’re doing it again! This time we’re taking on Persuasion, Austen’s touching story about second chances for love. As a tribute to this amazing story, which began 200 years ago this summer, the authors of …
Jane Austen in Tarrytown
The New York JASNA branch held a very tempting weekend conference March 21-22 in Tarrytown, NY, and I was fortunately able to attend, tying it in with a family visit. Tarrytown is such a pretty, old community on the Hudson River, spectacular in springtime, but New York’s long winter this year meant that springtime …
Jane Austen’s Jewel Box – Elizabeth Darcy’s Ring – Part Five – Jane Odiwe
Thank you so much for all your very valuable feedback from last week, which I’m trying to incorporate into my writing! I hope you enjoy this longer episode, and although all your suggestions may not be here, there may still be a chance to get them in later. If you’d like to read the other …
Reader’s Perspective with Evie Cotton and Dave McKee
EC-I have to admit that this weeks chapter left me feeling fine. During the course of reading a novel I go through a whirlwind of emotions. First I feel excited and intrigued. I love trying to guess where the story will take me and figure out just what it is that will be so different …

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