Category: retelling
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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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If 4 Iconic Jane Austen Couples did the Super Bowl
Whether you are a sports person or not, you might have heard that the Super Bowl just happened on Sunday here in the U.S., in Las Vegas, Nevada. And whether you are a Swiftie or not, you might also have heard that Taylor Swift was there to support and congratulate her boyfriend Travis Kelce on…
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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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Writing and Experiencing Place
I’m writing this as I sit in a hotel room in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I’m here for a writing workshop, something I’ve never done before. The topics of discussion are amazing and I’m looking forward to developing my craft as well as meeting people at all stages of their writing careers. This isn’t my first…
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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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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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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…
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Short Story from Christmas Anthology
Happy New Year!! I am very excited to celebrate another year with the amazing friends and writers here at the Always Austen Blog. This community is such a boon to me, I love it here! Thank you to everyone who has supported my writing in 2023 and there’s more to come in 2024. For this,…
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Life Imitating Art
I’ve written a bit recently about my new series, Austen Echoes, and I’m thrilled that the first book, All the Wrong Notes, has been released and is getting some terrific reviews. If you like contemporary Austen and music, these are definitely books you’ll want to take a look at. This series of three retellings is…