Hello again! As a small pressie before the holidays, here’s something I prepared earlier 🙂 * * * * * * * * * * * * * “Shall we have our brandy in the library, Mr Bennet?” Darcy asked and his father-in-law readily agreed, their voices ringing almost too loudly, once the boisterous contingent …
Greetings, everyone! Now that things are starting to get back to normal (we hope), we at Jane Austen Variations are shaking things up! The annual Deck the Shelves Book Sale, usually at the end of November, has been moved. CHECK US OUT BEGINNING CHRISTMAS DAY! SALES RUNS TO JANUARY 1 — NEW YEAR’S DAY! Stay …
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you in the USA! I hope you have many things in your life to be thankful for! Here in the UK we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, but we do have a Harvest Festival of Thanksgiving which dates back in different forms to the middle ages. Plays that represented the figure of …
Hi all! As some of you may have noticed, I’ve been taking a bit of a social media break to focus on my writing and other things, but in the spirit of Thanksgiving, and to celebrate my two book anniversaries (three years for my first, and six months for my second), I have just moved …
Happy Friday!! If you didn’t see it on my website on Monday, His Perfect Gift is out on audiobook! If you haven’t read it yet, then check it out on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, or paperback. BUT, if you love audiobooks, be sure to head on over to Audible or Amazon and get your copy so …
We are coming up on the holiday season, which some would say is the most wonderful time of the year. I’ve often found that it’s not only a season of giving and receiving, but also introspection. In Frank Capra’s classic “It’s a Wonderful Life,” after a financial misstep, the main character George Bailey doesn’t believe …
I know that “a comfortable coze” (this month’s theme here at the blog) comes from Mansfield Park and refers to a confab between Fanny Price and Mary Crawford. (Read more about that in Diana Birchall’s post.) But I admit that the phrase conjured up something a little different in my mind. First, you should know …
Hi everyone! Happy Friday! I had hoped the audiobook of His Perfect Gift would be released by today, but unfortunately the review isn’t complete yet. I was trying to figure out what to do, and found this old quickie I wrote years ago, which I thought would be appropriate since Veterans’ Day was yesterday. It …
Jane Austen’s felicitious phrase, “a comfortable coze,” which we use as our banner theme for November (a month in need of a coze or two), comes from Mansfield Park. Fanny, preparing for her first ball, is perplexed about how to wear the cross given her by her sailor brother William, for she has no chain. …
Do you ever feel overwhelmed sending an overdue email to a friend because there’s just so much to tell them, so you procrastinate until it gets even worse? Especially when there’s something you really want to avoid saying? Well, that’s the spiral I’ve been in on blog posts, so I’m going to bite the bullet …
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