Category: Cover Reveal
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An Interrupted Proposal Cover Reveal
Wow! It has been a long time coming, and you have been soooo patient! First, I am really excited to get this book out in print. There have been a few challenges as my life erupted in the past couple months, which has caused some delays, but we are finally coming down to the wire!…
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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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Celebrating the Release of “Lyon in the Way” from Dragonblade Publishers
Today, I am taking off my “Jane Austen hat” and putting on my “Regency” hat, for on June 18, the first book of my mystery series for Dragonblade Publishers will release. It is a five book series, of which I have finished four to date; they are in different stages of production. They will release…
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Ranking the Most Emotionally Clueless Austen Men
(A lighthearted list — Mr. Collins is obvious, but not alone) They say the wrong thing. They entirely miss the point. Sometimes they launch into a long, confident speech, while everyone else wonders if there’s a polite way to make it stop. Many of these moments belong to the Austen men who are not villains.…
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Preview of “Four Misses Bennet Come to Brighton”
I am working on a new Austen tale to be published later this year. That is to say, I am working on a new Austen tale AND book 4 of a series of Regency romantic suspense/mystery books for Dragonblade Publishers AND a novella for a summer Regency anthology from Dreamstone Publishing. [This discounts all the…
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What Do We Know of Honor? + the Upcoming Release of “Leave Her Wild”
Much of the action of my latest Austen vagary (available on preorder today, with a February 10 release date) lies on Fitzwilliam Darcy being an “honorable” man. In this tale, he proposes to Jane Bennet and then realizes she accepted him for her family requires saving after Lydia’s elopement with Mr. Wickham, while he has…
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May Is a Big Month for the McVeighs!!
First, we shall see our daughter Rachel, who is a Presidential Scholar (Ph.D-level) at Harvard. Once term is over at Harvard, she’ll be home!! Second, my husband’s Music in Edwardian London (designed to please my fellow music lovers, my husband’s new book about music in London 1890 to 1914) is released. On the same day,…
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Cover Reveal for Austen’s Creative Development
I’m pleased to announce today the cover reveal for my new book on Jane Austen’s creative process and her development as a writer. The nonfiction book, Jane Austen and the Creation of Modern Fiction: Six Novels in a “Style Entirely New,” can also be pre-ordered now from Jane Austen Books. It will be available in…
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Misfortunes, Misunderstandings, Mistakes, and Merriment
Misfortunes, misunderstandings, and mistakes aren’t just the pitfalls of our favorite characters’ lives; they are the very elements that make their journeys toward merriment so compelling. Expect to find all these elements and more inside the pages of my multi-volume collection, For More Reasons than One. In the spirit of Throwback Thursday, I am sharing…
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Writing Lows and Highs in Austen-Inspired Stories, a Guest Post from Susan Kaye
The blog mistress of Always Austen has asked me to write a post in the stead of Barbara Cornthwaite. Barbara is my editor, and she will be familiar with what I have to write here as she has seen my raw writing firsthand. Poor thing. Jane Austen wrote in an unfinished book, Catherine or the Bower,…