Tag: Inspired by Pride and Prejudice

Release Day for The Earl’s Conquest!

Today, The Earl’s Conquest is available and it’s a rather unusual feeling. I’m happy to have it finished and I think that I’m proudest of this book to be honest. I will be curious to see how the readers feel once they’ve had a chance to read it! Now, I know those who have only …

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Book Launch – Ruin and Renewal: Volume Three of Crescent City

Launch Party for RUIN AND RENEWAL: Volume Three of CRESCENT CITY by Jack Caldwell It’s strange to call this event a launch party. The word party is connected so closely with celebration. This book commemorates a day that should not be celebrated, but instead be indelibly engraved into the American memory, much like December 7, 1941 …

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Book Launch – Elysian Dreams: Volume Two of Crescent City

Launch Party for ELYSIAN DREAMS: Volume Two of CRESCENT CITY by Jack Caldwell “ELYSIAN”: adjective; (literary) delightful; glorious; blissful. Happy summer, everyone. Just in time for your beach reading is the second part to my epic tale of New Orleans. ELYSIAN DREAMS: Volume Two of CRESCENT CITY. We ended Volume One in August of 1999 …

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Pride, Prejudice & Propriety

Just how proper were Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy? We all know that etiquette and proper behaviour were de riguer in the Regency period. Unmarried women had to be chaperoned at all time, they could not correspond with unmarried gentlemen, they were expected to be pure in mind and body, etc. But where there are human beings …

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Book Launch – Bourbon Street Nights: Volume One of Crescent City

Launch Party for BOURBON STREET NIGHTS: Volume One of CRESCENT CITY by Jack Caldwell Finally, the time has come. The publishing of my most personal novel, CRESCENT CITY. The CRESCENT CITY series is the story of America’s most unique city, New Orleans, as told through the lives of an immigrant family from Derbyshire, England—the Darcys. …

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Mr. Darcy’s Challenge Launch

To celebrate today’s release of MR. DARCY’S CHALLENGE, I have a wonderful surprise for you. Instead of an excerpt, you are invited to view the charming Sophie Andrews, decked out in her lovely Regency outfit (with my favorite blue spencer and a feather), who will be reading Chapter Two for you.  If you’ve missed the earlier chapters, …

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Cover Reveal, Mr. Darcy’s Challenge

Welcome to the book reveal for Mr. Darcy’s Challenge (Book 2 of Mr. Darcy’s Pledge). I would love to hear what you think of the cover. Please leave a comment below describing what impressions the cover evokes for an additional chance to be entered on the Launch Day Giveaway. Meanwhile, I’d like to let you know that …

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Mr Darcy’s Christmas Calendar – a new novella – Jane Odiwe

I’m really excited to share an excerpt from my new novella, Mr Darcy’s Christmas Calendar. This is a tale I started working on more than two years ago, and though I managed to write a great part of it during that time, other writing projects meant it always took a back seat. I love writing Christmas …

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The Cajun Cheesehead Chronicles, by Jack Caldwell

Preview from THE PLAINS OF CHALMETTE Hello, everyone—Jack Caldwell here. As you may have heard, I have BIG plans for 2015. White Soup Press will release FOUR novels, all in my epic CRESCENT CITY series. CRESCENT CITY is my Austen-inspired take on the history of America’s most unique city, New Orleans, and the people who …

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Mr. Darcy’s Pledge Release Day

  Well, the day is finally here! This is the official release of Mr. Darcy’s Pledge and I’m thrilled to be having it here on Austen Variations to celebrate with such a familiar and supportive group of readers. This is my first Darcy-centric novel and quite different from my other novels in that it’s a …

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