Tag: Jane Austen

Jane in January: Answers to “How Well Do You Know Your Jane?”

How well did you know locations from Jane Austen’s life and locations from Austen adaptations? Answers for the Austen Variations portion will be here and the answers for part two will be on my blog at lldiamondwrites.com.       Just in case you were curious about the actual answers, here we go! This house …

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Jane in January: How Well Do You Know Your Jane?

How well do you know locations from Jane Austen’s life and locations from Austen adaptations? Today, Abigail Reynolds and I are going to test your knowledge of these places in two quizzes!   How well do you know Jane Austen? Can you guess these locations from Jane Austen’s life? This house is unfortunately no longer …

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January Scavenger Hunt Answers and Winner by Jack Caldwell

Hello, everybody. Jack Caldwell here. First, I want to thank everyone for participating in Guess Who from CRESCENT CITY, my entry in the Austen Variations Jane in January Scavenger Hunt. Everyone did very well, getting almost all the answers right. A couple of the questions, particularly the first two, were tricky and tripped up most …

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Jane in January: Who said it?

Time to test your Jane Austen trivia with a rousing edition of Who Said It? How well do you know your Austen? I’m going to list five quotes on this page and then five on my blog at lldiamondwrites.com and when you’ve answered all of them, there will be instructions on my blog to enter …

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January Scavenger Hunt #5 by Jack Caldwell

Guess Who from CRESCENT CITY Hello, everybody. Jack Caldwell here. For my entry in the Austen Variations Jane in January Scavenger Hunt, I’m going to give you a little test. After all, it’s Friday the Thirteenth! Bruhahaha! Now, don’t groan—the potential reward is worth it. As you remember, I wrote a modern, JA-based trilogy about …

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Launch of Conversations with Mr. Darcy by Mary Simonsen

2016! It was quite the year. And it made for some intense discussions. There were a few ways one could escape the angst-inducing news. You could go on a vacation to the Amazon or other exotic locales where there are no radios, newspapers, or internet. You could train for marathons or take up mountain climbing. Or you could drink …

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January Scavenger Hunt #1 – Quotable Words

As you know, here at Austen Variations we’re doing a month-long scavenger hunt. Today, I’m kicking off the theme with a fun little game. Below are nine Jane Austen quotes, each with one underlined word for you to unscramble. Make a note of those nine words, put them in your pocket, and then hop on …

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First Peek: Longbourn: Dragon Entail

Peek into Longbourn:Dragon Entail, Book 2 in Jane Austen’s Dragons, with a most unusual Christmas dinner at Longbourn. Let me know what you think below–comments inspire me to write faster! I can’t promise  a publication date yet, but I’m looking at the end of first quarter 2017. Keeping fingers crossed!  If you missed the start of …

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Christmas from CRESCENT CITY by Jack Caldwell

Merry Christmas, everybody! Jack Caldwell here. It will surprise those of you not from the Bayou State that it can get cold in Louisiana. Not that nine-below-zero-fifteen-below-wind chill cold that hits the Great Plains and Upper Midwest with some frequency. No; what we get is that thirty-eight-with-wind-and-rain that feels like it’s below zero. The cold …

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Preview of Coming Attractions: “Leap of Hope”

Christmas and New Years are coming fast, so I want to begin by wishing you all wonderful celebrations with your friends and families, enjoying whatever holiday traditions are meaningful to you. After some of the same, I intend to get right back to work toward launching not one but two new novels at once in …

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