Category: Regency romance
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Announcing the Winner of P.O. Dixon’s “Wait for Love” Giveaway
Always Austen is pleased to announce the winner of P.O. Dixon‘s “Wait for Love” Giveaway. Pam H. will receive a $5 Amazon eGift Card. Congratulation, Pam. Please contact Regina Jeffers, Giveaway Coordinator, at reginalm@rjeffers.com to claim your prize. [According to stated giveaway rules on Always Austen, all prizes must be claimed within 72 hours of…
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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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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,…
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Elizabeth Arrives in London Part II
Hello! and an early Happy Valentine’s Day! Can you believe it is February already? Well, since I left you hanging last month, I’ll jump right in this time. For those of you just joining or wanting to reread the prior posts, here are the links: What if?, What if? Part II, The Letter, Elizabeth’s Perspective, A Walk at Rosings, A Walk…
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How Did Greece’s History End Up in the British Museum?
Ancient Athens can be found in the British Museum, thanks to (or curses to, depending on whose side one chooses) Scottish nobleman Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin and 11th Earl of Kincardine. These priceless pieces of art and history are often called “the Elgin marbles.” You have likely seen this phrase in any number…
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Is Captain Wentworth a Jerk? + An Excerpt!
The argument that indicts Captain Wentworth usually goes something like this: When he and Anne Elliot were first engaged and she broke it off, she was very young. He had nothing except a dangerous career in the Navy during a war. It might end in promotion but was more likely to end in death. Anne…
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What Do You Look for and Enjoy When Reading?
I know that is a long title, and it could have been longer. 😊 However, I am looking for information concerning your reading of Pride and Prejudice Variations. For myself, I read the blurb for each book I am considering buying and/or reading and will even read any prologue or sample that Amazon offers if…
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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…
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Elizabeth Arrives in London Part I
Hello! I hope everyone had a fabulous holiday season. Both of my children were home (which hasn’t happened since May 2021) and we got to spend LOTS of time together while we quarantined. (I even convinced my daughter to watch P&P&Z with me.) 😀 Yep, COVID got us, but we are all well now, they…