Reminder: I will be at the Jane Austen Event at the Town & Country Barnes & Noble in Houston on Saturday. I’ve heard there will be scones, so you have to come and join me, Alyssa Goodnight and Jennifer Ziegler. We’ll be signing books and chatting about Jane Austen and our favorite books and adaptations. [...]
Thanks to Amanda Cawthon for another wonderful meetup at the Pflugerville Community Library. I enjoyed chatting with April Kihlstrom and Jane Myers Perrine and the romance fans who came to visit. I enjoyed talking about the book business with these lovely and seasoned authors who have many books to their name. There was also a [...]
Mansfield Park is Jane Austen’s least-popular novel. I recently re-read it, and I think it has this undeserved rap because of one major misconception, that it’s a romance. It’s most emphatically not. And read with that understanding in mind, I had a new appreciation for this work. I’ve come to love Austen less for the [...]
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