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Sourcebooks last minute Holiday Gift offer

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  Sourcebooks has announced a last-minute discount on Austen-inspired fiction just in time for those presents you still haven’t bought, or as a special treat as you relax this Christmas. Among the novels discounted a whopping 25% are Austen Authors Sharon Lathan ,  Abigail Reynolds, Jane Odiwe , Susan Adriani , Monica Fairview , Jack Caldwell, Mary Lydon Simonsen , C. Allyn Pierson, Nina Benneton and several others including Amanda Grange. You have to purchase through their Discover A New Love site and enter the promotion code AUSTEN when checking out to get your discount. You don't need to be a member and the discount is good through Dec. 31. Click here to go to Sourcebooks.

Austen Authors Novels

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Good news. If you’ve been thinking of picking up one of these Austen Authors novels but were put off  by the hefty price tag, our publisher Sourcebooks has agreed to bring down the price of the e-books down for a short time. They're now on sale now for a fraction of the usual price, so this is your chance to try one or several authors you haven’t tried before. And if you like them, don’t forget to click the Like button on Amazon or even write a short review to help people know about your favorites. The Truth About Mr. Darcy by Susan Adriani The Darcys and the Bingleys by Marsha Altman Compulsively Mr. Darcy by Nina Benneton Mrs. Darcy’s Dilemma by Diana Birchall The Three Colonels by Jack Caldwell The Darcy Cousins by Monica Fairview Darcy's Decision by Maria Grace Miss Darcy Falls in Love by Sharon Lathan Mr. Darcy’s Little Sister by C Allyn Pierson What Would Mr. Darcy Do? by Abigail Reynolds Fitzwilliam Darcy, Rock Star by Heather Lynn Ri

Making Sport for Our Neighbors? Gossip and Jane Austen

Making Sport for Our Neighbors? Gossip and Jane Austen

Jane Austen’s Rogues: An Austenesque Extravaganza Event

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It’s Travelling Tuesday on Austenesque Extravaganza , and here you are on one of the three stops you will be taking on your journey. On any Regency-era journey, you’ll find it essential to halt at inns along the way to exchange your horses and partake of refreshments. On this particular journey, you will be partaking in a refreshing exchange of opinions regarding the nature of Jane Austen’s Rogues. Your three inns today are The Birchall , The Adams and The Fairview. With clearly premeditated planning, some Rogues have caused a boisterous altercation at each of the three inns. Hopefully the altercations will be dealt with quickly or we will need to request the intervention of our kind landlady Meredith of Austenesque Reviews . Meanwhile, to assess the situation, we have asked one of our innkeepers, a Ms. Alexa Adams , the Authoress of a volume entitled First Impressions: A Tale of Less Pride and Prejudice to provide us with her impressions of the afore-mentioned Rogues in t

Downton Abbey Series 3 has started!

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The long-awaited moment has arrived. Series 3 of Downton Abbey is here!   My verdict on the first episode?   Hard to talk about it without adding spoilers, but I can summarize it by saying that it's off to a good start. Enough tension to keep you interested, a moment that brought a tear to my eye, and some great dynamics with Shirley Maclain entering the frey, the Dowager holding her own, and Matthew's mother putting up a good fight. Overall I'd give it **** stars, mainly because it took me a few minutes to get back into it. Other than that, a familiar, comfortable thing to watch, with the usual wonderful cast and everyone still in character. Looking forward to more!   

Austenesque Extravaganza coming up!

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  Austenesque Extravaganza Master Schedule A whole month celebrating Jane Austen, Jane Austen sequels, films, and all the things you enjoyed. I'll be appearing on September 18th for a discussion with authors Diana Birchells and Alexa Adams on The Rewards of Rogues in Austen. Looking forward to seeing you there!  

London 2012 Olympics Over

So very sad to say goodbye to the London 2012 Olympics. I loved every moment. Many thanks to the brilliant athletes out there from all over the world. I’ll still be catching up on several events on my BBC i-player, though, so it’s not completely over yet. And I have tickets for the Paralympics. Hurray!

Jane Austen and the Red House

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I'm blogging today at Austen Authors. I follow in the footsteps of the young Jane Austen when she goes to visit her uncle Frank. To learn more about the story of the pictures below, go to Walking with Austen: Sevenoaks and the Red House . The pictures below are some extra pictures I decided to put up here.

Cast the Next Adaptation of Pride & Prejudice

Cast the Next Adaptation of Pride & Prejudice Who would you cast in the new adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. A fun poll on Austen Authors.

The Other Mr. Darcy featured

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I'm very happy to say that The Other Mr. Darcy  is now being featured on Austenticity , a blog by fellow Austen Author Sally Smith O'Rourke. Please drop by her blog to say hello and see pictures of different rooms in Chawton as well as to hear music Jane Austen may have played. Sally is the author of The Man Who Loved Jane Austen .

Learning to Manage Online

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This weekend I attended a very informative talk by Talli Roland at SE Chapter of the Romantic Novelist’s Association. She talked about marketing our books online, and suggested several ways we could reach out to our readers. A lot of the things she mentioned I already knew (in general), since I’m on several online social networks and have had this blog for a while, but I learned a lot anyway. I came away scratching my head (not because I have lice, I assure you). According to Talli, she spends about ten minutes on social networks for every two hours that she writes. Now that’s discipline! Once I get into facebook and twitter I tend to forget myself and scroll through all the messages and read up on what my friends have been doing, and before I know it an hour has passed and I haven’t gotten any writing done. Consequently, I stay away from the media because I don’t seem to be able to reconcile the two. Consequently, the key two things I learned from Talli’s talk are not necessarily wha