A New Face for an Old Friend

Anyone up for a stroll down Memory Lane with me? It was September of 2014. We had barely started our homeschool year with a fourth-grader, a third-grader, and a first-grader, and my husband and I had just finished liquidating the last of our small business. And I was obsessed with John Thornton and Fitzwilliam Darcy. …

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What is to become of Me?

A new deleted scene (or maybe not…) from the upcoming book! Walker slipped through the open passage door, silent and dark as death. Had he been prey, Darcy would have been dead. Leaving the door to the dragon passages open was one of those little acts of trust that marked the decades of their Friendship. …

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A Collection of Comeuppances

Jane Austen was a most judicious punisher of her least deserving characters. She had a high moral sense, as well as a wicked wit, and loved to mete out comeuppances as well as happy endings. Her comeuppances are generally very plausible and very fair, and the ones that might not seem entirely satisfactory, generally have …

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Comeuppances: A Sneak Peek from my WIP

Of course every JAFF writers favorite person to give a comeuppance to is Miss Bingley (well one of the favorites!) and being that I have one in my current book-in-progress, I thought a sneak peek might be in order! Hope you enjoy! So Material a Change is one that many might remember from the boards …

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Of course, there were dragons

Of course there were dragons~explore the world of Britain’s dragon myths and Jane Austen’s Dragons.

Dangerous Magic: Book Launch & Giveaway

Blog Tour Monica Fairview Dangerous Magic

It seems like I’ve been waiting forever for DANGEROUS MAGIC: A PRIDE AND PREJUDICE to come out. I wrote this novel last year, during lockdown, and I wanted to escape to a kingdom far, far away.  What better place to escape to than Jane Austen’s England — don’t we all love to go there? — …

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Gossip and Scandal in Jane Austen’s World

The more things change the more they stay the same. Comeuppance in Jane Austen’s World could come in the form of  gossip columns.

Wickham’s Comeuppance: How shall we punish him?

There are some characters we simply love to hate: Lady Catherine, Miss Bingley, Wickham. I hope you enjoyed Lady Catherine’s comeuppance in Shannon Winslow’s post the other day. So delicious! A few years ago, I posted a couple of short stories where I poked fun at Miss Bingley. If you haven’t read them, these links will …

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Comeuppance: Lady Catherine Gets Hers

Happy March! This month, some of us will be posting on the theme of COMEUPPANCE, which is defined as “something unpleasant regarded as just punishment.” And who is more deserving of it than Lady Catherine? In P&P, we know she gets her just punishment when Darcy defies her edict that he must marry Anne. But …

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The Recovery of Fitzwilliam Darcy Cover Reveal!

I am so excited to be here today to reveal the cover for my upcoming release, The Recovery of Fitzwilliam Darcy. Quills & Quartos is giving away a $20 (US dollars) Amazon gift card; the draw is open internationally. All you have to do to enter the draw is comment on this post. Before I …

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