MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE! The Holiday season is in full swing. We’ve finished Thanksgiving (in the US) and Chanukkah, and Christmas Day is upon us. We’re decking our halls and wrapping our presents. How about something to tide you over in your quiet hours as you await New Year’s Day 2024? Like a great book! This …
The 2023 Semi-Annual Book Sale! It’s summertime and the living is easy! Time to buy your beach reading. Jane Austen Variations will help you out with this generous Book Sale! Enjoy novels by Jennifer Altman, Jack Caldwell, L.L. Diamond, Amy D’Orazio, Monica Fairview, Lucy Marin, Christina Morland, Anngela Schroeder, Joana Starnes, and Shannon Winslow! Sale …
Greetings, Austen Friends! I hope October has been as lovely for you as it’s been for me. You should see the trees around my house: flaming reds, sunset oranges, lemon yellows…I find myself wanting to spend all my time taking walks and staring up at trees. However, I do occasionally have to teach…and I get …
Happy July, friends! I’m offering a story I had hoped to share in June, when the theme was “Blossoming Love.” Needless to say, I proved once again my immunity to deadlines! So here I am, in July, with a short story I had not really meant to write. Some of you may know that I …
The 2021 Semi-Annual Book Sale! It’s summertime and the living is easy! Time to buy your beach reading. Jane Austen Variations will help you out with this generous Book Sale! Enjoy novels by Elizabeth Adams, Jennifer Altman, Marilyn Brant, Jack Caldwell, Nicole Clarkston, L.L. Diamond, Amy D’Orazio, Maria Grace, Lucy Marin, Christina Morland, Joana Starnes, …
Happy June to you all! When I was thinking about this month’s theme, “Blossoming Love,” I realized that I rarely set a story in summer. Nor do I have many flowers in my novels (or, when I do, I tend to put them in seasons not meant for those flowers)! All of these thoughts brought …
Can you believe it is almost the end of May? I have had so much fun this first month after joining Austen Variations! I’ll admit, however, that I was more than a little daunted by the prospect of writing a vignette for this month’s theme, “A Mother’s Love.” Then I tried to imagine what, if …
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