Christina Morland's Blog
February 11, 2025
A story, an interview, and a blog post
Hi, Friends!
Just a few February updates...
It was my honor to be interviewed by Christina Boyd! Check it out here.
I've also been posting a story on Austen Variations. It's unfinished, and it's a little different (set in 1939 New York), but if you're looking to chase away the February blues, hope this will help?
Finally, I posted a question on my blog today: Why do we love Elizabeth and Darcy so much? It's an old question with many answers, but I'd love to hear yours here.
Happy February to you all!
Just a few February updates...
It was my honor to be interviewed by Christina Boyd! Check it out here.
I've also been posting a story on Austen Variations. It's unfinished, and it's a little different (set in 1939 New York), but if you're looking to chase away the February blues, hope this will help?
Finally, I posted a question on my blog today: Why do we love Elizabeth and Darcy so much? It's an old question with many answers, but I'd love to hear yours here.
Happy February to you all!
January 7, 2025
Audiobook News!
Hi, Friends!
I'm so excited to let you know who has agreed to narrate my very first audiobook! Check out my website for more info about the audiobook, as well as for updates about my writing, which continues to happen -- just very slowly. :)
Hope you're all having a wonderful start to 2025!
All the best,
Christina
I'm so excited to let you know who has agreed to narrate my very first audiobook! Check out my website for more info about the audiobook, as well as for updates about my writing, which continues to happen -- just very slowly. :)
Hope you're all having a wonderful start to 2025!
All the best,
Christina
May 28, 2024
A Pride and Prejudice Reread: Chapter 1-5
I’m rereading Pride and Prejudice for the umpteenth time — this time to discuss the book with an acquaintance of mine who recently moved to the U.S. and is hoping to improve her English. She has read the book in Vietnamese, and I’m so honored to read and discuss the novel with her in English! (I certainly can’t read Pride and Prejudice in any other language, so to all of you multilingual readers and speakers out there, you’re amazing!)
I thought I’d post a few observations that struck me as I reread the novel:
Chapters 1 and 2: I absolutely love how Jane Austen introduces us to each member of the Bennet family. In just two short chapters, we immediately learn something important about each individual (except perhaps Elizabeth).
Consider poor Mary’s introduction: “Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how” (Chapter 2). Ouch!
Chapter 3: The paragraph below represents, for me, one of the most humorous ways of describing the logistics of gossip. (Second place: Norman Rockwell’s great image, “The Gossips.” ) Here’s the paragraph:
“…a report soon followed that Mr. Bingley was to bring twelve ladies and seven gentlemen with him to the assembly. The girls grieved over such a number of ladies; but were comforted the day before the ball by hearing that, instead of twelve, he had brought only six with him from London, his five sisters and a cousin. And when the party entered the assembly room, it consisted of only five altogether; Mr. Bingley, his two sisters, the husband of the eldest, and another young man.” — Chapter 3 (emphasis mine)
Also, I always find it noteworthy that Mrs. Bennet rejects Mr. Darcy from the start for slighting Elizabeth (her least favorite daughter!) — and that the rest of Meryton seems to dislike Darcy, as well. Too often in JAFF, we depict Darcy as someone who is continually sought after, but Darcy proves to be a man who walls himself off with his hauteur and reserve. Even among this marriage-minded crowd of matrons, Darcy’s wealth is not enough to overcome his supposed deficiency in manners:
“for he was discovered to be proud, to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his friend” (Chapter 3, emphasis mine).
Chapter 4: We JAFF writers also tend to depict Bingley as inept and silly, but Austen reminds us that he has qualities that endear him to Darcy — and to many others. He is not the bumbling fool but a socially adept gentleman:
“Bingley was sure of being liked wherever he appeared, Darcy was continually giving offense” (Chapter 4).
Note that this description comes not in the context of the Meryton Assembly, but in Austen’s omniscient narration in the next chapter, when she’s giving us a more “objective” look at these characters. This suggests to me that it’s not just in Meryton where Darcy makes himself disagreeable and Bingley becomes a crowd favorite; this happens in other places, too — perhaps even in London.
Whatever their station and their location, people like to be liked. I could definitely see Bingley being a favorite, even among the status-minded ton, while Darcy sits on the sidelines, even at a posh London gathering. Perhaps not all the genteel London mothers would have wanted their daughters to marry Bingley, but I think he would have been popular wherever he went because he is always ready to be pleased by others, whereas Darcy is always ready to be dissatisfied.
These qualities tell us something significant about the Darcy-Bingley friendship: Darcy must have seen in Bingley qualities worth overcoming his natural reserve, and Bingley must have seen in Darcy something more than his hauteur. Yes, yes, you can be cynical and imagine that Darcy is using Bingley because he wants a “project” (see Emma Woodhouse and Harriet Smith), while Bingley is putting up with Darcy for his wealth and connections (see the Bertram siblings and Mr. Rushworth ). But I really like the idea that Bingley and Darcy are the kind of friends who see past the surfaces of each other!
Chapter 5: This chapter, which at first glance seems to do little for the plot, actually forecasts the novel’s major storyline — a prognostication delivered by Mary, no less:
“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us” (Chapter 5.)
It turns out Mary does have something sensible to say, after all! Pride and Prejudice could also be called Pride and Vanity, though it wouldn’t have sounded nearly as good. Darcy (for all his admirable qualities) thinks too highly of himself, at least when it comes to his first proposal; Elizabeth (for all her independence of spirit) finds herself influenced by others’ opinions of her (Wickham’s flattery vs Darcy’s insult). Mary has warned us all of what’s to come. Now we get to see it unfold…
So, what are your favorite moments in these early chapters?
I thought I’d post a few observations that struck me as I reread the novel:
Chapters 1 and 2: I absolutely love how Jane Austen introduces us to each member of the Bennet family. In just two short chapters, we immediately learn something important about each individual (except perhaps Elizabeth).
Consider poor Mary’s introduction: “Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how” (Chapter 2). Ouch!
Chapter 3: The paragraph below represents, for me, one of the most humorous ways of describing the logistics of gossip. (Second place: Norman Rockwell’s great image, “The Gossips.” ) Here’s the paragraph:
“…a report soon followed that Mr. Bingley was to bring twelve ladies and seven gentlemen with him to the assembly. The girls grieved over such a number of ladies; but were comforted the day before the ball by hearing that, instead of twelve, he had brought only six with him from London, his five sisters and a cousin. And when the party entered the assembly room, it consisted of only five altogether; Mr. Bingley, his two sisters, the husband of the eldest, and another young man.” — Chapter 3 (emphasis mine)
Also, I always find it noteworthy that Mrs. Bennet rejects Mr. Darcy from the start for slighting Elizabeth (her least favorite daughter!) — and that the rest of Meryton seems to dislike Darcy, as well. Too often in JAFF, we depict Darcy as someone who is continually sought after, but Darcy proves to be a man who walls himself off with his hauteur and reserve. Even among this marriage-minded crowd of matrons, Darcy’s wealth is not enough to overcome his supposed deficiency in manners:
“for he was discovered to be proud, to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his friend” (Chapter 3, emphasis mine).
Chapter 4: We JAFF writers also tend to depict Bingley as inept and silly, but Austen reminds us that he has qualities that endear him to Darcy — and to many others. He is not the bumbling fool but a socially adept gentleman:
“Bingley was sure of being liked wherever he appeared, Darcy was continually giving offense” (Chapter 4).
Note that this description comes not in the context of the Meryton Assembly, but in Austen’s omniscient narration in the next chapter, when she’s giving us a more “objective” look at these characters. This suggests to me that it’s not just in Meryton where Darcy makes himself disagreeable and Bingley becomes a crowd favorite; this happens in other places, too — perhaps even in London.
Whatever their station and their location, people like to be liked. I could definitely see Bingley being a favorite, even among the status-minded ton, while Darcy sits on the sidelines, even at a posh London gathering. Perhaps not all the genteel London mothers would have wanted their daughters to marry Bingley, but I think he would have been popular wherever he went because he is always ready to be pleased by others, whereas Darcy is always ready to be dissatisfied.
These qualities tell us something significant about the Darcy-Bingley friendship: Darcy must have seen in Bingley qualities worth overcoming his natural reserve, and Bingley must have seen in Darcy something more than his hauteur. Yes, yes, you can be cynical and imagine that Darcy is using Bingley because he wants a “project” (see Emma Woodhouse and Harriet Smith), while Bingley is putting up with Darcy for his wealth and connections (see the Bertram siblings and Mr. Rushworth ). But I really like the idea that Bingley and Darcy are the kind of friends who see past the surfaces of each other!
Chapter 5: This chapter, which at first glance seems to do little for the plot, actually forecasts the novel’s major storyline — a prognostication delivered by Mary, no less:
“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us” (Chapter 5.)
It turns out Mary does have something sensible to say, after all! Pride and Prejudice could also be called Pride and Vanity, though it wouldn’t have sounded nearly as good. Darcy (for all his admirable qualities) thinks too highly of himself, at least when it comes to his first proposal; Elizabeth (for all her independence of spirit) finds herself influenced by others’ opinions of her (Wickham’s flattery vs Darcy’s insult). Mary has warned us all of what’s to come. Now we get to see it unfold…
So, what are your favorite moments in these early chapters?
April 22, 2024
Bantering Out of Doors
Hi, Friends!
Just a note to say hello, I hope you all are well, and, by the way, I'm still writing on occasion!
On the novel front -- yeah, I'm pretty slow and often get stuck. (Writing a mystery romance is tough -- at least for me!) But I'm not giving up!
On the short story front -- to keep myself from feeling too much despair about the novel, I've been writing occasional short stories for Austen Variations. I've noticed I have a real addiction to putting Elizabeth and Darcy in a lovely but lonely outdoor space so they can banter and flirt as much as they like.
In the last few months, I've written two such stories: "Tomorrow" (https://austenvariations.com/tomorrow...) and "Shattered" (https://austenvariations.com/shattere...).
And of course there's the short story I wrote for the fabulous Christina Angel Boyd's anthology Elizabeth: Obstinate, Headstrong Girl.
I suppose it makes sense that a Regency-era Elizabeth and Darcy would need to find an isolated spot outdoors, away from the ears of others, to have an authentic conversation.
But even in the modern novella I wrote for Austen Variations (Strokes of Inelegance, https://austenvariations.com/a-new-sh...), prominent scenes take place outside.
Well, seems like I'm more of an outdoors girl than I thought! (I was that kid who had to be shooed outside because I wanted to remain curled up on the couch reading or -- I'll admit it -- watching soap operas with my babysitter!)
So, if you're in the mood for some moments of outdoor bantering between Elizabeth and Darcy, and you haven't had a chance to check out the short stories above, I hope you find them to be -- I can't resist -- a breath of fresh air! :)
Best,
Christina
Just a note to say hello, I hope you all are well, and, by the way, I'm still writing on occasion!
On the novel front -- yeah, I'm pretty slow and often get stuck. (Writing a mystery romance is tough -- at least for me!) But I'm not giving up!
On the short story front -- to keep myself from feeling too much despair about the novel, I've been writing occasional short stories for Austen Variations. I've noticed I have a real addiction to putting Elizabeth and Darcy in a lovely but lonely outdoor space so they can banter and flirt as much as they like.
In the last few months, I've written two such stories: "Tomorrow" (https://austenvariations.com/tomorrow...) and "Shattered" (https://austenvariations.com/shattere...).
And of course there's the short story I wrote for the fabulous Christina Angel Boyd's anthology Elizabeth: Obstinate, Headstrong Girl.
I suppose it makes sense that a Regency-era Elizabeth and Darcy would need to find an isolated spot outdoors, away from the ears of others, to have an authentic conversation.
But even in the modern novella I wrote for Austen Variations (Strokes of Inelegance, https://austenvariations.com/a-new-sh...), prominent scenes take place outside.
Well, seems like I'm more of an outdoors girl than I thought! (I was that kid who had to be shooed outside because I wanted to remain curled up on the couch reading or -- I'll admit it -- watching soap operas with my babysitter!)
So, if you're in the mood for some moments of outdoor bantering between Elizabeth and Darcy, and you haven't had a chance to check out the short stories above, I hope you find them to be -- I can't resist -- a breath of fresh air! :)
Best,
Christina
February 3, 2024
Jane, Jane, Jane
I thought I'd share three "Jane" moments from the past month:
1. I wrote a vignette from the perspective of Jane Bennet for Austen Variations's "P&P: The Untold Stories" series. That was fun! (But I learned it's not easy being Jane!)
2. I've been (slowly) reading Jane Austen's juvenilia. While I've enjoyed seeing a 13-year-old Jane Austen at work (she was clearly interested in satire and humor from a young age), some of the stories are quite silly. I wonder what she'd think, knowing millions of people spend hours poring over the work of her adolescent self? Favorite quote so far from the juvenilia: "Run mad as often as you chuse; but do not faint." (Love and Friendship)
3. Now that we're in the thick of winter, I often wear scarves, including one decorated with text from Jane Eyre; a friend gave me the scarf years ago, knowing I loved "Jane" -- but not realizing the Jane I often mentioned was the author Jane Austen, rather than the fictional character, Jane Eyre. I do, in fact, love Jane Eyre, too -- but I wonder what Charlotte Bronte (who did not like Jane Austen's work, I believe) would think of that mix up? :)
Happy February and happy reading to you all!
1. I wrote a vignette from the perspective of Jane Bennet for Austen Variations's "P&P: The Untold Stories" series. That was fun! (But I learned it's not easy being Jane!)
2. I've been (slowly) reading Jane Austen's juvenilia. While I've enjoyed seeing a 13-year-old Jane Austen at work (she was clearly interested in satire and humor from a young age), some of the stories are quite silly. I wonder what she'd think, knowing millions of people spend hours poring over the work of her adolescent self? Favorite quote so far from the juvenilia: "Run mad as often as you chuse; but do not faint." (Love and Friendship)
3. Now that we're in the thick of winter, I often wear scarves, including one decorated with text from Jane Eyre; a friend gave me the scarf years ago, knowing I loved "Jane" -- but not realizing the Jane I often mentioned was the author Jane Austen, rather than the fictional character, Jane Eyre. I do, in fact, love Jane Eyre, too -- but I wonder what Charlotte Bronte (who did not like Jane Austen's work, I believe) would think of that mix up? :)
Happy February and happy reading to you all!
December 1, 2023
Austen's Letters, Part II (Or, how Austen responds to mansplaining)
Hi, Friends!
I'm finally nearing the end of Jane Austen's Letters, which I began way back in January. (What can I say? I'm a slow writer and a slow reader!)
I've loved many different lines from Austen's letters (and cringed at many others), but I think these lines, penned in response to what we might today called "mansplaining," are my favorite:
“You are very, very kind in your hints as to the sort of Composition which might recommend me at present, & I am fully sensible that an Historical Romance, founded on the house of Saxe Cobourg, might be much more to the purpose of Profit or Popularity, than such pictures of domestic life in Country Villages as I deal in — but I could no more write a Romance than an Epic Poem. — I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my Life & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first Chapter. — No— I must keep to my own style & go on in my own Way, and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other." (Jane Austen to James Stainer Clarke, 1 April 1816)
As the chaplain and secretary to the Prince of Cobourg (Leopold I, who was about to marry George IV's daughter, Charlotte), Clarke surely thought he was being helpful to Austen.
But still, looking back -- hah! I absolutely love that Austen dared to write such a response to some big name royal appointee! Sure, her words are polite on the surface, but they're also a rebuke -- just the kind of zinger we'd expect to read in one of her novels.
Also, I'm fully aware of the irony that I, a fanfic author -- a person who writes Historical Romances using her characters -- am laughing at her response. Yes, yes, Ms. Austen: I've taken your characters and done terrible things to them! I am forever grateful for your wit and wisdom, dear Author!
Finally, is this not the best advice to any writer -- to any person -- out there? " No— I must keep to my own style & go on in my own Way, and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other."
Happy reading and writing to you all!
Best,
Christina
I'm finally nearing the end of Jane Austen's Letters, which I began way back in January. (What can I say? I'm a slow writer and a slow reader!)
I've loved many different lines from Austen's letters (and cringed at many others), but I think these lines, penned in response to what we might today called "mansplaining," are my favorite:
“You are very, very kind in your hints as to the sort of Composition which might recommend me at present, & I am fully sensible that an Historical Romance, founded on the house of Saxe Cobourg, might be much more to the purpose of Profit or Popularity, than such pictures of domestic life in Country Villages as I deal in — but I could no more write a Romance than an Epic Poem. — I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my Life & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first Chapter. — No— I must keep to my own style & go on in my own Way, and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other." (Jane Austen to James Stainer Clarke, 1 April 1816)
As the chaplain and secretary to the Prince of Cobourg (Leopold I, who was about to marry George IV's daughter, Charlotte), Clarke surely thought he was being helpful to Austen.
But still, looking back -- hah! I absolutely love that Austen dared to write such a response to some big name royal appointee! Sure, her words are polite on the surface, but they're also a rebuke -- just the kind of zinger we'd expect to read in one of her novels.
Also, I'm fully aware of the irony that I, a fanfic author -- a person who writes Historical Romances using her characters -- am laughing at her response. Yes, yes, Ms. Austen: I've taken your characters and done terrible things to them! I am forever grateful for your wit and wisdom, dear Author!
Finally, is this not the best advice to any writer -- to any person -- out there? " No— I must keep to my own style & go on in my own Way, and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other."
Happy reading and writing to you all!
Best,
Christina
January 3, 2023
Austen's Letters, 1796
Well, it's been a while! I've been trying to learn how to balance various parts of my life -- writing, teaching, parenting, general living. I'm writing again, still teaching part-time, and being a (mostly) decent mom, so I guess it's going...well? Anyway, I'm having fun. :)
I'm always amazed by how many identities and tasks other people balance in their daily lives. How do you all accomplish so much in a mere twenty-four hours (sixteen if you're getting enough sleep)? If you have any tips, let me know!
But for now, I just wanted to share a few tidbits from Jane Austen's Letters, which I began a few days ago for the Austenesque Lovers 2023 January challenge.
So, here are a few favorite moments or thoughts from the 1796 letters, in no particular order:
Humor! That's to be expected, of course. I wish I could write letters half so funny! Don't you just love sentences like this one?
"Here I am once more in this Scene of Dissipation & vice, and I begin already to find my Morals corrupted" (JA to sister Cassandra, 23 Aug 1796).
Love Life? So, here's something shocking: I have never read a full-length Austen biography. That means I'm wading through these letters only half-understanding what's happening to Austen and her family in 1796. Still, I rather like this blind approach, as I get to imagine that her references to Tom LeFroy (supposedly the man she loved but could not marry) are more sarcastic than romantic. I don't know why I prefer that; I suppose I just hate to think Austen was ever truly heartbroken.
Anyway, don't you think this line has to be sarcastic?
"At length the Day is come on which I am to flirt my last with Tom Lefroy, & when you receive this it will be over -- -- My tears flow as I write, at the melancholy idea" (JA to sister Cassandra, 14-15 January 1796). Perhaps she writes with humor because she doesn't truly believe it is over, and her true feeling of melancholy happens "off stage," so to speak? (Or in one of the many letters Cassandra ended up burning?)
Real Life: I've loved the chatty nature of these letters, even if I don't understand half the references Austen is making. (Editor Deirdre Le Faye's notes certainly help!) I'm reminded that, even if Austen and her contemporaries lived by a different set of cultural codes, they were still humans who laughed, cried, flirted, made purchases, visited friends, etc. I sometimes think we Regency authors focus too much on the "rules" of this society, as if they dictated every moment of people's lives and feelings. It's as if some future historian were to take a look at the rules of the school where I work and assume these rules tell us how my students live their lives. Believe me, the "no cell phone during the school day" rule is not the way most of my students live (at least until I confiscate their phones... muahahaha!).
All right, that's enough for now. Back to writing! (For a variety of reasons, I don't actually teach again until February, so I have another month to buckle down and make progress -- I hope -- on Disappearing Act, which, believe it or not, I'm still writing!)
Happy 2023 to you all!
I'm always amazed by how many identities and tasks other people balance in their daily lives. How do you all accomplish so much in a mere twenty-four hours (sixteen if you're getting enough sleep)? If you have any tips, let me know!
But for now, I just wanted to share a few tidbits from Jane Austen's Letters, which I began a few days ago for the Austenesque Lovers 2023 January challenge.
So, here are a few favorite moments or thoughts from the 1796 letters, in no particular order:
Humor! That's to be expected, of course. I wish I could write letters half so funny! Don't you just love sentences like this one?
"Here I am once more in this Scene of Dissipation & vice, and I begin already to find my Morals corrupted" (JA to sister Cassandra, 23 Aug 1796).
Love Life? So, here's something shocking: I have never read a full-length Austen biography. That means I'm wading through these letters only half-understanding what's happening to Austen and her family in 1796. Still, I rather like this blind approach, as I get to imagine that her references to Tom LeFroy (supposedly the man she loved but could not marry) are more sarcastic than romantic. I don't know why I prefer that; I suppose I just hate to think Austen was ever truly heartbroken.
Anyway, don't you think this line has to be sarcastic?
"At length the Day is come on which I am to flirt my last with Tom Lefroy, & when you receive this it will be over -- -- My tears flow as I write, at the melancholy idea" (JA to sister Cassandra, 14-15 January 1796). Perhaps she writes with humor because she doesn't truly believe it is over, and her true feeling of melancholy happens "off stage," so to speak? (Or in one of the many letters Cassandra ended up burning?)
Real Life: I've loved the chatty nature of these letters, even if I don't understand half the references Austen is making. (Editor Deirdre Le Faye's notes certainly help!) I'm reminded that, even if Austen and her contemporaries lived by a different set of cultural codes, they were still humans who laughed, cried, flirted, made purchases, visited friends, etc. I sometimes think we Regency authors focus too much on the "rules" of this society, as if they dictated every moment of people's lives and feelings. It's as if some future historian were to take a look at the rules of the school where I work and assume these rules tell us how my students live their lives. Believe me, the "no cell phone during the school day" rule is not the way most of my students live (at least until I confiscate their phones... muahahaha!).
All right, that's enough for now. Back to writing! (For a variety of reasons, I don't actually teach again until February, so I have another month to buckle down and make progress -- I hope -- on Disappearing Act, which, believe it or not, I'm still writing!)
Happy 2023 to you all!
July 26, 2021
Austen's Relevance
Greetings!
What keeps Austen's works alive centuries later? Join me as I talk with author and commentator Dami Scott about this very question on the latest episode of Austenesque Musings. As the moderator of Black Girl Loves Jane on Facebook, Dami encourages discussion about all things Jane. And she's almost finished writing her modern adaptation of Persuasion. She graciously read an excerpt on the podcast, so I hope you'll check it out!
Happy reading (and listening) to you all!
What keeps Austen's works alive centuries later? Join me as I talk with author and commentator Dami Scott about this very question on the latest episode of Austenesque Musings. As the moderator of Black Girl Loves Jane on Facebook, Dami encourages discussion about all things Jane. And she's almost finished writing her modern adaptation of Persuasion. She graciously read an excerpt on the podcast, so I hope you'll check it out!
Happy reading (and listening) to you all!
June 17, 2021
Conversation and Experimentation
Hi, Friends!
Happy June to you! I'm excited to share episode four of my podcast, Austenesque Musings. Join the conversation with three great readers of Austenesque--Gina, Paige, and Wendy--as we discuss what readers want, Jane Austen's depictions of women, and more. (Also, there's a giveaway for commenters!)
On the writing front, I've been experimenting with a different sort of Darcy (and a different sort of storyline) for me. I've posted a short excerpt from my WIP, Disappearing Act at my blog.
Hope you're all happy, healthy, and having a lovely start to summer (or winter, depending on your hemisphere).
All the best,
Christina
Happy June to you! I'm excited to share episode four of my podcast, Austenesque Musings. Join the conversation with three great readers of Austenesque--Gina, Paige, and Wendy--as we discuss what readers want, Jane Austen's depictions of women, and more. (Also, there's a giveaway for commenters!)
On the writing front, I've been experimenting with a different sort of Darcy (and a different sort of storyline) for me. I've posted a short excerpt from my WIP, Disappearing Act at my blog.
Hope you're all happy, healthy, and having a lovely start to summer (or winter, depending on your hemisphere).
All the best,
Christina
May 26, 2021
A New P&P Vignette and a New Podcast Episode!
Hi, Friends!
If you’re looking for a little Elizabeth/Darcy infusion, check out this vignette I wrote for Austen Variations (a lovely group I joined last month)!
And I’m so excited to share my conversation with the lovely Meredith of Austenesque Reviews on the latest episode of Austenesque Musings! We talk about Austen (of course), trends in Austenesque, Fezzik (who?), and just which Austen book Meredith would jump into if she could. Leave me a comment about the show here, on Facebook, or at Anchor for a chance to win a free copy of one of my paperbacks! (Speaking of which, I’m going to put Seasons of Waiting in paperback soon, I swear!)
Happy May to you all!
If you’re looking for a little Elizabeth/Darcy infusion, check out this vignette I wrote for Austen Variations (a lovely group I joined last month)!
And I’m so excited to share my conversation with the lovely Meredith of Austenesque Reviews on the latest episode of Austenesque Musings! We talk about Austen (of course), trends in Austenesque, Fezzik (who?), and just which Austen book Meredith would jump into if she could. Leave me a comment about the show here, on Facebook, or at Anchor for a chance to win a free copy of one of my paperbacks! (Speaking of which, I’m going to put Seasons of Waiting in paperback soon, I swear!)
Happy May to you all!
