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November 11, 2012
The Things that Really Matter–
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things that Really Matter by William Deresiewicz is a wonderful overview of the depth of Jane Austen’s genius presented in the unique form of a literary analysis cum diary. I dearly wish I had read it before I met Bill in August 2012 in at the Decatur Book Festival. I’d have loved to discuss any number of his insights and explore further some of his conclusions. This “study” of Austen and Peter Leithart’s Miniat...
September 5, 2012
Austen & Aidan in Atlanta…well, close.
Reading from Young Master Darcy
at the Decatur Book Festival
It was “Welcome to HOTlanta” from more than one native as the Austen authors took shelter under tents that reflected the sun but little of the 98 degree heat. I am happy to report that we were well furnished with traditional Southern self-actuated cooling devices, otherwise known as hand fans, that we elegantly wafted back and forth to counter the “glow” that no real lady ever condescends to acknowledge. Yeah… Well, we did have one su...
August 30, 2012
Readin’ and Writin’ at the Festival
If you can get to the Decatur Book Festival, I’d love to meet you!
I’ll be in the JASNA tents, #101-103.
Reading from my books: Saturday at 2:45/Sunday between 1 & 2.
Writing my name in books and talking Austen: Saturday 11:15 – 12:30, 3:00 – 5:20/Sunday 12 – 1, 2 – 4
August 25, 2012
Meet Me in Decatur!
It’s less than a week until the Decatur Book Festival near my former home of Atlanta, Georgia. The festival sounds wonderfully exciting, and the good people of the Jane Austen Society of North America-Georgia chapter have gone to extraordinary lengths to bring Jane to the Festival. The even attracts 100,000 annually and, although not all are Austen lovers, I imagine that more readers will be exposed to Austen and her literary progeny at one time than ever before.
A book festival–what a wonderf...
July 31, 2012
A Clear Vision
O God of Earth and Altar
O God of earth and altar,
Bow down and hear our cry,
Our earthly rulers falter.
Our people drift and die;
The walls of gold entomb us,
The swords of scorn divide;
Take not Thy thunder from us;
But take away our pride.
From all that terror teaches,
From lies of tongue and pen,
From all the easy speeches
That comfort cruel men;
From sale and profanation
Of honor and the sword;
From sleep and from damnation,
Deliver us, good Lord.
Tie in a living tether,
The prince and priest and thrall;
B...
May 19, 2012
But Will He Be Approved?
Chase Bank invitation to Mr Frederick Wentworth to apply for a credit card
Someone, somewhere is very confused. No, Frederick Wentworth is NOT employed at Wytherngate Press, although he is a very busy man within the novels the Press publishes. Or is it that author Susan Kaye has put so much blood, sweat, and tears into bringing Capt. Wentworth to life, that he actually has come to life and is using the Press as his forwarding address? Could he be desperately trying to set up a life in 21st cen...
May 1, 2012
May Sale for Mothers and Others
Mercy's Embrace; Book 1
Wytherngate Press has announced a May Sale on Laura Hile’s series Mercy’s Embrace and Susan Kaye’s wonderful Frederick Wentworth, Captain series.
If you scurry over to the Press (www.wytherngatepress.com), you can avail yourself of a price cut of $3.50 for each volume or $11 each. For eBooks, go directly to Amazon or Barnes and Noble where those versions are on sale for $4.99 – $5.99 each.
Laura is the featured writer this month at Austenprose (www.austenprose.com) Don’t...
January 12, 2012
A Jane Austen Devotional?
I came across the publishing announcement for A Jane Austen Devotional yesterday as I was paging through the new Christian titles for January and February sent out by a book catalog for stores and libraries. Two thoughts occurred simultaneously: "Oh, how interesting!" and "O-o-h, why didn't I think of that?" Austen's wonderful novels are nothing if not studies of character. For those with eyes to see, the unspoken standard by which her characters morally stand or fall is that which she...
January 7, 2012
Still Making Waves
What a wonderful and deeply gratifying surprise to find Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman highlighted in a Library Journal article this week reviewing P.D. James's new mystery Death Comes to Pemberley!
Aidan, 
Pamela. An Assembly Such as This: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman. Touchstone: S. & S. 2006. 288p. ISBN 9780743291347. pap. $14. Aidan, Pamela. Duty and Desire: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman. Touchstone: S. & S. 2006. 320p. ISBN 9780743291361. pap. $14. Aidan, Pamela. These...
December 20, 2011
Christmas at Pemberley 1797
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It's Christmas 1797. Darcy and his cousins Richard and D'Arcy Fitzwilliam have been given reluctant permission to stage a Christmas farce in hopes of cheering Lady Anne.
–An excerpt from Young Master Darcy: A Lesson in Honour.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
–Pamela Aidan
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"The doors are closed; they're all inside!" Richard reported back from his post at the stairs. Earlier, they had raided the attic trunks for costumes, and Richard, as Lord Misrule, was tricked out in ...
