Tag: Jane Austen’s Fighting Men

A Proposal Scene by Jack Caldwell #1

Greetings, everyone. Jack Caldwell here. This month, our theme is “Will You?” That’s right, it’s a month full of proposals, the good, the bad, and the ugly! Most will probably melt your pudding, but you might just see a stinker in the bouquet. We all need to laugh, right? Okay, I didn’t write the above. …

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Preview of Persuaded to Sail #4

Preview of PERSUADED TO SAIL, Chapter 7, Part 1 Greetings, everyone. Jack Caldwell here, jumping about again. Happy Mardi Gras! You’ll have to wait until PERSUADED TO SAIL is published to see what was in Chapter 6. As for this one, I’m going to break it up for this posting and the next one. It’s …

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Preview of Persuaded to Sail #3

Preview of PERSUADED TO SAIL, selections from Chapter 5 Greetings, everyone. Jack Caldwell here. Holy mackerel, I did it again. What happened to Chapter 4? The purpose of these previews Is to give you a taste of PERSUADED TO SAIL. I believe I have accomplished that. While Chapter 4 is a very interesting one, as …

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Preview of Persuaded to Sail #2

Preview of PERSUADED TO SAIL, selections from Chapter 3 Greetings, everyone. Jack Caldwell here. For your reading pleasure, I am posting selected passages from my long-awaited sequel to Jane Austen’s Persuasion. PERSUADED TO SAIL begins immediately after the wedding of Captain Frederick Wentworth and Miss Anne Elliot. It also takes place after Napoleon Bonaparte’s shocking …

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Preview of Persuaded to Sail #1

Preview of PERSUADED TO SAIL, Prologue and Chapter 1 Greetings, everyone. Jack Caldwell here. As you may know, I’ve been working on a sequel to Jane Austen’s last published novel, the wonderful Persuasion. Many years ago, I came up with something I placed on the fan fiction boards. When I started publishing my works, I …

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Hunsford — Five Years On, by Jack Caldwell

The Cajun Cheesehead Chronicles by Jack Caldwell Greetings, everyone. Jack Caldwell here. One of the toughest things about writing a sequel to Pride and Prejudice is what to do with Elizabeth and Darcy. You think the Bingleys are boring? They’ve got nothing on the Darcys—Jane Austen’s the perfect couple! Since Hunsford, they understand each other …

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Death & Life – a sequel to P&P and The Three Colonels, by Jack Caldwell

Greetings, everybody! Jack Caldwell here. As you may know, my second published novel, THE THREE COLONELS: Jane Austen’s Fighting Men—a grand sequel to two of Jane Austen’s works: Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility—was originally published on-line. What you may not know is I also wrote a vignette about the characters in that story …

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An Excerpt from ROSINGS PARK – Mr. Darcy and Mr. Collins

Greetings, everybody! Jack Caldwell here. As anyone who has read the ground-breaking THE THREE COLONELS (a sequel to both Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility), they know I love to write about Jane Austen’s minor characters, imbuing them with more human feelings, talents, and fallacies. I see them in shades of gray. After all, …

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The Austen Interviews – An Interview with Colonel Fitzwilliam

The Cajun Cheesehead Chronicles by Jack Caldwell The Austen Interviews – An Interview with Colonel Fitzwilliam [Originally posted 04/28/2011]   JACK CALDWELL – Hello, everyone—Jack Caldwell here. We all know that Fitzwilliam Darcy is Jane Austen’s ideal man and the readers’ favorite gentleman. For this edition of The Cajun Cheesehead Chronicles, I’m pleased to interview …

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Chapter Three from ROSINGS PARK by Jack Caldwell

Greetings, everybody! Jack Caldwell here. One of the first novels I wrote was the ground-breaking THE THREE COLONELS, a sequel to both Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. It was also the first book in my Jane Austen’s Fighting Men Series. I’ve have released the second book in that series, THE LAST ADVENTURE OF …

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