Laurie Viera Rigler's Blog: Jane Austen Addict, page 21

Sex & The Austen Girl: an original comedy web series on Babelgum.com












Last week I went shopping
for a chamberpot.

Not something I ever
imagined myself doing.

So what possessed me? I was donning
the hat of propmaster for SEX AND THE AUSTEN GIRL, the exciting new web series inspired
by my Austen Addict novels, which we just finished shooting.

That's right: In May you'll
be able to see the first episodes of Season One of SEX AND THE AUSTEN GIRL. An
original comedy series on the fabulous Babelgum.com. Air
dates to be announced very...

Read & Hear Jane Austen's HISTORY OF ENGLAND

The British Library has scanned its copy of Jane Austen's HISTORY OF ENGLAND, which you can read in her own hand AND hear read aloud by an excellent reader. (Just click on the "Listen" button.)

Jane Austen wrote the HISTORY OF ENGLAND when she was only 15 years old. It is "a lively parody that makes fun of the popular schoolroom books of the time."

There are many other manuscripts in the British Library's collection that have this feature, including ALICE'S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND and Mozart's...

NORTHANGER ABBEY, Twitter Version, Chapter 16

Could Catherine possibly be more fortunate? Her best friend Isabella is engaged to her brother, she is completely oblivious to John Thorpe's clumsy moves, and she is to have dinner at the Tilneys. Except that...

 

 

Catherine has dinner at the
Tilney's & finds the anticipation of the event was pleasanter than the
event itself.

 


"In spite of [General
Tilney's:] great civilities to her…it had been a release to get away from him…
"

[Liam Cunningham as General Tilney in...

Take the RUDE AWAKENINGS Poll

Ever wonder what it would be like for someone from Jane Austen's world to live in the 21st century? That's just what Jane Mansfield, the protagonist of RUDE AWAKENINGS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT, must learn to do.

What do you think would be her biggest challenge? Take the RUDE AWAKENINGS poll. And if you haven't read the book yet, the new paperback edition is available for pre-order now and will hit bookstores by April 27th.

 

What would be the biggest challenge for a woman from Regency...

RUDE AWAKENINGS to be published in the UK

The good folks of Bloomsbury UK, who have just launched the paperback of CONFESSIONS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT, will also be publishing RUDE AWAKENINGS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT.

And I just want to be all gushingly American about it. Okay, I'll settle for Mrs. Bennet: "Good gracious! ...What will become of me. I shall go distracted."

[Bloomsbury's logo. Very cool.:]

NORTHANGER ABBEY, Twitter Version, Chapter 15

Time for another recap of NORTHANGER ABBEY tweets. When last we left our fair heroine, she had finally taken the long-anticipated country walk with Eleanor and Henry Tilney (sigh).

And now, fresh from her triumph on Beechen Cliff, here is Catherine in Chapter 15 of Jane Austen's NORTHANGER ABBEY:

Soon
Catherine receives the delightful news that she & Isabella are to be
sisters--Isabella & James are engaged!

Isabella says
Catherine "will be so infinitely dearer...

CONFESSIONS is now in paperback in the UK

AND it got reviewed in The Independent.  Bloomsbury, you rock!

What You Don't Know Can Help You

Check out my guest post on the wonderful blog, Journeys in Ink, where I talk about how to use what you don't know to go from the state of being blocked to the state of flow.

RUDE AWAKENINGS out in paperback April 27

Don't you love the new cover?

NORTHANGER ABBEY, Twitter Version, Chapters 13-14

When last we left Catherine, she was "one of the happiest creatures in the world," having assured Henry Tilney that nothing less than being abducted by the evil John Thorpe could have prevented her from keeping her engagement of going for a country walk with Henry and his sister Eleanor.

 

[JJ Feild and Felicity Jones in the 2007 film adaptation of Jane Austen's NORTHANGER ABBEY:]

CHAPTER 13: 

James & the Thorpes try to guilt Catherine into another...