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Excerpt from Dangerous Magic: Love-Hate Elizabeth meets Darcy

Hello everyone. I hope you’ve all recovered from the icy weather and the blackouts by now. It seems everything has been conspiring to make our lives more difficult in the past year. Let’s hope February will be a turning point and things will start looking up. 

The theme of the month on Austen Variations is love-hate, as you know. I thought it would nice if I set up a companion piece to the excerpt that just went up on Austenprose.  It’s a brand-new scene from my novel DANGEROUS MAGIC, which is c...

Love – and Hate, in Two Austen Novels

The Crawfords

Love and hate.  Jane Austen wrote about them both, sometimes in the same novel, and about the same characters. The love/hate relationship that first comes to mind is of course that of Darcy and Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice. The word hate is used several times in describing Lizzy’s early prejudiced feelings about Mr. Darcy. It is a strong word, more emphatic than just saying she didn’t like him, didn’t care for him; but Lizzy is one to be playful and occasionally exaggerate her ...

Love, Hate, and a giveaway (with dragons too!)

There are a few love -hate relationships in this little outtake from my latest WIP from my Jane Austen’s Dragons series. Actually it is not quite an outtake, but a little scene I wrote to better understand what was going on in the characters and the world, and wow, did I get a big surprise about a few things!

For those of you who aren’t familiar with the series, April is Elizabeth’s particular Friend fairy dragon (see the picture below) who has been with her since childhood. Elizabeth is now La...

Dangerous Magic: Prologue

Well, the wild winds and snow of Storm Darcy that had us in its thrall here in the UK are over, and we are back to our normal February weather. Much as I love Darcy, I am glad the storm is gone and the snow clouds have lifted. Like all angst, it’s okay if it lasts a short while, but the HEA ending is always a relief!

As I promised last week, here is the Prologue for Dangerous Magic. Since it is the introduction of the book, I don’t really need to introduce it, but I’m including the description i...

Love/Hate Excerpt from “Leap of Hope”

I hope you had a lovely Valentine’s Day, finding some appropriate way to celebrate, even in these difficult times. I’m thinking that as long as there was chocolate and a good book or movie involved, it was a winner. If your sweetheart was snuggled up beside you too, so much the better!

This month, some of us are featuring Love/Hate relationships in our posts – think Lizzy and Darcy’s or a similar dynamic. So I thought I’d share an excerpt from Leap of Hope, which contains one such couple.

Hope i...

Celebrating Valentine’s Day at Pemberley

An 18th century Valentine’s card

Mr. Darcy put down his book and his face lighted as his wife entered the library. “So, you have found me,” he greeted her with a smile.

“That is not a matter of wonder. Where else would you be likely to be found, such a dark wet day as this, save the library?”

“Very true, although it leads me to observe that after three months of marriage, you are become alarmingly familiar with the predictability of my movements.”

“Alas! It is what married people come to, and yo...