Category: Publishing
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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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Why bother with my ‘Darcy’?
Why bother with my Darcy? Why not just re-read – for surely everyone here will certainly have read it! – Pride and Prejudice, itself? I was asked this question by a sceptical fellow tennis-mad friend. “After all,” she added, “You’ve admitted that the plot is mostly the same.” FIRST ANSWER: Because Austen never married. In…
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‘Friendly Companionship’ in ‘Terrible Environment’
In a recent blog, we saw the importance of books to soldiers in the field during World War I and World War II. Several Jane Austen novels, as well as a book about Austen’s work, were among those. Question: How did the soldiers, sailors, and air personnel get their copies? In the first war, large…
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Reviews? Didn’t we just talk about those?
I’ve had a lot of time this month to think about reviews. It turns out that while my eye is safe and sound, it is taking its own sweet time about getting better. That has taken me from a lot of fun stuff like reading, writing, fulminating, expostulating, and throwing things. It has in turn…
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Because I Love to Give Value Here …
HOW TO GET LEGITIMATE READER REVIEWS This is a column not only for (a) readers (how to get to read and review ARCs of new books for free) but ALSO for (b) writers. (How to get more, and often more professional, book reviews). Let’s start with the readers. Here, I think you have to be…
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It’s Finally Here!
My second book – Cause to Repine – is finally launching! So, I owe you all an explanation. Nearly a year ago, I sent out the first set of ARCs for my second book, Cause to Repine. It was downloaded by more than 200 separate people, and read/reviewed on Goodreads. I thought I was done…
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A Little Reviews Preview
My eyes grow dim, I cannot see.I have not brought my specs with me Actually in this case, my eyes really are growing dim. We’re no longer terrified of a detached retina, but I have been ordered by the eye doctor to take it easy. So instead of a comprehensive review of book reviews on…
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Indie Book Awards – to enter, or not to?
Sometimes I’m just going… ‘Whaaaaat? Me on Always Austen again? Regina’s messed up. It can’t be me, already!’ (Note to self: Regina never messes up. She is enviably organized!!! And so… it is me. Tough luck, people!) Anyway, we came back, yesterday, to a freezing London, from a freezing northern Virginia, where we visited my…
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A Stroll Down Memory Lane, a Guest Post from Laura Hile
Today I have the pleasure to fill in for my friend, Barbara Cornthwaite. Barbara and I go way back, back to a time when online fiction forums—and the Internet—were young. This was before Facebook and Instagram and good gracious, even before Myspace. It was indeed a heady time. Suddenly, thanks to the worldwide web, people…