Category: Jane Austen
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Jane Austen’s Diabolical Subversion of the Cinderella Story
This type of story, however, while appealing to our sense of lottery-winning, beauty-pageant triumph, is exciting, but it can leave the heroine without a lot of agency.
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Why Is Editing So Important?
Well, I am back . . . to a degree, but not 100%. Recuperation may be several months and may require surgery at some point, so it is just a waiting game for a while. In the meantime, I’m working to, at least, get back into the swing of things—to a degree—if that is possible.…
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Welcome to the “Fall in Love With Austen” Giveaway
Welcome to the Always Loving Austen Giveaway. (1) The giveaway runs through midnight EST Sunday, October 8, 2023. (2) Although we encourage you to comment below, to enter, you MUST use this Rafflecopter link. We hope you will SHARE with others, not only this giveaway, but also the articles you have read and enjoyed. (3) Winners will be contacted by email on Sunday, October…
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Taking a Break: Burning Questions that No Amount of Research Seems to Tackle
Friends of mine all over these United States—well, all over the world, really—are coping with the most awful weather patterns imaginable. Mother Nature is certainly letting us know she does not take too kindly to people messing with the climate, and we all know it’s not nice to fool Mother nature! The sole exception seems…
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Do Regency Men “Really” Care for Nothing But Looks?
To begin with, here’s the excerpt from my prizewinning new release, Darcy: A Pride and Prejudice Variation, which was what first got me thinking about it. (Note: most of the book is from Mr Darcy’s diaries, but I allowed myself the variety of Mary’s notes to self at certain points. Here, she is musing on…
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Meet the Gardiners
Hello! Has another month passed already? I hope everyone is enjoying the remains of summer. Around here, kids have returned to school and we are starting to plan for next year’s travels. I just finished my first college class and am prepping for the next one. Though I feared not having as much time to…
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Happy Sixth Book Birthday to “Mr. Darcy’s Bride(s)”
In my book, MR. DARCY’s BRIDEs, by mistake Elizabeth disrupts Mr. Darcy’s marriage to his cousin, Anne De Bourgh. Our daring heroine is in disguise (NOTE: I drape her with a heavy veil attached to her bonnet, which would not be likely in the Regency era, but it was not forbidden. No one can say for…
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Suspended Pleasures and Other Diversions
Cliffhangers. They’re the bane of many readers’ existence, yet we writers keep using them. So why do we do it? Why do we insist on ending a chapter with a nail-biting cliffhanger? First and foremost, cliffhangers are meant to keep you engaged, creating tension and excitement, and giving you a reason to keep turning the…
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Ten Things I Love About Austen
Since my first introduction to Jane Austen’s writing in 2005, I have been a devoted– dare I say, obsessed- fan. Her works have defined my life, and even my career, in a very real way, and I can honestly say that she is my favorite author. A friend asked me recently, what is it exactly…
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Pride and Prejudice with “& Juliet” Style
& Juliet is a 2019 coming-of-age jukebox musical. The story focuses on a “what if” scenario [Geez! Are not all Austenesque literature also “What If” scenarios?] where Juliet does not die at the end of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. In it, Juliet learns Romeo has had other relationships (both F & M), so she backs…