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June 29, 2023
2023 Austen Variations Summer Book Sale
The 2023 Semi-Annual Book Sale!It’s summertime and the living is easy! Time to buy your beach reading. Jane Austen Variations will help you out with this generous Book Sale!
Enjoy novels by Jennifer Altman, Jack Caldwell, L.L. Diamond, Amy D’Orazio, Monica Fairview, Lucy Marin, Christina Moreland, Anngela Schroeder, Joana Starnes, and Shannon Winslow!
Sale runs June 30 – July 2, 2023
Free!
Books for $.99
Books for $1.99
Books for $2.99
Books for $3.99
While th...
June 27, 2023
Birth in Venice by Diana Birchall
Lady Catherine de Bourgh was used to being well served. Therefore when she was awakened by the unaccustomed spectacle of her bedchamber filled with sunshine from a sun already fairly high in the sky, she was startled. Why, it must be past nine o’clock. Where was her maid? No one had come to pull back her curtains or stir up the morning fire; and when she sat up indignantly and looked around, it was evident that her clothes had not been laid out for her either.
Muttering furious imprecations, L...
A Matter of Prudence Cover Reveal & Excerpt
Happy Tuesday!
Last month, I told you about, A Matter of Prudence, my soon-to-be released new novel. It has its official launch on 7 August (not quite six weeks away!), and features something new for me—an Elizabeth and Darcy who are attracted to each other right from the beginning. There might be one or two other fun plots. (I think they’re fun, at least—haha.) You can read the first post here.
Today, I am back to to share the cover and another excerpt. Be sure to comment on this post for a ch...
June 25, 2023
A P&P Modern Short Story, Part Three
Greetings, friends! Long, long ago (in March), I posted the first part of a modern P&P short story. I began the project as a way to get out of my writing rut. While I can’t say I’ve accomplished that particular feat, I have managed to write another installment of the story! If you’d like to start from the beginning, here’s where you can find Part 1 and Part 2. The only real challenge I set for myself was to use Austen Variation’s monthly theme somewhere in the text. This month’s theme: “Church b...
June 21, 2023
Happy 10th Birthday, “Return to Longbourn”!
Return to Longbourn is 10 years old, and I want to celebrate with a short story, games, and prizes!
I’ll never forget the fun I had writing this book, even though (or actually, especially because) it didn’t go at all the way I had planned.
I set out to following up my first very successful P&P sequel (The Darcys of Pemberley) with a second. Jumping ahead about five years more in time, I wanted to finally answer the question first raised by Jane Austen herself 2oo years ago. What will happen to ...
June 20, 2023
A Look Back by Jennifer Altman
Hi, all! I hope your summer is off to a good start!
Last month, I was here celebrating the second birthday of my second novel, Faults of Understanding. So today, I thought it would be nice to give my first book baby, To Conquer Pride, a share in the conversation. 
It’s been a while since I’ve posted an excerpt from that book, so for those of you who aren’t familiar with the story, I’ll paste the blurb below. Enjoy!
The course of true love never did run smooth…
When Fitzwilliam Darcy departs Hun...
June 19, 2023
Impertinence and Impropriety: Dragon Voices in Jane Austen’s World
Generally, I like to keep all things author-ly light and fun. Way back in the dark ages, high school English felt rather traumatic, and very, very dark (Thomas Hardy, I’m looking squarely at you!) I don’t pretend to any great literary aspiration, but I do love story nearly as much as I love sociology and the study of culture. Occasionally, someone asks me to speak about the more scholarly aspects of writing and Austen, like the Jane Austen Summer Program did this year. So, I shed my fuzzy pi...
June 14, 2023
Chapter 2 Preview: Here There Be Dragons
Have a peek at the second chapter of the Wentworth’s new dragon adventure.Anne fastened her spencer and tied her hat in place with a double knot that the vicar’s widow, who lived in a cottage near the Spittles, had taught her. It had taken some time, and an unfortunate toll on her headwear, to get accustomed to the constant wind the shore seemed to require. Wentworth and Laconia paid it little mind, which made sense as it was as natural to them as the countryside was to her.
Wentworth...
June 13, 2023
Letters from Venice
Many changes had come to Longbourn since the day on which Mrs. Bennet had got rid of her two mostdeserving daughters. Once she would have protested that with all her daughters married, she would have nothing else to wish for, but the reality was something different, and Mrs Bennet had perhaps more complaints now than she did in the days when they were all still single.
The trouble began when Jane and Elizabeth moved so far away. Elizabeth began it, by removing to Pemberley, a vastly rich, bea...
June 8, 2023
Release day post – A Gentleman of Worth
A Gentleman of Worth is out on Kindle, KU, and paperback! l’m so excited to have Anthony and Amelia’s love story out there for everyone to read. So if you haven’t seen the blurb, I will put it below. Or if you just want to read about Anthony and Amelia, just click on the link to get your own copy or read it on KU!
If you missed the previews here, just follow the links to the first 4 chapters!
Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, and Chapter 4.
Now! For the blurb!
As the gran...
