Austen in the Classroom

Greetings! I return to posting with no little embarrassment. Indeed, I’m blushing like Charles Bingley in Lucy Marin’s fabulous short story, “The Travails of Charles Bingley.” Look at me, showing up in Meryton months and months after I departed without explanation! (But Jane, I have missed you—truly!) I can make no excuses. Nonetheless, I will …

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Summer Wrap-up and What’s Coming–Including a Release Date!!

It’s so difficult to realize we’re almost to September! My college/uni age daughter started her classes last week and my two high schoolers were off early this morning for their first day. Though I do enjoy having them at home, I am in a blessedly quiet house (Other writing moms should understand that feeling!) and …

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A Proper Introduction

Well, hello, there! Yes, it’s been a minute.  I’ve been doing a lot of “momming” this year, and when high-schoolers start going in different directions, we turn into taxi drivers, don’t we? Plus, we start to see just how fast we’re going to lose them… I’m going to cry now. Okay, enough of that. I …

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Alone with Mr. Darcy on sale!

I’ve got a bargain for you today – my national bestseller Alone with Mr. Darcy is on sale for 99 cents! It’s available at online booksellers internationally, including Kobo, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Amazon, and more. Here’s the blurb: Alone with Mr. Darcy…. Elizabeth Bennet can’t imagine anything worse than being stranded by a blizzard …

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Wedding gowns in Jane Austen’s Day

courtship and marraige in jane austen's world

Though nearly all of Jane Austen’s works end with a wedding, she does not spend much time detailing the weddings themselves, much less the wedding dresses. Modern brides often spend a great deal of effort and money on the wedding dress and expect to wear it only once. Honestly, it is hard to imagine another …

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Celebrating the Audiobook of “Colonel Brandon in His Own Words” with a Giveaway!

The past six weeks were busy ones for me, launching Colonel Brandon in His Own Words and then tagging along with him on a whirlwind, 10-stop book tour. If  you missed any of the festivities, look here for more book info, an excerpt, and a full list of tour stops with links. But now for …

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Finery and Folly: a Lydia Story by Diana Birchall

“When Lydia went away, she promised to write very often and very minutely to her mother and Kitty; but her letters were always long expected, and always very short. Those to her mother contained little else than that they were just returned from the library, where such and such officers had attended them, and where …

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Dragon Persuasion on Sale Now!

Kellynch: Dragon Persuasion

I’ve never done this before, and may not doing it again! Kellynch: Dragon Persuasion is on sale for .99 for a limited time. Get it before the sale ends!

Something Persuasion-ish

Talk of Persuasion is all the rage these days. 🙂 Whereas P&P calls to mind grand estates and balls and long walks in the prettyish wildernesses of private gardens, when I think of Persuasion, I think mostly of rugged seascapes and of Bath. A few years ago, I wrote a duet of second-chance loves stories …

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The Carriage Awaits

  Would you like to have a closer look at the sort of carriages that our favourite characters might have used to travel around town or dash up and down the country? Then let’s stroll through the Carriage Museum at Arlington Court in North Devon. There are around 50 vehicles in the collection, the oldest …

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