Mrs Bennet Makes a Match Release Day!

It’s release day for my latest novella, Mrs Bennet Makes a Match! 🥳 To help celebrate, I’m sharing a snippet  from Chapter 2. I posted an excerpt (Chapter 1) previously; you can find it here. In this segment of the second chapter, Mr Darcy and Mr Bingley have come to dinner, and the party is …

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Traces of Magic: Happy Release Day!! + Giveaway!

Traces of Magic Cover A woman in a white Regency gown with a gold sash looks over a balustrade at a purple magical burst. Book two of Mr. Darcy's Magic, a Pride and Prejudice Variation

Hello friends! I’m looking out of the window at the leaves turning color and I’m reminded that autumn is coming. Where did the summer go?  Yikes!  I suppose I was too busy working on Traces of Magic to notice the transition! I’m a summer baby, which is probably why summer is my favorite season.  Every …

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Strokes of Inelegance: the final part of a modern P&P story!

Greetings, friends! It’s almost the end of a “scandalous September.” (Did you do anything scandalous this month? For my part, I turned another year older…very scandalous indeed!) In March, I began an untitled P&P short story to help me get out of a writing funk. Now, as we approach October, I have finally finished! (Well, there’s …

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New novella coming soon! Wits & Wagers

Hey all, I have a new novella coming soon (well, it’s 45K words, so not sure if its a novella or a mini novel but you get the point, haha!). Wits & Wagers is currently available for preorder will be out at the end of November. In the meantime I hope you enjoy an excerpt …

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P&P The Untold Stories: Bingley Takes Possession of Netherfield

What will Caroline Bingley think of Netherfield Park? September 25, 1811 Note: This vignette follows one from last week, Bingley Takes Possession of Netherfield. Caroline Bingley glared at her brother as their carriage rattled over the cobblestones of a little country town. “Charles,” she said in a deceptively honeyed voice, “you know I do not …

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Mr. Darcy and the Governess Launch Giveaway

I come with AAAALLLLL kinds of announcements today. First! I must pay off some arrears of civilities. I had never gone back to announce the winners of the drawings for my last two posts. Bad author! So, I have some ebooks to give away right off the top. My randomizer (my 17-year-old son) plucked some …

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Throwback Thursday: Mrs. Bennet Tells All

Mrs. Bennet Tells All, by Jack Caldwell Greetings everyone. Jack Caldwell here. One of the most enduring tropes in JAFF is the unfeeling, slightly cruel, and stupid Mrs. Bennet. Taking a bit from the novel and a lot from the P&P 1995 adaptation, there is a belief that Mrs. Bennet hates her second daughter and …

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P&P The Untold Stories: Lady Catherine Interviews Mr. Collins

Lady Catherine conducts a job interview with Mr. Collins… September 19, 1811 Mr. Whitaker, the clergyman of Hunsford, was dead. Lady Catherine, however, could not bring herself to regret it. “Certainly,” she said, “I shall mourn as much as is proper; that is, I shall wish him every mercy at the seat of Judgment, but …

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P&P The Untold Stories: Netherfield Park is Let at Last

Welcome to the very first vignette in our new Austen Variations group project, Pride & Prejudice: The Untold Stories. You can find an explanation of this project here. For now, cast yourself back in time to this date 212 years ago! Mr. Bingley views Netherfield Park for the first time September 18, 1811 Mr. Anderson …

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Down Memory Lane ~ a Vignette & a Giveaway

Today I’m going for a walk down memory lane, and I hope you’d like to come along with me. An old favourite has a new cover, and I thought I’d celebrate with a special offer and a giveaway. So, what do you think of Mr Bennet’s Dutiful Daughter now? Doesn’t she look like she’s thinking, ‘Oh my …

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