This is getting personal. Our own Abigail Reynolds is in the path of a tropical storm. Meredith Esparza of Austenesque Reviews is in the path of Hurricane Dorian. So is Samantha Whitman, another JAFF author who generously donated a cameo and critique for this fundraiser. Let’s show our own our love and support right now. …
Wow! You guys are doing great! We’re up to $395! Only $55 away from another scene by L.L. Diamond! Clicke here to donate to Americares to support victims of Hurricane Dorian. Read part 2 here. Without further ado, here’s our third scene from Nicole Clarkston. Enjoy! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ No one seemed to know quite what to …
You guys raised $150! Woohoo!!! Here’s scene 2 (from Elizabeth Adams). Click here for scene 1 (by Abigail Reynolds) Another $150 earns you another scene! Click here to donate to Hurricane Dorian relief. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Darcy could hear his aunt long before he reached the stranded carriage. She was screeching and demanding she be released, punctuated …
We are raising money for Hurricane Dorian relief! See the original post with cameos, writing critiques and books up for grabs here. Here is the first scene to our group relay story, September Storms, featuring Abigail Reynolds, Elizabeth Adams, Nicole Clarkston, L.L. Diamond, Monica Fairview, and Diana Birchall. Every time $150 is collectively donated (not …
It’s finally here! I know many of you have been waiting for a long time for us to publish this anthology and we’re so thrilled to have it available for you to buy. Persuasion is one of Jane Austen’s most beloved works. I’m sure all of us have scenes we wish she’d written and those …
As the gondola pulled away from the Grand Canal, and out into the wide lagoon, the waves began to toss and the shifting, sun-filled clouds made dappled reflections on the silvery sea. The ancient buildings with their delicate tracery silhouetted against the magnificent expanse of sky and shining water, merged into a series of exquisite …
“I believe we will be quite comfortable here, and the dampness need not be a concern,” Elizabeth told her husband after an inspection of their fantastical and antique “new” quarters at the Palazzo Moncenigo. “These crumbling palaces on the Grand Canal have such a ruinous beauty, there is a strange enchantment about them.” “I always …
Sir Walter Elliot stood in one of his two fine adjoining drawing-rooms in Bath, minutely examining his elegant figure in a long pier-glass mirror. It was placed between two ornamented windows, so that the daylight might best reveal the morning condition and texture of his complexion. At the moment he was occupied in examining the …
In honor of our Jane in January Scavenger Hunt, I present you with a Quiz, and a Story! Quiz first. Can you name the books from which these quotes about “Treasures” came from? (I prefer to use the word Treasure in this exercise, because Jane Austen never does seem to use the word Scavenger.) Some …
“They determined on walking round Beechen Cliff, that noble hill whose beautiful verdure and hanging coppice render it so striking an object from almost every opening in Bath.” – Northanger Abbey On a trip to Bath a couple of summers ago, I was fortunate to visit an old “friend in Jane,” another …
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