Author: Riana Everly
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Interview with Colonel Fitzwilliam
I have a special guest today, an all-around favourite with so many of us. He’s dashing and charismatic, and everyone loves a man in uniform. Please welcome Colonel Richard Fitzwilliam, here to talk about his recent adventures as recounted in the novel A Soldier’s Tale. Col F: Thank you, Riana. It’s a pleasure to be…
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A Soldier’s Tale – Colonel Fitzwilliam takes centre stage
If you were to ask a gathering of Jane Austen fans and Pride and Prejudice lovers who their favourite side character is, I suspect Colonel Fitzwilliam would receive quite a large share of the votes. He has very little page-time, and Austen uses him as little more than a plot device, both to act as…
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A Soldier’s Tale – What the Colonel Did Next
It’s been a while since I’ve released a new JAFF novel. I’ve been busy writing, of course—in the past year I had JAFF short stories published in two terrific anthologies (Darcy Ever After and In the Path of Jane Austen) and released two non-JAFF novels as part of the multi-author Noble Hearts Historical Romance series.…
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Christmas in Paris: A Short Story
I’ve just returned from a wonderful holiday in Paris, one of the most beautiful cities I’ve ever seen. And of course, the plot bunnies kept on hopping all the time we were there. I hope you enjoy this short contemporary story that hopped out of my head. Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays. However you celebrate, may…
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Messiah – A Regency Tradition?
I was busy thinking about what to write about this month. I have a book coming out early in 2026, starring our beloved Colonel Fitzwilliam, and I considered that. I’m also finally finishing Miss Mary and Alexander Lyons’ next mystery, set in the world of Persuasion, and that was an option too. Then, on one…
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Pride, Pursuit, and Pictures
It’s just over a year since I released Pride and Pursuit, my most recent Pride and Prejudice variation, a caper wherein Darcy steals a carriage… with Elizabeth Bennet inside! On the run for their lives, they need to put personal differences aside as they make all haste for the one place Darcy thinks they will…
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Paths Retraced: Travels and an Anthology
As I write this post, I’m still dusting the final vestiges of jet lag from my shoulders, almost but not quite back into the routine and—yes—time zone of my normal, everyday life. We returned just a week ago from another visit to the United Kingdom. We were there to help my daughter settle into her…
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All The World’s A Stage
We just returned home from our second visit of the summer to the Stratford Festival here in Ontario to end the summer with a celebration of theatre. This time, it was all Shakespeare! The festival—being in a place called Stratford, which is most conveniently on the River Avon—concentrates on The Bard’s works, and has a…
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All the World’s A Stage – Sense and Sensibility, the theatre, and a new novel
I am most fortunate to live within an easy drive of one of North America’s best summer theatre festivals, the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. We are great theatre fans in this family, and make a point of going to several performances each summer. Sometimes we spend the night, other times we drive there…
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The Soldier and the Author
Last month, I mentioned that I’ve started into serious edits for a novel I began a while ago. The working title is The Soldier’s Tale, and this is Colonel Fitzwilliam’s story. As do so many Austen-inspired authors, I love the colonel. Jane Austen gives us such a small glimpse of him; he is little more…